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Exactly which drivers should I be using on a technically unsupported card like my x1800xt? I'm on 7201 x86 and I've tried drat near every driver version in between 8 and 9 (uninstalling using the ati utility in between) and not a single one of them will either a)load ccc b)scale my games properly this isn't an issue with some games that I can actually run at proper resolutions, but newer games I certainly can't do that... all of the solutions I can find on google presuppose that CCC is actually working.
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| # ¿ Jun 7, 2009 03:45 |
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| # ¿ May 19, 2013 23:55 |
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between this video scaling issue that ati has dropped the ball on, and the fact that my win7 install has apparently been completely nuked by running driver cleaner (hangs on starting windows), I am about this close to reinstalling xp. edit:okay apparently its working now, goddamn thrawn86 fucked around with this message at Jun 7, 2009 around 15:18 |
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ludosti posted:It shouldn't have been this much of a hassle with ATI, but after weeks of searching I finally found the directions to properly install the 9.3 drivers for my x1950 pro on 7048(this should work for you still). Taken from http://forums.amd.com/game/messagev...threadid=112722: awesome thanks
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| # ¿ Jun 7, 2009 18:14 |
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did anyone ever have any luck with the realtek popping issue? I've tried a couple of different driver packs now, and I'm about ready to plug in my old audigy 2 platinum ex and just see what happens  that breakout box sure was nice, come to think of it...
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| # ¿ Aug 18, 2009 22:51 |
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toxick posted:Some people claim the default Windows drivers solve the popping issue, or at least lessen its occurrence, but I haven't tried it yet. The official Realtek drivers are absolute poo poo and the problem has persisted since at least February. what suprised me is that this instal refused to load a default driver, when every other install did just fine. vista, RC1, etc. rather, it installs "high definition audio device, but it doesn't work. it also pulls up an unknown "other device" called NTativrv01. wtf.
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| # ¿ Aug 19, 2009 08:45 |
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The Gunslinger posted:Did any of you guys with the Realtek issues compare hardware configurations? There must be some common link there somewhere, I've setup 7 for a bunch of people now with the latest RT Win7 64bit drivers and had no issues. It's probably a driver bug/conflict related to some specific component. well I deleted and reinstalled everything again from my motherboard driver cd instead of the realtek site and it seems to be working for now... for reference: gigabyte ep43 ud3l e5x00 300x12 4gb @ 800mhz ati x1800xt win7 pro (legit)
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| # ¿ Aug 20, 2009 22:54 |
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anyone know how to edit the default choices for the "save as" dialog? I remember you could do it with a registry edit back in winxp...
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| # ¿ Aug 21, 2009 09:09 |
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JoeCitizen posted:Open up an administrator command prompt and enter: xdn tweaker also has a context menu shortcut for this, which I end up using all the time because my poor storage drives have now been through 3 diferent OSes and its a permissions nightmare.
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| # ¿ Aug 22, 2009 11:06 |
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Avarcirwen posted:Yes you can, keys are version specific not bit level specific. I keep seeing everyone say this, but my keys certainly aren't. Not a big deal. 32bit on the tablet, 64bit on the desktop.
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| # ¿ Oct 14, 2009 23:51 |
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whats the deal with windows update lately? the last two 'important' updates on my x64 pro install have notified me that a restart is required. I thought they'd done away with this...
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| # ¿ Oct 19, 2009 10:54 |
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KB974431 was the offending update. "update for windows 7 for x64-based systems" ah well, I had to restart anyway because windows decided to make my system volume icon vanish and be perma-disabled. (fixed now)
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| # ¿ Oct 19, 2009 11:03 |
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Capnbigboobies posted:I still don't get why people are going with digitalriver when you can just go with Microsoft directly. I assume 'direct line' meant he called them?
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| # ¿ Oct 24, 2009 21:49 |
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Mr. Clark2 posted:My mom is a high school teacher and therefore has a .edu email address. Can I use this email address to get the $30 deal or is it only for colleges? Thanks. my mom couldn't get one since its a state.us addy, though my sister could even though she had a insertcollegehere.com address
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| # ¿ Oct 26, 2009 18:45 |
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anyone have any problems with win7 and drive imaging yet? my current boot drive is an old seagate 80g ide drive, so i imaged it over to a 160g sata drive I got for free. booting from it, windows pitched an absolute fit. blank desktop, no explorer.exe even running, and the "this copy is not genuine" logo in the bottom right. I'm going to try using windows backup to restore it this time.
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| # ¿ Nov 6, 2009 07:46 |
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thrawn86 posted:anyone have any problems with win7 and drive imaging yet? my windows is so confusing. windows backup failed completely, with the cryptic error "parameter is incorrect". All i wanted was to image old drive -> new drive, sheesh. I used to do this with seatools all the time, no problems. either way, booting from my damaged (new) imaged drive and running a repair install seemed to work fine.
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| # ¿ Nov 6, 2009 16:57 |
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Kuroneko posted:I got my copy of Win7 Pro off the MSDN before my account ended about two weeks before retail release, but just got around to installing it on a new computer. Built and posted fine, everything checks out, pop in the DVD and after it winds up... I get: I have this exact same problem on a friends machine, using an MSDN x64pro iso on a flash drive (system has no dvd drive). its maddening. I've tried two different copies now. the same iso has successfully installed win7 on 3 other machines with no issue.
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| # ¿ Dec 20, 2009 07:29 |
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El Hefe posted:I'm having some trouble with my mouse scroll wheel working under some games and apps, I have W7 Professional 32bits and a Intellimouse Explorer 4.0 using the most recent drivers from Microsoft, the problem is that it works perfectly fine in Windows Explorer, Word, Outlook, VLC and in all browsers, but in some games (Dragon Age) and in flash videos it doesn't. What could be causing this? my logitech mouse *refuses* to work properly without the setpoint program running (it doesn't open on startup), including keybindings and the scrollwheel, which I use with katmouse, etc.
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| # ¿ Dec 21, 2009 08:20 |
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4gb will make a huge difference in games, but it will run fine on 2 if your hardware is beefy enough. MW2 routinely takes up 2.5gb of memory on my machine
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| # ¿ Dec 30, 2009 02:20 |
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I downloaded the isos from the digital river links above today and they work great.
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| # ¿ Jan 8, 2010 09:26 |
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Stanley Pain posted:Umm what? Yeah he shouldn't partition the 64GB SSD, but I sure as hell would partition a 1TB drive into OS and DATA partitions. like rolleyes said, that practice is pretty obsolete since vista unless you want to argue about short stroking. if you have to flatten the OS for any reason, just do a custom install and everything gets moved to your *.old folder. its always easier to just have a dedicated drive, even if not a raptor/black/whatever
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| # ¿ Jan 28, 2010 20:07 |
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SnatchRabbit posted:Crossposting from the mac thread: a casual google seems to find a few others having the same problem. nuke the drivers and let windows pick, it should pull up the newest ones (195?) for you.
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Interlude posted:Running an 8800GT graphics card - stick with the Win7 default drivers or install the ones from Nvidia's site? windows should have downloaded the proper nvidia drivers for you.
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| # ¿ Jan 29, 2010 01:31 |
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Zerotheos posted:Navigation pane style: Windows XP Classic whats the difference besides having '+' instead of an arrow? does it enable 'up directory' instead of 'back'? and why in the name of god would anyone give up the win7 start menu. Its *fantastic*. I die inside every time I see my boss with his blazing new win7 machine, aero off, XP classic theme enabled, hunting and pecking through the start menu to find some obscure app. also, my explorer has always shown file size of individual and selected items. I'm confused. thrawn86 fucked around with this message at Jan 29, 2010 around 04:40 |
| # ¿ Jan 29, 2010 04:35 |
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my taskbar has started 'losing' icons. how exactly does one change a taskbar icon (where did it go in the first place) ? Click here for the full 610x84 image. the offending icon is supposed to be aim lite. this happened the same day on my laptop with opera 10.5 alpha. No apparent reason, they just disappeared when I started them up.
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| # ¿ Jan 29, 2010 05:00 |
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jeeves posted:http://xenomorph.net/microsoft-wind...-rebuild-icons/ thanks. xenomorph is brilliant! ed: the script doesn't work, but the second method does just fine. thrawn86 fucked around with this message at Jan 29, 2010 around 17:37 |
| # ¿ Jan 29, 2010 17:32 |
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at least no one has made the short stroking argument yet.
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| # ¿ Jan 30, 2010 01:46 |
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Swilo posted:I believe thrawn was making a joke about people who "short stroke" their OS partition but then proceed to use the rest of the drive anyway, thus negating any benefits. Basically. Plus with a 1.5tb drive theres no way it would be practical 
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| # ¿ Jan 31, 2010 06:25 |
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the correct answer is on the second monitor :0 my backup also freaks out when it runs out of space. I thought I fixed all the permissions but who knows. I just spanned together 4 old drives I had laying around so now I have 600g worth of backup, should last awhile. then I suppose I'll just delete everything except the initial "fresh" image and my most recent backup. thrawn86 fucked around with this message at Jan 31, 2010 around 20:13 |
| # ¿ Jan 31, 2010 20:05 |
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evale posted:I have an unused copy of 7 that I'm trying to put on an old PC. It only has a 20GB HDD and every time I try to install 7 it gives me an error saying that I need roughly 6GB of free space. I don't have that on the drive. win7 will format it for you no problem, is that what you're asking? go into custom install, and go from there.
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| # ¿ Feb 1, 2010 23:42 |
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or gparted, or wipe the drive in another computer if you don't feel like burning another iso.
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| # ¿ Feb 2, 2010 00:43 |
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Evil Fluffy posted:So in Win7, windows update just resets the computer on you after a certain amount of time? The windows I had open when I went to bed were still there, so I was figuring it just logged me out and didn't reboot. some updates require a forced restart, yeah. only slightly less annoying than having to reboot every time. every now and then I'll wake up with a blank desktop (no programs, etc) and wonder what happened
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| # ¿ Feb 7, 2010 16:24 |
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JustFrakkingDoIt posted:Also, I've heard nothing but good about MS Security Essentials (I know, I know you have to DL it from MS which I just whinged about) and it's probably more highly rated than AVG as long as you have enough system memory. MSE has been remarkably low footprint for me with the exception of the occasional anti-malware service deciding to pop up to 100% at random times (during games, wtf) even with real time scanning OFF
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| # ¿ Feb 10, 2010 00:25 |
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if windows forcibly restarts my pc in the middle of the night again after downloading some mysterious driver pack I will murder someone. I thought we were done with rebooting for updates anyway?raezr posted:Almost every single program I use regularly on my 64bit Windows is 32bit, so yeah there shouldn't be a problem. the only application I use that I can remember having problems with was dameontools, which is understandable. oh, and my linksys ethernet card adapter needed specific x64 drivers too, but those were easily googled.
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| # ¿ Feb 10, 2010 17:52 |
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teethgrinder posted:I know you can specify new locations for specific user folders, like Documents, Saved Games, Music, etc ... but is there any Microsoft-supported way to move the entire C:\Users structure elsewhere? Or the individuals users would be alright too, but doing it piecemeal by subfolder is a pain in the rear end. microsoft supported? you can change the registry keys...but that seems like bad juju to me. Why anyone would want to do it is beyond me. http://www.windows7hacker.com/index...n-in-windows-7/
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| # ¿ Feb 14, 2010 04:39 |
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jackpot posted:Nothing. Goddamn, this just shouldn't be so hard to figure out. recently opened files list in word?
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| # ¿ May 27, 2010 06:20 |
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jackpot posted:Nope. people make it all the time. Had a female friend of mine come to me in tears once after "losing" a research paper that she'd emailed to herself and did the same thing (after deleting the email of course). Luckily this was in firefox so I knew where the temp downloads were.
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| # ¿ May 27, 2010 07:02 |
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Bond697 posted:Anyone got any idea why this might be happening? happened to me once. the backup service had summarily removed itself from my computer, and trying to start it manually produced all kinds of errors. nuked and reinstalled, problem solved.
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| # ¿ Jun 1, 2010 23:26 |
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Bond697 posted:Yep, I see "Windows Backup" as a service on my laptop now, but it's non-existent on my desktop. Thanks. I just looked it up, and apparently it can be fully fixed with a repair install, so that's good. yeah I tried several different repair installs and systems restores, nothing would bring it back. this was after months of windows backup working perfectly in the background.
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| # ¿ Jun 2, 2010 06:40 |
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Aunt Beth posted:I'm super disappointed that AIM Lite has been abandoned. I've switched to Pidgin since, but worked hard to making the interface as much like LAIM as humanly possible. I need to find where it stores its icons (status/mobile/etc) and replace them all with 1 pixel transparent or white images. I finally switched over to trillian from aim lite. the astra login stuff is pretty painless and doesn't even require a confirmation. just used a throwaway email, no harm done. Hung Yuri posted:How do I keep the network I connect to from installing programs on my computer? maybe your school will allow you to connect through vpn?
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Never Odd or Even posted:This has probably already been answered, but this thread is massive, so: also make sure and check if your school (or your department if your eng/CS/CE) has an MSDNAA account. between that and the student offer I got 4 keys for 30$.
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