Schwindoze S3v3n...

Post by **enderzero** » Tue Dec 22, 2009 11:08 am

Yeah reminds me of the problem PC mcnevin had a few gens ago. I think you better just fix your hw problems and stop blaming W7.

Bill Drayton Jr. · Post by **Bill Drayton Jr.** » Tue Dec 22, 2009 12:02 pm

The only hardware I have changed is adding a drive dock and a new hard drive. The rest has been the same for the last 1.5yrs.

R3C · Post by **R3C** » Tue Dec 22, 2009 1:55 pm

Perhaps something unseated itself during a drive swap? Sounds like your case may be haunted. I've experienced a couple of haunted cases in my time. Switched out everything (and I mean EVERYTHING) but the case, and still had problems, until I ditched the case. This happened with SpidMonx' KME case, and it happened with a SuperCase, and some other one more recently. Sometimes you get a Taiwanese ghost stuck in your case from the factory, and they just won't leave you alone. The only thing to do is put the case to rest.

Bill Drayton Jr. · Post by **Bill Drayton Jr.** » Tue Dec 22, 2009 9:56 pm

Leave the room with computer at idle...come back to find it has reset and is stuck with the message HARD DISK ERROR.

CTRL-ALT-DEL...reboots into W7

Mouse and keyboard are not working at all - cannot log in...

hold power button down on front of box and W7 says shutting down...

reset again...and everything appears normal.

So far it looks like it would actually be the hard drive. Even though this is a brand new hard drive and the one that I was using before worked fine for having the system drive in an external dock.

Bill Drayton Jr. · Post by **Bill Drayton Jr.** » Tue Dec 22, 2009 11:01 pm

Ok think my system is about to die...

Blue screen, hang, crash when I move the mouse...unrecognized IDE drives for three reboots...something is seriously wrong...I am pretty sure it must be the hard drive..

McNevin · Post by **McNevin** » Wed Dec 23, 2009 12:19 pm

Is that one of those Segates that need a firmware update.

Bill Drayton Jr. · Post by **Bill Drayton Jr.** » Wed Dec 23, 2009 4:09 pm

it was a slightly loose eSATA connection...ridiculous...I am teh dumbass...

I think it may have happened when the cat was screwing around back there and probably stepped on it or something. The connection doesn't really snap in very well...Going to have to buy one of the better cables like I have for my other drive but for now things are not hanging all weird.

R3C · Post by **R3C** » Wed Dec 23, 2009 7:54 pm

I went through a ton of things only to find out I had a bad SATA cable, which the whole time I was "nah, couldn't be the cable..."

I even updated the firmware on the drives thinking they were the bad lot of Seacrates...

Beeeph · Post by **Beeeph** » Mon Jan 04, 2010 7:52 pm

create a new folder in windows 7 and rename it to this...

GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}

god mode!

Bill Drayton Jr. · Post by **Bill Drayton Jr.** » Mon Jan 04, 2010 9:40 pm

That is pretty cool but I don't see a way to change the desktop background to a solid color.

Has anyone done this?

Post by **enderzero** » Mon Jan 04, 2010 10:21 pm

Jeebus wow!

McNevin · Post by **McNevin** » Wed Feb 03, 2010 1:33 am

starterzero wrote:That is pretty cool but I don't see a way to change the desktop background to a solid color.

Has anyone done this?

Probably not, because changing the desktop to a solid background color will add 30 seconds to the login process:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977346

Speaking of 30 second delays, whenever I would go into my download folder, after a fresh reboot, it would take about 30 seconds to display the folder contents. Turns out my downloads folder was optimized for Videos! I set it to general, and now it opens immediately. I cant believe I've lived with this since October. Luckily I don't reboot too often.

Bill Drayton Jr. · Post by **Bill Drayton Jr.** » Wed Feb 03, 2010 5:21 pm

R3C · Post by **R3C** » Tue Feb 09, 2010 11:12 am

Nevermind... Need to use it now...

R3C · Post by **R3C** » Wed Feb 10, 2010 3:30 pm

Ok, have another one. I've got a Windows 7 Home Premium OEM license. It's just a sticker/key, hasn't been activated. Cheap... Over...

Bill Drayton Jr. · Post by **Bill Drayton Jr.** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 6:11 am

Does anyone elses machine crash/hang/reset if you have a Flash object running in your browser for a long time? This is different from the time when my machine crashes if I have Flash object in full screen...Getting pretty sick of all these fricken problems...

R3C · Post by **R3C** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 8:34 am

Flash does that sort of thing, but no, I can't think of any time my W7 PC has crashed when it wasn't due to me testing higher OC settings. I've since settled on stable clocks, and haven't had a single issue.

Do you have a haunted case? You'll need to exorcise it.

Megatron · Post by **Megatron** » Tue Mar 16, 2010 1:31 pm

I'm running Win7 on 4 boxes and have yet to have any sort of problems.

Bill Drayton Jr. · Post by **Bill Drayton Jr.** » Wed Mar 17, 2010 12:48 pm

Defintely my machine...Have to computers hooked up now and when I lose network connectivity on my W7 box my XP box is unaffected...

R3C · Post by **R3C** » Wed Mar 17, 2010 1:15 pm

Haunted case!

What motherboard are you using?

N3ur0n0saurusl2exs0r!!! · Sat Mar 20, 2010 11:57 pm

I've seen this before many times...it's the case...trust me.

Bill Drayton Jr. · Post by **Bill Drayton Jr.** » Sun Mar 21, 2010 7:12 pm

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6813188024

Bill Drayton Jr. · Post by **Bill Drayton Jr.** » Sun Mar 21, 2010 7:26 pm

New 64-bit W7 drivers were released 2 months ago...although still beta hopefully they will work well...must have had alpha drivers before now...

R3C · Post by **R3C** » Sun Mar 21, 2010 10:04 pm

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On a side note, Gigabyte UDX-XXXX boards are great, ASUS of course makes excellent Intel base boards. I'm running an EVGA uATX i7 x58 board in my main system. It's quite nice, and I've enjoyed their NV based boards in the past, but they definitely aren't quite as stable as the Intels. I've run into this with a couple of my systems. (680i board in particular) You can usually make them stable, but it may or may not be worth the extra tweaking effort. You could try increasing voltages to various chipset functions. you know... give the red dragon a little more juice... keep it on the downlow though...

Bill Drayton Jr. · Post by **Bill Drayton Jr.** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 8:41 pm

I would love to get my giga-byte on...so I could schwakintosh...and lynn-noox...my fingers off...

R3C · Post by **R3C** » Tue Mar 23, 2010 8:06 am

They are quite useful for that as well. The UD3-P/R are both perfect for this, and require the least amount of work to get going with Snow Leopard.

McNevin · Post by **McNevin** » Thu May 06, 2010 9:17 am

I was wondering how you performed a "Close Group" in Win7.
(Shift-RightClick)

More tips here:
http://lifehacker.com/5532578/the-power ... -7-taskbar

N3ur0n0saurusl2exs0r!!! · Thu May 06, 2010 10:58 am

heh, such a funny classification - "power user."

So are you guys power users? er....you just jigglin?

R3C · Post by **R3C** » Thu May 06, 2010 1:11 pm

I'm a jigglin' power user!

McNevin · Post by **McNevin** » Thu May 06, 2010 5:00 pm

I'd say I'm a power user. I'd also say I like to commence the jigglin' (Aero Shake)

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Schwindoze S3v3n...

Another new one:

Figured it out...

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