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What the fuck is wrong with my computer.
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Damn. Sorry sir. That's no fun at all. Having to unseat and re-seat everything after the new mobo comes in, that's just a hassle.
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You just keep tellin' yourself that.
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Graz just keeps a running tally of the hours I've worked troubleshooting this thing and compares it to the money saved by building it ourselves.
It's not a positive number.
Only the plus side, I cleaned the heatsink fan and put more thermal paste on while I was fooling around last night. Core temps are like 30 degrees while idling, and 55 when playing The Witcher. There is some limited victory here! -
A sense of accomplishment and horrible gashes on your hands are your rewards for a job well (enough) done.
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That's presuming you haven't already slit them trying to remove a particularly stubborn PCI card.
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So... how do I get Stereo Mix on my PC? At one point I had, but uninstalled a bunch of and whatever program that enabled Stereo Mix got uninstalled as well. So I guess what I'm asking is how do I re-enable Stereo Mix or what program can I download to let me record only audio coming out of my computer?
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Make sure you have "show disabled devices" checked.
Make sure you get proper drivers for your motherboard. Get your Realtek on.
Reboot your computer 500 times. Eventually something innocuous you changed and didn't even realize will make it show up.
Say "fuck you RIAA for making it so hard to get to stereo mix."
What model sound card/motherboard do you have? On some it's hidden, on some it's near impossible. -
There's also that Virtual Audio Cable thing, as I recall.
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So at some point I uninstalled the Realtek Audio Manager which is probably why I don't have Stereo Mix anymore. I have no idea what sound card/motherboard I have. I tried some methods to figure it out but none the information they gave me stood out as "this is my motherboard/sound card model number/name". I'm pretty sure my sound card is integrated or what ever the modern equivalent is, and when I was looking around at the list of audio devices it gave me names like "AMD High Definition Audio Device" and "High Definition Audio Controller".
I looked at VAC and the page said to just use Stereo Mix so I'd prefer to restore that functionality if all possible. That probably involves downloading drivers from Realtek but none of files they have standout to me. -
We just moved. After nearly a week of screw-ups AT&T finally got our phone and DSL working at the new house, or so we thought. Computer just says "could not find PPPoE server" whenever I try to connect. 2 hours on the phone with ATT did no good. Any ideas? Alternately, anybody have any experience with comcast broadband, cause I'm about ready to dump ATT.
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If you're using a Mac the 'use PPPoE connection' button may be checked, and it could be as simple as unchecking it. Otherwise, making sure your connection is set to DHCP and other such things is a good idea. Also, confirm that your DSL doesn't require a username/pass to be put into the modem/a site on first connect, or something like that.
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Are there other providers beside Comcast, Att and Verizon?
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I wont need to do that because guess what? The reason I can't connect is because instead of transferring our DSL service to the new house, AT&T just cancelled it, and didn't tell us! Nice! And nobody in support that I talked to figured that out until the guy I got last night. Now I'm just trying to get them to expedite the order to turn our internets back on.
Thanks again for the suggestions. If nothing else, I'm now better at trouble shooting my network connection. -
I was having a really odd problem with my computer. ever since I bought my new graphics card I've had my computer just randomly turn off during some games. not crash, but lose power. If i turned the graphics down lower it would work fine. I figured it was my power supply, replaced it (the one that came with my computer was only a 300w supply), and haven't been having any problems. The odd thing though is what games it was crashing during. I could play something like Dragon Age, Borderlands, or Metro 2023 on full graphics just fine, but Heroes of Might and Magic V or Red Faction: Guerrilla would cause it to crash within a minute or two unless I had it on the lowest of settings. I'm sure there is some explanation for it, but I just found it weird.
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So, my computer is still having the same issue and after reading some DIY stuff I think I'm ready to apply the thermal paste to see if it fixes the issue. Until now I've been managing the problem with the PC Wizard that Xeno told them that thing's a godsend.
Question is, which thermal paste is a good paste for me to use (and easy to apply) that could be bought at a local tiger direct or some other place? -
Was your power-supply fan working?
I had a weird one where the power-supply fan wouldn't start spinning unless I jammed something in there to spin the fan around. If I forgot, the thing would overheat and the computer would shut down without warning. -
Parents called me over because their Compaq Presario kept locking up in Windows 7. The compaq recovery diagnostics program pointed to the hard drive. It's a Western Digital Caviar Blue (WD2500AAJS) 250GB hard drive. It didn't past WD HDD diagnostics program, so I ran spinrite. I got crap load of cabling errors while the hard drive with sprinrite. Does that just mean the cables are bad?
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Probably, and cables aren't too expensive and are easy to return so it's worth a try. Although there is the possibility that somethings wrong with the sata input/outputs (the motherboard is using sata right?) on the motherboard and/or hardrive . Hopefully that's not the case though.
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JeffersonPierce said:
Parents called me over because their Compaq Presario kept locking up in Windows 7. The compaq recovery diagnostics program pointed to the hard drive. It's a Western Digital Caviar Blue (WD2500AAJS) 250GB hard drive. It didn't past WD HDD diagnostics program, so I ran spinrite. I got crap load of cabling errors while the hard drive with sprinrite. Does that just mean the cables are bad?
If you have another hard you know works, you could connect it with the existing cables and rerun the diagnostic (obviously a WD drive would be good so you can use the same utility). If the same kind of errors come up with it, then you are likely looking at a cable or motherboard header problem. You can also check the S.M.A.R.T. data for the drive. A program called SpeedFan can show you that, and I would think the WD utility has such feature as well. If the drive itself is having a physical problem, that should show up in the S.M.A.R.T. results. -
Got home from work. Computer isn't turning on. I looked online for Troubleshooting and it suggests that it could be my power supply. How can I know for sure if it is with regular home tools before going out to buy a power supply that I might not work ?
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Invest in a multimeter.
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Do you have a power indicator on your tower? But yeah, if it's not turning on then it pretty much can only be your PSU.
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There are a couple types of "not turning on": the kind where absolutely nothing happens (power supply, as noted above), the kind where LEDs light up - and even a fan might start - but there's no BIOS post (power supply good, BIOS or mobo bad), and the kind where you get LEDs and a BIOS post but nothing else (HD controller or HD is bad).
Hmm.. is this the computer that keeps overheating? -
Based on your description it's the mother board (bad) or the power supply (not nearly as bad). I would just go buy a power supply if you can't find a multimeter.
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Yeah xeno it's the same ungrateful whore that was overheating. (I'm kind of mad)
Joel: I just bought a new power supply and now Im going to try to install it myself.
Wish me luck -
You got this.
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Just remember, don't touch the red wire and the black wire at the same time, and under no circumstances should you use a screwdriver as a "redneck circuit tester", which I did once, and all I'll say is thank God for circuit breakers.
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Progress report: it wasn't as neurosurgeon or rocket scientistish as I thought it would have been.
Unfortunately, still doesn't turn on. Probably going to take it down to tigedirect store where I bought the power supply to see if they can pinpoint the issue.
P.S.- if they end up replacing the motherboard, will I be able to retrieve the data in my HDD? -
As long as the HDD is fine, your data is fine.
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Phew, thanks
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Finally posting from my computer, apparently I made a noob mistake of not pressing all the way in on one of the pins.
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It's always better to make a noob mistake like that than one which destroys one or more of your components.
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I've done that multiple times, with different components.
