Random Question Thread: Tech

**Niiro** · 2011-05-15 19:01

Originally Posted by Jojimbo

x86 is were 32-bit programs are installed, x64 (just called Program Files actually, I added x64 on my shortcut to it) is where 64 bit programs are installed. If they are put in both it's possibly because you have both versions installed, or you have 32 and 64 bit programs from the same company (ie ATI drivers will default to 64-bit folder, but their app profile will install to x86).

Current driver version seems to be 8.850.0.0 for 11.5 (8.850.6.0 if you installed the hotfix, but I'm not sure if that's relavent for your card). And the visible Driver Details list is identical to mine (I also have some *32.dll in the SysWOW64 folder). What problems are you having exactly?

@Uryuu: DVI(-D) is enough for pretty much any current monitor res, it's no different other than the lack of sound.

Nothing in particular, just got XIV the other day (picked it up for 12$, with no monthly fee figured it was worth a go) and was a bit less than satisfied with it's performance so I just wanted to be sure everything was running as it should. I was looking stuff over after updating the drivers and was bothered by all the apparent inconsistencies/redundancies.

I cleaned things up a bit but yea, the drivers seem to be in order, cards just showing it's age I guess.

**Jojimbo** · 2011-05-16 17:37

I've been having an issue with my mouse (R.A.T. 7) where it stops moving left/right. It will move up/down like normal but left/right movement will stop/slow/start, however if I move the mouse quickly it won't stop or slowdown, it's only when I'm moving at usable speeds. It's also started to take a long time to begin moving after login, during this time left/right click will still work but the mouse won't move at all for a good 20+ sec (spamming buttons may or may not be involved; it didn't do this when I brought it and OS is on an SSD so it's not that login takes forever).

This still happens when I changed USB slot it was plugged into and even when I plugged it into my Laptop (which is currently not running Windows) so I think that rules out drivers/conflicting hardware issues. Of course googling about this lead to pretty much nothing because of the fuckton of mouse issues (I saw a comment in a user review on Razers site that their mouse very ocassionally stopped moving left/right but thats it)

I would just replace this without any Q but the problem is this *exact* issue, and it was exactly the same behaviour, happened with my last mouse (a Razer Mamba so not even the same make, I was also using a different mat when it first started happening). That mouse also went from working perfectly > occasionally stop moving left/right > not moving on login/constant slow downs and then stopped working all together.

Is it just bad luck that two different mice have broken in the same way or is there something that could be causing this?

**Kaisha** · 2011-05-17 09:23

Anyone know where I can find a WinXP SP3 image that's been stripped of crap? My Mac's WinXP install been getting unbearable, just going to format it all and start fresh, probably with a smaller partition while I'm at it. Just wanting to make the reinstall as painless as possible.

Those WinXP updates take forever to download and apply, and my legit disc is only SP2.

[EDIT] Ah fuck it, using my disc, probably going to regret this afterwards. Well, I guess while this post is up, anyone recommend an app that lets me make an image of a clean installation so I can skip all this pre-install/setting-up crap for next time down the road?

**Isiolia** · 2011-05-17 10:14

Originally Posted by Kaisha

AWell, I guess while this post is up, anyone recommend an app that lets me make an image of a clean installation so I can skip all this pre-install/setting-up crap for next time down the road?

http://www.nliteos.com/index.html

**Ratatapa** · 2011-05-17 10:52

Once again I can't read!!!

**Purrrfect** · 2011-05-17 12:20

It's not free unless you look for torrents but Acronis TrueImage is pretty handy.

**TheDirtyHobo** · 2011-05-18 18:45

Got myself a wee virus problem last night (MSE said Alureon.K and Hiloti.gen!D), fucked with my startup and made me BSOD from an ataport.sys driver error. After a few hours of intensive googling I managed to sweep them out, but I've still had a bit of residual errors that I can't seem to fix.

1. Something seems messed up about my javascript. Every time I open firefox, I get these two errors.

Spoiler: show

It's pretty obviously a javascript-related error involving the 4chan extension, I just can't seem to fix it. I've tried uninstalling/reinstalling the plugin, uninstalling/reinstalling firefox 3.6, updating to firefox 4, and uninstalling/reinstalling Java, but nothing seems to work.

2. Catalyst Control Center crashes immediately on startup, giving this error.

Spoiler: show

Again, tried uninstalling/reinstalling, and rolling back and re-updating the drivers.

Any help/suggestions appreciated.

**Kerberoz** · 2011-05-18 21:08

Backup your porn, write zeroes, reformat.

**Arximiro** · 2011-05-19 11:59

I ordered a new monitor, got it yesterday, checked all the pixels and all was good, no dead or stuck. Later that night I noticed one of my pixels had gotten stuck on a magenta type color. My question is do the flashing light programs ever work for stuck pixels? I've never had any luck with them. I'm kind of iffy about pushing on the pixel itself. It's so small I'm unsure how you would even push on it without pushing on the 8 around it. Anyone have a good idea I could try?

**Senji** · 2011-05-19 12:17

Just push on it. Halide bulbs don't blow up because you got finger oils on em either.

**Caiyuo** · 2011-05-19 14:06

So after just jumping into dual-booting linux on my laptop, I'm a little less crazy about ubuntu than I was before and want to try out other distros. The problem is that installing even ubuntu was a huge pain in the neck because my laptop BIOS only recognizes the first 137GB of my 160GB hard drive. I've been reading about using a boot partition to get around this, but I'm not sure what I actually need to do in that regard in creating it or utilizing it while installing. I've looked but the guides I've found surrounding boot partitions have been hard to understand thus far.

Right now my plan is to partition the disk like so:

160GB total:
first 130GB Windows partition / small~50MB (or however big this needs to be) boot partition / remaining space for linux and swap partitions

Any help with the boot partition or recommendations on how best to partition is really appreciated. Also trying out OpenSuse next if anyone has thoughts/comments on that.

**Purrrfect** · 2011-05-19 18:59

Originally Posted by Kerberoz

Backup your porn, write zeroes, reformat.

Pretty much best PC advice.^^

**Callisto** · 2011-05-20 00:24

Looks like my 360 just shit the bed...I have an older fat one, if I get the plain 4GB slim can I just pop the HDD out of the holder on this one and pop it into the newer one, or do I need to get one with an HDD and transfer data over?

**tonyg** · 2011-05-20 10:22

Is there any easy to use tool for when I want to diagnore my pc overall? I know there are tools for GFX CPUs and RAM, but is there one that does it all for you?

In context : I installed my new GTX570, and replaced 2 bars of RAM with 2 better ones. Now firefox just keeps crashing every few minutes, yet all my games run fine, and I have no idea what is the problem.

**Isiolia** · 2011-05-20 13:46

Now firefox just keeps crashing every few minutes, yet all my games run fine, and I have no idea what is the problem.

It sounds like your problem is Firefox >_>

Have you tried updating it, disabling plugins, that sort of thing? Is Flash trying to use hardware acceleration and swapping the GPU is causing it to be wacky (never seen it, but worth looking at)?

**Vandole** · 2011-05-20 20:37

i'm making a raid setup for my new computer to fully utilize the z68 mobo right now, and it's saying i can only use 111.8gb of my total 1400gb available space. how do i get the rest of the space back? do i partition?

using a 1500 gb hdd and a 60 gb ssd

**Jojimbo** · 2011-05-20 21:04

You can't RAID two unequal sized drives. If you try to then the larger one will be restricted to same size as the smaller drive (hence it only allowing ~120 GB). Not sure if you can partition and then RAID (can't remember what the format before raid involves) and wouldn't it just lead to slower access rates because half the stuff is on a HDD? Never heard of anyone wanting to raid a hdd and ssd before lol

**Vandole** · 2011-05-20 21:18

its for the new z68 mobo's to use intel smart response

**chiyio** · 2011-05-20 21:20

I think Vandole should go ahead with it, because I've never even heard of anybody doing a raid like that before. I'm really curious how it would handle the totally different write/read speeds, heh.

**Kerberoz** · 2011-05-20 21:33

I've heard of problems from RAID'ing different models of the same brand/size/speed...

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