Yeah this sounded right so I checked my settings, this is a ss of how they are currently set, this ss is taken via logmein, I'm assuming when I go home later, I should opt to turn off scaling, "No scaling"? Thanks.
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Yeah this sounded right so I checked my settings, this is a ss of how they are currently set, this ss is taken via logmein, I'm assuming when I go home later, I should opt to turn off scaling, "No scaling"? Thanks.
OK, so leaving the scaling option as it is, but change the "Perform on" to GPU? Got it. Will let you know later, thanks again.
OK, after setting up my PC after a HDD crash (and encountering some issues which made it impossible to reset it from a system image), I'm trying to access my backup manually. It's VHD files, and I can add those as virtual machines (or whatever, I'm a noob).
Now the main question:
I can access all public folders. I CANNOT, however, access any folders that need admin rights. It asks me if I want to continue, I get no error message, but they never open.
Anything I can do about it?
Now the main question:
I can access all public folders. I CANNOT, however, access any folders that need admin rights. It asks me if I want to continue, I get no error message, but they never open.
Anything I can do about it?
Hey I tried "Perform on GPU" for the Sony, as well as turning off scaling altogether, on one and on both displays, I tried having my TV in Game Mode and not, either way it had the same problem. I tried using one display at a time, instead of duplicate or cloned mode, that did not work. Also my TV is set to Full Pixel, and all other settings seem normal from my limited knowledge of HDTV settings.
ie.
TV
v.
Monitor
Thanks for any help.
I should note, that I'm using an inexpensive, 15ft HDMI cable, not sure if that's the problem.
Also, my desktop looks fine, the text on GAF is much smaller than the title menu of Skyrim, the problem only seems to happen in games...this was taken from my TV
SabinFigaro
Member
Calling Tech Support,
My parents' computer that I built 7 or 8 years ago wouldn't boot up this past week. Nothing out of the ordinary was done the day before, merely using e-mail and printing recipes.
I had the chance to quickly check it out. It boots to the Windows Recovery Screen, but does not boot any further, regardless of option chosen. I figured, what the hell, just reformat. Well, Windows Recovery Console does not load the command prompt, and a full reformat was stuck on 2% for hours until this lovely message appeared. I was able to delete the partition, but to no avail.
Driver Unloaded Without Cancelling Pending Operations
Problem: partmgr.sys
So, no new hardware has been installed in quite some time. My gut feeling is that the harddrive failed, but I could be completely off. As I built it a loooong time ago, I don't remember the exact specs, but here's something close:
Windows XP3
ASUS Board
Pentium 4 HT
2 GB RAM (1 GB DDR2 x2)
GeForce4 Ti4600
Seagate 250 GB HD
Thoughts? Just replace the harddrive, or is something more sinister at play?
My parents' computer that I built 7 or 8 years ago wouldn't boot up this past week. Nothing out of the ordinary was done the day before, merely using e-mail and printing recipes.
I had the chance to quickly check it out. It boots to the Windows Recovery Screen, but does not boot any further, regardless of option chosen. I figured, what the hell, just reformat. Well, Windows Recovery Console does not load the command prompt, and a full reformat was stuck on 2% for hours until this lovely message appeared. I was able to delete the partition, but to no avail.
Driver Unloaded Without Cancelling Pending Operations
Problem: partmgr.sys
So, no new hardware has been installed in quite some time. My gut feeling is that the harddrive failed, but I could be completely off. As I built it a loooong time ago, I don't remember the exact specs, but here's something close:
Windows XP3
ASUS Board
Pentium 4 HT
2 GB RAM (1 GB DDR2 x2)
GeForce4 Ti4600
Seagate 250 GB HD
Thoughts? Just replace the harddrive, or is something more sinister at play?
weekend_warrior
Banned
I'm having an issue with one of the USB ports on my computer (A Lenovo laptop). For a while now the sync on my USB mouse that I plug into it would drop frequently, sometimes when I closed the lid and came back, sometimes in the middle of using it. Then yesterday it stops working entirely. The cordless mouse wont work, the corded keyboard that works in the USB port right next to it won't work, but my ipod WILL work and sync when connected. Now I have my mouse plugged into another USB port (one that's always "hot"), and I haven't had any desync issues whatsoever. But I'm wondering what I can do to get this other port to work right.
OK I think I mostly got it, I had to change a few settings.
1)Set Desktop to No Scaling
2)Set Sony to Do not report for "Select the desktop resize mode reported to the display:"
3)Under "Adjust Color settings" for the Sony TV, I set "Content type reported to display" as Full-Screen videos
These are not my own ideas, I found it here
http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=221565
Thanks for your help it got me in the right direction. It is still not 100% perfect, the title screen has strange artifacting that is not present when in the main game (Skyrim). I'll have to try other games to see what happens, but so far a 100% improvement over my scaling problem.
I doubt I am. These are pretty old cables, how can I tell, and will they allow more fastness?
Yeah, hard drive death.
sounds like something is in 100Mbps mode, if you account for overhead, 8MBps sounds about right. Could be the cable, just buy a new one.
Help, GAF!
I'm posting this here to get a wider net. Maybe someone here has a good idea for me?
The initial thread I posted on a different forum is here:
http://www.techsupportforum.com/for...rtly-after-startup-sudden-problem-650957.html
Unfortunately, my update did not receive a useful reply, and I'm stuck.
Here's a summary:
Crash reports are attached to the outside forum, if there's anyone who can read those.
I'm posting this here to get a wider net. Maybe someone here has a good idea for me?
The initial thread I posted on a different forum is here:
http://www.techsupportforum.com/for...rtly-after-startup-sudden-problem-650957.html
Unfortunately, my update did not receive a useful reply, and I'm stuck.
Here's a summary:
Crash reports are attached to the outside forum, if there's anyone who can read those.
I just realized I have some 100mbps devices on the switch. The entire switch will drop down to 100 right?
I know this is a 'cop-out' but do you have the ability to connect it by VGA and seeing how that works?
I have a Toshiba 1TB external hard drive. I think it just failed on me. When I plug it in, the LED light turns on and flashes, but I can't feel or hear the drive spinning.
Is this possible to be repaired? Or at least have the data recovered? I've never had a hard drive fail on me before.
The HD in question:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822149103
Is this possible to be repaired? Or at least have the data recovered? I've never had a hard drive fail on me before.
The HD in question:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822149103
systemfehler
Member
Never thought the day will come but I need help. I have 2 (seemingly) identical USB flash drives with 32GB capacity and USB 3.0 connection. They both are formatted NTFS and at a USB 2.0 port they both work like they should (speed, access time, general behavior) at the USB 3.0 port things are different. One drive does exactly what I expect it to do but faster than while at the USB 2.0 port. The other while accessing it from MS Explorer (Windows 7 64Bit) hangs and it takes up to 10 seconds to display the content or if I right-click it takes also a lot longer to display the drop down menu.
What I did so far:
Formatted the drive with Fat32, NTFS again, etc. which did not help. A check of the drive reported no errors (basicly writing the whole 32GB then reading and checking it again). I tested the speed (copied a 8GB file) which resulted in a average of 55MB/s (vendor says up to 70MB so that sounds right). I removed and then reinstalled the USB device, tried another notebook (also a W510). So far nothing was conclusive, the access time under Linux Mint was different (but this might be because Win7=SSD, Mint=HDD) and the write speed was on USB 2.0 level.
I somehow doubt that the drive is faulty but on the other side why does one drive work like a charm and the other does only via USB 2.0. Please help me
Kind regards!
What I did so far:
Formatted the drive with Fat32, NTFS again, etc. which did not help. A check of the drive reported no errors (basicly writing the whole 32GB then reading and checking it again). I tested the speed (copied a 8GB file) which resulted in a average of 55MB/s (vendor says up to 70MB so that sounds right). I removed and then reinstalled the USB device, tried another notebook (also a W510). So far nothing was conclusive, the access time under Linux Mint was different (but this might be because Win7=SSD, Mint=HDD) and the write speed was on USB 2.0 level.
I somehow doubt that the drive is faulty but on the other side why does one drive work like a charm and the other does only via USB 2.0. Please help me
Kind regards!
Last time this happened to me it was a actually a hard drive that was beginning to fail on me. Even though I never lost data, after what seemed like a random amount of time, but no less than a couple times a day I would get a BSOD and automatic restart. Hardware related BSODs are generally either memory failures or hard drive issues.
systematic
Unconfirmed Member
What SSD drive are you using? There was a bug with Crucial M4 drives that would cause blue screens regularly, which was fixed by a firmware update.
systemfehler
Member
I've got two SSD's ( 256GB and 64 GB) and 2 HDD's( 2 TB each).
Does anyone know how I can make the 64 GB a cache SSD? I've heard that you can do this with Intel RST but it doesn't even recognize my SSD's.
I would like to make use of the second SSD as efficient as possible but I don't know what to do at the moment. Can someone please help me?
256 GB is a Samsung SSD
64 GB is a Crucial M4 SSD
Does anyone know how I can make the 64 GB a cache SSD? I've heard that you can do this with Intel RST but it doesn't even recognize my SSD's.
I would like to make use of the second SSD as efficient as possible but I don't know what to do at the moment. Can someone please help me?
256 GB is a Samsung SSD
64 GB is a Crucial M4 SSD
indigo-cyclops
Member
Tech Support GAF:
So two days ago I started getting strange popup messages in Windows 7 about one of my backup/miscellaneous drives (500GB). Basically, this:
When I hit the expand arrow it tells me which drive, etc etc. Anyway, I'm not sure what's happened, and I managed to move the important information needed from it onto my laptop. Prior to this I defragmented, used SeaTools (DOS and windows, DOS issues abound) to do short tests. In DOS the program would essentially lock up if I tried to do anything, and in Windows I would get a failed message saying I need to repair sectors. I just used SeaTools to successfully write the drive to zero, and initilaized it on Acronis.
I really just want to know if there's anything I can do for this. I was still able to use it/write to it/read from it, and the message would only pop up sporadically. I was hoping there was a decent program out there I could use that could possibly repair any bad sectors? Windows doesn't seem to do anything using disk check, and I am not sure my Acronis program has anything like that (it just goes through Windows disk check).
Seagate ST3500418AS is the model.
tl;dr - hard drive failure message pops up randomly, need a program or advice on how to repair bad sectors
So two days ago I started getting strange popup messages in Windows 7 about one of my backup/miscellaneous drives (500GB). Basically, this:
When I hit the expand arrow it tells me which drive, etc etc. Anyway, I'm not sure what's happened, and I managed to move the important information needed from it onto my laptop. Prior to this I defragmented, used SeaTools (DOS and windows, DOS issues abound) to do short tests. In DOS the program would essentially lock up if I tried to do anything, and in Windows I would get a failed message saying I need to repair sectors. I just used SeaTools to successfully write the drive to zero, and initilaized it on Acronis.
I really just want to know if there's anything I can do for this. I was still able to use it/write to it/read from it, and the message would only pop up sporadically. I was hoping there was a decent program out there I could use that could possibly repair any bad sectors? Windows doesn't seem to do anything using disk check, and I am not sure my Acronis program has anything like that (it just goes through Windows disk check).
Seagate ST3500418AS is the model.
tl;dr - hard drive failure message pops up randomly, need a program or advice on how to repair bad sectors
make note of which drive letter(s) the corrupted drive is associated with, and in an elevated command prompt type in 'chkdsk DRIVELETTER: /r'
if you're asked to reboot, reboot. otherwise, make some coffee and sit back - this could take a while.
chkdsk can mark off bad sectors and prevent them from being written to in the future. if that's not working, the entire drive might be failing and should be replaced.
if you're asked to reboot, reboot. otherwise, make some coffee and sit back - this could take a while.
chkdsk can mark off bad sectors and prevent them from being written to in the future. if that's not working, the entire drive might be failing and should be replaced.
PumpkinPie
Banned
I have a problem with one of the USB ports on my laptop. Say I plug something into it, the port will switch off after two seconds (I know because the light on whatever device I'm using will suddenly go off). My other USB port is fine, and even when the first one switches off they both appear to be working correctly under 'device manager'.
Thanks.
Thanks.
indigo-cyclops
Member
Thank you, will do that.
iNvid02
Member
PumpkinPie
Banned
Thanks for that. I eventually found a few topics on Google saying that the model of laptop I have is borked and has no know fix :/
indigo-cyclops
Member
Well nothing seems to be happening; I keep getting "no problem sectors found" when I run CHKDSK, yet the message keeps popping up every 20 minutes or so. I tried SeaTools again; Fix All Long "passed", Short Test fails still.
Guess it's completely done, or else it would be working. Unless it's a hiccup in Windows 7.
Guess it's completely done, or else it would be working. Unless it's a hiccup in Windows 7.
Vanillalite
Ask me about the GAF Notebook
DBAN
I always use this before I get rid of hardware to either donate or sell or throw away or whatever.
indigo-cyclops
Member
Surprisingly my drive is still under warranty...guess I'll send it in.
that's odd. have you tried swapping SATA cables? perhaps hook it up to a different internal SATA port as well.
indigo-cyclops
Member
I will try this. I've stopped getting the message after a few formats, but I still get the Fail message when using SeaTools...
I'll check the cables and see if that may be the issue.
I'm having a slightly odd issue, or maybe it's not an issue at all I don't really know.
About 10 minutes after turning my PC on my wireless thing starts blinking fast, which it only does when I'm downloading/streaming/playing online but I can't find anything on the surface at least that's downloading. Also at the same time my cached RAM jumps from about 1300 to 2600mb.
Being the idiot that I am when it comes to PCs I immediately think something sinister is happening but I ran all the scans I have and nothing came up. Is there a way to check if something is downloading/uploading in the background?
edit: Hmm it seems to correct itself after a bit. This happened late last night too but I don't think I stayed up late enough to see it correct itself.
About 10 minutes after turning my PC on my wireless thing starts blinking fast, which it only does when I'm downloading/streaming/playing online but I can't find anything on the surface at least that's downloading. Also at the same time my cached RAM jumps from about 1300 to 2600mb.
Being the idiot that I am when it comes to PCs I immediately think something sinister is happening but I ran all the scans I have and nothing came up. Is there a way to check if something is downloading/uploading in the background?
edit: Hmm it seems to correct itself after a bit. This happened late last night too but I don't think I stayed up late enough to see it correct itself.
Windows 7 64.
sometimes SATA cables can go wonky for no reason. a few months back one of my drives would randomly flake out on a cold-start and spam a bunch of SMART errors. i thought the drive was dying at first, but after checking the error code online it seems that the issue could instead be a bad connection between the drive and the motherboard. i replaced the cable, double and triple checked that all my drives were seated properly, and have been error-free since. the 1TB drive i bought when i initially thought the drive was failing sits unused in a boxnext to me.
Best place to start tracking this down on Win7 is with the resource monitor
Found on the menu at Accessories\System tools (Although I always fire up task manager and start if from there).
Forsete
Member
Ok GAF
I have failed.
I am helping a colleague with his new laptop computer (Samsung RV515).
He said the thing was freezing all the time while surfing the net, I agreed to look at the laptop for him.
First thing when I tried it out. Indeed it freezes!
Using IE just surfing to Youtube made it freeze.
You can still move the mouse-pointer around but it has a the "loading" circle, so you cant click or activate anything.
I looked at a few things and couldn't figure it out.
He had already re-installed Windows 7 from the Backup disc which Samsung provided.
Anyway I decided to do another re-install from my clean version of Windows 7 which isnt filled up to the brims with trials and Samsung software.
Well everything was going fine, I started doing the updates from Microsoft, no freezes what-so-ever.
HOWEVER after just installing SP1 the thing froze (once again you can move the mouse around), and I was in Windows Update looking for further updates.
Restarted (hard reset, because you cant even call up the Task Manager with CTRL+ALT+DEL).. this time I launched IE9.. and fuck, just loading up Google.se it froze again.
Specs of the PC
AMD Dual Core-processor E-350 (1,6 GHz, 1 MB L2-cache)
AMD Radeon™ HD6470M
HDD 320GB SATAII 5400 rpm
4GB DDR3 1066MHz
AMD A50M Chipset
Windows 7 64-bit
Also I checked the RAM in both Memtest86 and the built in Win 7 thingy. No problems found.
Hardware or software related? I installed all the drivers provided by Samsung.
Windows Update has not detected any newer versions of the drivers.
EDIT: Well it seems SP1 broke something. The computer is much slower at booting, and any task within Win7 makes it freeze.
Booting into safe mode the startup process pauses at CLASSPNP.SYS for 30+ seconds then the computer resumes to boot into Safe Mode which seems to work okay (very snappy).
Ugh.
I had this CLASSPNP.SYS problem with my stationary computer once, but I dont remember how I solved it (or if I ever did, I might just have wiped the system). Damn you brain!
I have failed.
I am helping a colleague with his new laptop computer (Samsung RV515).
He said the thing was freezing all the time while surfing the net, I agreed to look at the laptop for him.
First thing when I tried it out. Indeed it freezes!
Using IE just surfing to Youtube made it freeze.
You can still move the mouse-pointer around but it has a the "loading" circle, so you cant click or activate anything.
I looked at a few things and couldn't figure it out.
He had already re-installed Windows 7 from the Backup disc which Samsung provided.
Anyway I decided to do another re-install from my clean version of Windows 7 which isnt filled up to the brims with trials and Samsung software.
Well everything was going fine, I started doing the updates from Microsoft, no freezes what-so-ever.
HOWEVER after just installing SP1 the thing froze (once again you can move the mouse around), and I was in Windows Update looking for further updates.
Restarted (hard reset, because you cant even call up the Task Manager with CTRL+ALT+DEL).. this time I launched IE9.. and fuck, just loading up Google.se it froze again.
Specs of the PC
AMD Dual Core-processor E-350 (1,6 GHz, 1 MB L2-cache)
AMD Radeon™ HD6470M
HDD 320GB SATAII 5400 rpm
4GB DDR3 1066MHz
AMD A50M Chipset
Windows 7 64-bit
Also I checked the RAM in both Memtest86 and the built in Win 7 thingy. No problems found.
Hardware or software related? I installed all the drivers provided by Samsung.
Windows Update has not detected any newer versions of the drivers.
EDIT: Well it seems SP1 broke something. The computer is much slower at booting, and any task within Win7 makes it freeze.
Booting into safe mode the startup process pauses at CLASSPNP.SYS for 30+ seconds then the computer resumes to boot into Safe Mode which seems to work okay (very snappy).
Ugh.
I had this CLASSPNP.SYS problem with my stationary computer once, but I dont remember how I solved it (or if I ever did, I might just have wiped the system). Damn you brain!
Forsete
Member
Follow-up on my post above:
I have noticed that Windows 7 crashes even when left alone for a few minutes.
It looks fine, you can move the mouse around but as soon as you click anything the loading circle of death appears, after this no more actions are possible (except moving the mouse pointer). CTRL+ALT+DEL does not bring up the task manager, quickly pressing the Power-button does not shut down the computer, you are left with Hold-clicking to hard reset the laptop.
Is there any software that can log what is happening in the background? Somewhere there must be a software fault.
I have noticed that Windows 7 crashes even when left alone for a few minutes.
It looks fine, you can move the mouse around but as soon as you click anything the loading circle of death appears, after this no more actions are possible (except moving the mouse pointer). CTRL+ALT+DEL does not bring up the task manager, quickly pressing the Power-button does not shut down the computer, you are left with Hold-clicking to hard reset the laptop.
Is there any software that can log what is happening in the background? Somewhere there must be a software fault.
If its just freezing without creating a dump file it could be trickier but you could try working through the following links and see if you get anywhere.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff545499(v=vs.85).aspx
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/041105-windows-crash.html
AlimNassor
Banned
My TV won't work. I have AT&T Uverse and I was watching TV when the picture died and the box reset and wouldn't get past 3 grey dots. Eventually I did a hard reset and now it shows a red X with 2 dots beneath it. Nothing I do seems to change it.