Topic: No, I will not fix your computer. (Read 65304 times)

Mongrel · « **Reply #420 on:** April 13, 2011, 09:51:54 AM »

Did you back your stuff up? (nag nag nag)

If the hard drive is removable from the enclosure, try another enclosure.

teg · « **Reply #421 on:** April 13, 2011, 06:02:14 PM »

That IS my backup! :c

I just got this computer a few days ago so I hadn't gotten around to transferring everything yet.
As far as I can tell it has something to do with sleep mode. It seems to not work if it's been connected during sleep mode and work fine if I connect it afterwards, but not if those two situations contradict (so I can't just unplug and replug).

Actually...

...

FIXED IIIIIT!

If I unplug the HDD itself from the wall outlet and then re-plug it, it works fine.

Yaaaaaaaaay

Joxam · « **Reply #422 on:** April 14, 2011, 12:52:11 AM »

Its probably something to do with it not shutting down properly before you unplug it from usb.

Burrito Al Pastor · « **Reply #423 on:** April 20, 2011, 05:21:05 PM »

So I had this old secondary drive, which I had mapped to D:, that I wanted to wipe so I could start using it for things, but it had an old Windows install on it and so Windows was giving me shit about formatting it. So I pressed some buttons at startup, got to a recovery menu where I could open the console, and told it to format D: there.

Turns out there's a thing where that's in a magical superspace where all your disc drive letters are incremented by one.

Fortunately, my old C: drive is a terabyte, so it was only 20% done before I realized something was amiss; in any case, I'm now running off my old drive, now properly wiped by the Windows installer, and I get a fun and exciting project now of learning about the magical world of data recovery.

In any case, now that I'm working with a clean slate (Windows 7 64), what's the current best-in-slot plugin for Firefox for reading PDFs? Are there any other applications or tools I should try to use that will make my life easier?

Also, anybody know anything about solid state drives? I did a buttload of research late last year, but I haven't looked at things since then - are there any shiny new market leaders, or should I just go reconstruct my conclusions from last year and buy that?

Mongrel · « **Reply #424 on:** April 20, 2011, 07:20:41 PM »

I use Foxit for .PDFs, seems to work alright now that the FF plugin actually functions.

Ziiro · « **Reply #425 on:** May 23, 2011, 06:41:16 PM »

My god. The U2311H is an amazing monitor. I bought it last week when it was on sale for $250.

The colors. The brightness. Oh god, what have I been missing.

TA · « **Reply #426 on:** May 26, 2011, 11:23:20 AM »

When swapping out video cards, what is the preferred driver cleaner program?

Aintaer · « **Reply #427 on:** May 26, 2011, 02:22:56 PM »

Control Panel > Uninstall a Program

Thad · « **Reply #428 on:** June 03, 2011, 09:13:16 PM »

So while my old Radeon 2600XT has gotten me through the past 3 years and is good enough to run Mass Effect 2 at 1920x1200 with low graphics settings, I think it's about time for a new video card. (Witcher 2 is part of the reason for this but I'm not going to spend hundreds of dollars for just one game; a new graphics card will of course make all the games I've bought in the last 5 years look prettier too. And possibly provide a better user experience for day-to-day shit, for reasons I will detail below.)

So anyway. I got me a Mac Pro back in Aught Seven, because hey, Intel, and PCIE, and all that stuff, and Apple was supposed to finally be compatible and upgradeable and all that stuff. Well, turns out it's not, mostly because EFI adoption has taken a lot longer to catch on in the PC world than I anticipated. So I've got four choices:

Buy an official Mac-compatible card.
Pros:

Will work in my computer with no dickery, hackery, or pagan rituals required.

Cons:

Apple Tax
Tiny Selection

Buy a card that isn't Mac-compatible.
Pros:

Will run just fine in Windows and Linux
It's not like I boot to OSX that often anyway

Cons:

I still occasionally like to use my Mac as a Mac.

Buy a PC ATI card and flash the BIOS.
Pros:

Simple
Elegant
Thoroughly documented
Will provide me geek satisfaction

Cons:

Won't be able to see EFI boot screen
I'm primarily a Linux user and ATI's Linux drivers fucking suck.

So that leaves the least elegant option but the one I am currently leaning toward:

Buy a PC nVidia card and use driver injection.
Starting with cons on this one, because they're big but the pros mitigate them somewhat.
Cons:

PC nVidia cards can't be flashed with Mac firmware like ATI's can. If I want to boot to OSX I'm going to need to have a second graphics card in there just to boot far enough to load the drivers for the new card.
GTX 4XX cards do not perform to spec under OSX; they effectively function as GTX 285's.
There are some reports of general instability and weirdness with Fermi cards under OSX.

Pros:

Good Linux driver support.
If I don't use it for driver injection, the 7300GT that came with the computer will just sit somewhere collecting dust anyway.
A GTX 285 is still better than the card I've got in there now, and incidentally costs more than a GTX 460 or 470.

So I'm leaning toward the 460/470 range there. Will think it over for a bit; I don't intend to buy right away as my newfound disposable income has not caused me to forget that I've been unemployed for the past five months and could find myself back in that position at any time. Summer Is Coming.

sei · « **Reply #429 on:** June 04, 2011, 11:06:14 AM »

Quote

Summer Is Coming.

This is where GRRM rises from his productivity grave and finishes the remaining books at a solid clip, right?

Thad · « **Reply #430 on:** June 04, 2011, 09:46:58 PM »

I think GRRM is substantially less worried about having to put aside money to pay the power bill than TRRB.

Anyway. Finally got myself a few more gigs of RAM. Haven't noticed any performance boosts just yet but Windows and Linux/X/KDE seem perfectly happy setting aside 2GB just standing still.

(X and Firefox still like to randomly shoot up to 60% CPU usage between the two of them, even when I've got fuck-all open in them. I think this is a product of ATI's Linux drivers, which is one more reason I would very much like to get a new nVidia card.)

Defenestration · « **Reply #431 on:** June 15, 2011, 03:19:13 PM »

I just made a new Windows 7 installation to go from 32 to 64. I also backed up everything, and double and triple checked like a good boy. Except I forgot one thing; I have no idea what the actual model of my wireless networking card is, so I don't know what driver to get to make the damn thing work. I'm about to open it back up, as I'm sure it's pasted on the card with a sticker, but man I feel dumb.

Also, more hardware sites should have the autodetect thing that nVidia does so it will just tell you what drivers you need.

Ziiro · « **Reply #432 on:** June 15, 2011, 03:26:26 PM »

W7 64 didn't autodetect the thing and the brand? What kind of crap wireless card are you using there?

Defenestration · « **Reply #433 on:** June 15, 2011, 03:27:22 PM »

Well, I'm pretty sure it's a Linksys, but I'll know for certain in a minute.

Edit: Got that resolved, but now apparently my microphone port does not exist.

Lottel · « **Reply #434 on:** June 16, 2011, 07:46:09 AM »

I'm not sure what's going on but my mouse's batteries died. I put in new batteries and it said "USB Device not recognized." I went through the usual steps of unplug it/replug it, restart, etc. And it stopped recognizing it entirely. Ok. Whatever. I'll figure it out eventually.

Now it's unplugged. No USB things are plugged in at all. But every 5-10 minutes I get either the "USB Device not recognized" message or the USB Device recognized windows sound.

Now ideally, I'd like to get my mouse working but I really just want my computer to stop spamming me with messages with Ghost USB devices.

And yeah. I went to the maker's website and tried to redownload the drivers. But since it's windows 7, they don't carry drivers for it saying "The mouse will automatically work no matter what on Windows 7, chumps." Downloaded windows' newest USB drivers too.

Aintaer · « **Reply #435 on:** June 16, 2011, 09:42:07 AM »

Idea: your USB hub is fried.

Thad · « **Reply #436 on:** June 16, 2011, 03:34:01 PM »

...apparently they've gotten the GTX 570 working in the latest Developer Preview of Lion, so I'm thinking 560 instead of 470 given that the former benchmarks a bit better, uses less power, and costs about the same.

The smart thing for me to do is wait for the release of Lion next month. I probably have the self control to do so.

Niku · « **Reply #437 on:** June 17, 2011, 04:13:39 AM »

wake up, internet's down

unplug router and modem, check cables, flushdns, try static dns, still can't do anything

realize i bumped the TURN OFF ALL INTERNETS button on top of the router while unplugging things after about half an hour

feel like a tard

Royal☭ · « **Reply #438 on:** June 17, 2011, 05:14:51 AM »

Wh... why does that button exist?

Niku · « **Reply #439 on:** June 17, 2011, 01:43:27 PM »

i have no idea it is just like a button on top of the router that turns off all of the signals and is very easily depressed

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