Topic: No, I will not fix your computer. (Read 65402 times)

McDohl · « **Reply #260 on:** December 21, 2009, 08:12:26 PM »

Rocketfish!!

...wait a second.

THIS WOULD GIVE US A CLEAR, FULL EXPERIENCE OF THE HORROR OF SATURN'S TRUE VOICE ON TF2, AND CAUSE US TO CEASE TO EXIST.

Walker · « **Reply #261 on:** January 02, 2010, 12:36:20 PM »

So like, for the last few weeks my internet's been pretty shit. The last week and a half it's been disconnecting constantly every five minutes or so.

I figured that it might be the modem, so I go on a hunt for a new DSL modem/router combo with wireless. It turns out nobody in TOWN has any DSL modems, let alone wireless router combos.

For lack of a better option I move the modem out to the kitchen phoneline, since it always worked well in there... but I discover a DSL/phone splitter on the modem line that I totally forgot about. I'm wondering if that might've been the culprit, since it's been on there over a year now. Qwest claims the filters need to be changed pretty regularly and a bad one on ANY phone jack in your house can cause problems.

Defenestration · « **Reply #262 on:** January 03, 2010, 03:24:03 PM »

http://www.ex-parrot.com/pete/upside-down-ternet.html Learned about this from a friend today. It is amazing, and I giggle to think about it.

Miss Cat Ears · « **Reply #263 on:** February 15, 2010, 06:54:23 AM »

So my dad's been getting up in the middle of the night for the past couple weeks to get some passwords from people in his company on the other side of the world. English is not their first language, and the other day he was told that the next character was a lower-case dash.

Lady Duke · « **Reply #264 on:** February 16, 2010, 05:51:45 PM »

I'm finally sending my laptop back to dell. They are replacing the video card and motherboard most probably. I am very excited that soon I can play games again at more than 12 fps :D :D :D

Beat Bandit · « **Reply #265 on:** February 18, 2010, 11:11:49 PM »

Ok, I complained about this a while back, and just tried again today, with the same damn problems repeating themselves.

Dragon Age: Origins will not run on my computer. At a certain point my game will lock up, leading to various, horrible results. For those who know the game, it's in Ostagar, for those who really know the game, it always seems to first happen when I enter the area where the priest is on stage giving a speech. Once it happens though, it seems any save I load anywhere inside Ostagar, or once I get there from a save in the starting area will trigger it.

Anyway! I always get critical system failure. Even with auto-reboot on, sometimes I just get an "analog out of range" prompt and the monitor goes black. More recently I started getting "processing self image setting", which is new to me.

I have DA fully patched, and all the DLC.

I'm running Vista 64bit with service pack 2.
An AMD Phenom 9600 Quad-core at 2.30 GHz with 4gigs of RAM.
ATI Radeon HD 3800 Series video card.

I know my display and monitor drivers are completely up to date, and I should be running DirectX 9 alongside 10, but dxdiag doesn't seem to want to tell me. Outside of that I'm completely lost.

Frocto · « **Reply #266 on:** April 22, 2010, 11:04:27 PM »

Hello everyone!

New problem with my computer, and it is of an EXTREMELY embarrassing nature! Please feel free to laugh it up at my expense.

So whenever I boot my computer up, a uh certain swf object involving a certain ox-horned capcom chinese detective also loads, which means I cannot reboot in polite company ever. It is located at file:///C:/Users/Frocto/AppData/Local/Temp/ and I went there and deleted the object and it has just magically reappeared next time I restarted.

THIS WOULD NOT BE SUCH AN ISSUE IF CLOSING MY LID ON WINDOWS 7 DID NOT HAVE A 50% OR SO CHANCE OF FUCKING THE SCREEN UP

I assume I need to edit the registry to fix it, but I'd have no idea where to start. Anyone want to help?

Brentai · « **Reply #267 on:** April 22, 2010, 11:33:37 PM »

How the hell do you even

Well, try looking at your Programs>Startup (if your hacker is incredibly lazy) first, and then run msconfig and see if you can find anything that is obviously not a startup program. THEN worry about hacking the goddam registry.

Also if it's definitely an SWF maybe uninstall the Flash Player for a bit and try deleting it again, you never know.

seriously what

Lottel · « **Reply #268 on:** April 22, 2010, 11:44:10 PM »

Or just search for the file and delete it?
I mean, you've must have seen it enough that it's boring, right?

Frocto · « **Reply #269 on:** April 23, 2010, 12:42:44 AM »

Well, it was running a program in my startup that I disabled, then tried to delete it. It kept popping back up again like magic. Went and disabled the SECOND program it was running in my startup and deleted it again!

Thanks, Brentai, when Earth becomes inhospitable due to pollution, mankind will be forced to settle on a celestial body of similar size and mass: your god-like tumescence.

Brentai · « **Reply #270 on:** April 23, 2010, 09:55:17 AM »

Man don't put mankind on my dick you're just gonna have aliens trying to invade my dick all the time.

Wait

Nevermind this is ok.

Frocto · « **Reply #271 on:** August 03, 2010, 02:40:14 AM »

It seems like if I leave money in Paypal, it gradually just gets depleted by fees. Is this right?

Mongrel · « **Reply #272 on:** August 03, 2010, 03:03:54 AM »

Er... only if you're transferring money. PayPal should only be charging transaction-based fees.

Mongrel · « **Reply #273 on:** August 04, 2010, 04:16:35 PM »

Hey, Mongrel's silly old woman here.

I've been having occasions where my display freezes/bluescreens during Team Fortress 2 and now Photoshop CS. I was looking online at help forums. They indicated that I should probably update my graphics drivers from ATI.

This morning I tried to update/repair the graphics drivers for my Sapphire Radeon 5770 x2 CrossFire setup (using the ATI uninstall/repair wizard). About a third of the way through the repair, the display froze and I had to hard power off.

Since then, I've tried to start up several times, but no display at all. I've tried to start up windows in safe mode, but still no display, not even a BIOS screen. Everything else seems to be booting correctly: LED's come on, fans are spinning, caps and num lock toggle properly, HDD light behaves as normal, no BIOS beeps (as per normal).

At this point I haven't yet done any poking around with the hardware. I wanted to get your suggestions and help first before I made any drastic changes like resetting the cmos jumper or reinstalling windows.

My system:

Intel Core i7 - 920
ASUS P6T-SE
RAM: OCZ 6 GB DDR3 - 1066 MHz
GPU: 2x Sapphire Radeon 5770 1Gb GDDR5 w/ CrossFire
HDD: WD Caviar Green 1.5 Tb (1 Tb partition and a 500 GB system partition)
PSU: Antec TP-750w 25A/4x12V
Case: Antec Twelve Hundred
OS: Windows 7 Pro 64bit
Last operational version of graphics driver: Catalyst Control Centre 10.2 for Win 7 64 + DirectX 11

Last temperatures via GPU-Z as of last Sat:

Card 1: Fan speed 35% Temp range 57-63 degrees C after 30 minutes of playing TF2 on full graphics settings on a 32-man server with water (2fort clone)

Card 2: Fan speed N/A Temp range 57-61 degrees C same settings (probably idle most of the time)

I'd like to know if the bluescreens and display freezes are related. I'd like to make sure I didn't damage my gpu's with a corrupted repair of the driver files. My mobo does NOT have integrated graphics so there is no backup option and no other place to plug in my monitor.

Beat Bandit · « **Reply #274 on:** August 04, 2010, 06:15:32 PM »

There's probably a classier way to do it, but I had some similar problems and this worked for me:

1) Download the latest ATI drivers. Don't get the catalyst control center though. That thing sucks.

2) Uninstall all previous drivers, then run Driver Sweeper to really scrub the hell out of it.

3) Reset your compy and boot into safe mode, install the drivers.

4) Reboot into normal mode and download ATITool.

5) Underclock to about 7-10% below normal speeds. (This may only have been for the HD 38xx series but it worked wonders for me).

Mongrel · « **Reply #275 on:** August 04, 2010, 06:33:11 PM »

Question: How does she get over the hump of "Nothing displays at all. When you attempt to go to Safe Mode, there's still nothing on the display." (So in theory she *might* be in Safe Mode, but would never be able to tell).

Like, even if she tried to plug in another screen, it wouldn't matter because nothing is visible right now. Cards are not fried from what we can tell (yes the screen is plugged in and on, ha ha).

TA · « **Reply #276 on:** August 04, 2010, 06:48:34 PM »

If you're not getting display even in BIOS or the initial boot or anything like that, then it's a lot more fucked than just drivers. Try another monitor. If that doesn't work, it's probably something fucked in the graphics card, and you're gonna need to start swapping parts around to do a proper diagnostic. I have no idea how Crossfire works though so who even knows if that advice is applicable, but it's worth trying.

Do you do anything to login when you first boot, normally? Like a username/password or anything? If not - if you normally turn the computer on and then after a few minutes you're sitting at your desktop - then try letting enough time pass that it should have loaded all the way, and then open a music file or something from the start menu using the keyboard, just to see if it's actually loading all the way behind that blank screen.

Mongrel · « **Reply #277 on:** August 04, 2010, 07:07:40 PM »

No login, even though I did set a password for the admin account (which was the last account I was using when the driver corrupt crash happened). So usually just boot to desktop.

I'm not sure I could find a music file surfing blind with just alt-key commands.

I will try swapping a different monitor if I can find someone who has one to spare for three minutes. One thing I haven't tried is removing the crossfire and testing each graphics card individually in the first PCIe slot.

TA · « **Reply #278 on:** August 04, 2010, 07:27:52 PM »

well, "windows key + r" gets you a run command. then just type in the file path of wherever you think there should be an audio file. There's one at c:\windows\media\onestop.mid if nothing else.

Mongrel · « **Reply #279 on:** August 04, 2010, 08:42:13 PM »

Quote from: Fowl on August 04, 2010, 06:15:32 PM

There's probably a classier way to do it, but I had some similar problems and this worked for me:

1) Download the latest ATI drivers. Don't get the catalyst control center though. That thing sucks.

2) Uninstall all previous drivers, then run Driver Sweeper to really scrub the hell out of it.

3) Reset your compy and boot into safe mode, install the drivers.

4) Reboot into normal mode and download ATITool.

5) Underclock to about 7-10% below normal speeds. (This may only have been for the HD 38xx series but it worked wonders for me).

Done and done. Couldn't avoid getting the CCC but will run the ATITool tomorrow morning (it's very late here).

I now have my monitor up and running as before. Blender 2.49 renders just fine without a problem. Will try other progs/games tomorrow.

Thanks for everyone's help so far, there's a lot of misleading info out on the tech forums and you guys collectively saved me perhaps another ten hours of searching and failing.

Ta-ta for now, passing the kb back to mongrel...

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