Stupid question,
I bought bioshock a long time ago and it I was using USB headphones, and everything was hunky dorry. Now I dont have USB headphones anymore and now no ingame sound will play, I do not have a audio card, and Ive tried compadibility,
Im running windows 7 home premium.
6GB RaM
1GB Graphics
And an ASUS motherboard.
@Necrovarus: you don't have any audio card? i'm surprised you even get sound....Do you have speakers on this computer?
My own Question: I just got killing floor off of steam and it won't launch. it basically makes my computer have a black screen seizure before throwing up an error that something screwed up and to delete killing floor.ini
I've already done that and it still does the same thing. although i'm not sure if dual monitors screws it up/killing floor can't handle it.
thoughts?
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Audio is built into the motherboard,
and dual monitors shouldnt affect the game. You have a primary and secondary monitor when you launch a game it blanks the secondary and uses the primary.
dual monitors shouldnt affect the game. You have a primary and secondary monitor when you launch a game it blanks the secondary and uses the primary.
Shouldn't but does. The only way it'll run while i have my dual monitors hooked up is to force it to launch in windowed mode. idk why, but it works so meh
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I'm booting Mint 10 (64 bit) at the moment, and it has worked fine for me up to yesterday. Today, however, while I was watching some films on it, the screen froze, sound repeated for a few seconds before my entire screen turned pink. I restarted, watched again, and some time later, it did it again.
My first guess would be the graphics driver. However, I haven't been screwing around with that as far as I know.
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Ok, so I have this problem. Whenever I run CHKDSK it runs fine until it reaches the 4 out of 5 part of the scan. Everything will just freeze, it won't continue scanning. I tried waiting it out for a 5 minutes at first, it continued scanning. I left it for another 5 and it stopped, waited it out for 20 minutes and it still won't scan to the point I had to force restart it. I tried doing a CHKDSK again and the same problem arises.
I'm booting Mint 10 (64 bit) at the moment, and it has worked fine for me up to yesterday. Today, however, while I was watching some films on it, the screen froze, sound repeated for a few seconds before my entire screen turned pink. I restarted, watched again, and some time later, it did it again.
My first guess would be the graphics driver. However, I haven't been screwing around with that as far as I know.
A graphics driver would sound like a reasonable cause, but unless the linux version you're running changed something lately that would affect how the graphics drivers are working with it, unless your graphics drivers got corrupted somehow (hard drives do screw up on their own accord every now and then)
Ok, so I have this problem. Whenever I run CHKDSK it runs fine until it reaches the 4 out of 5 part of the scan. Everything will just freeze, it won't continue scanning. I tried waiting it out for a 5 minutes at first, it continued scanning. I left it for another 5 and it stopped, waited it out for 20 minutes and it still won't scan to the point I had to force restart it. I tried doing a CHKDSK again and the same problem arises.
Is there something wrong with my hard drive?
It's not easy to tell at this point if there is something wrong with your hard drive or not. From doing a quick google search on this i found this little bit of info:
It may appear to hang at a certain percent for a hour or more or even back up and go over the same area...this is normal...
DO NOT SHUT YOUR COMPUTER DOWN WHILE CHKDSK IS RUNNING OR YOU CAN HAVE SEVERE PROBLEMS
So...While your hard drive might not have had problems before, it may very well have them now.
What OS are you running, and why were you running a chkdsk? or did the computer do it with no prompting from you? (automatically on start-up/boot)
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It's not easy to tell at this point if there is something wrong with your hard drive or not. From doing a quick google search on this i found this little bit of info:
So...While your hard drive might not have had problems before, it may very well have them now.
Crap on a stick.
What OS are you running, and why were you running a chkdsk? or did the computer do it with no prompting from you? (automatically on start-up/boot)
I'm running Windows 7 and the computer told me to run a CHKDSK beforehand. I don't know what caused my computer to recommend a CHKDSK, though.
A graphics driver would sound like a reasonable cause, but unless the linux version you're running changed something lately that would affect how the graphics drivers are working with it, unless your graphics drivers got corrupted somehow (hard drives do screw up on their own accord every now and then)
Yeah. Just to be safe, I'll run a test on my hard drive asap (though I hope this isn't the issue, just replaced the bloody thing two months or so ago).
I had an idea after I wrote that post: I used the inbuilt Movie Player while watching these videos. I've watched a couple of episodes using the VLC one, and no crashes has happened so far. I REALLY hope that the Movie Player is the problem.
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I'm running Windows 7 and the computer told me to run a CHKDSK beforehand. I don't know what caused my computer to recommend a CHKDSK, though.
Hmm, can you start it now without running that check disk? Does windows boot? (as in you get to a login screen, or windows starts if you don't have a password on the account) if it does, you're hard drive probably isn't damaged (or not majorly). if it'll boot, then your system files aren't damaged, which is good enough for most people to be concerned with.
Yeah. Just to be safe, I'll run a test on my hard drive asap (though I hope this isn't the issue, just replaced the bloody thing two months or so ago).
I had an idea after I wrote that post: I used the inbuilt Movie Player while watching these videos. I've watched a couple of episodes using the VLC one, and no crashes has happened so far. I REALLY hope that the Movie Player is the problem.
that would make sense, if doesn't crash anymore, assume it was the movie player unless something else happens.
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Hmm, can you start it now without running that check disk? Does windows boot? (as in you get to a login screen, or windows starts if you don't have a password on the account) if it does, you're hard drive probably isn't damaged (or not majorly). if it'll boot, then your system files aren't damaged, which is good enough for most people to be concerned with.
After a day, I think my mom used my laptop not knowing that it has problems. When I returned home to pick it up, it would reach the "Starting Windows" with the logo animation, then send me to a black screen with white text giving two options:
1. Repair something. I forgot what it said.
2. Start Windows Normally.
I tried option 2 but it kept sending me to the same black screen with text.
I have an Acer 3820T-5246 laptop with Windows 7. Recently I have been having issues with two programs, Soluto and Cockatrice.
Starting 4 days ago, I get pop-ups from Soluto about once per day saying that "Cockatrice crashed / looking for solution" and of course not finding one. At all times this happened, I wasn't even running Cockatrice. I have not experienced any crashes during prior attempts to run the application.
Can anyone with experience in either of these programs tell me what the hell is going on??
EDIT: This has happened, like clockwork, every day at 12:25 PM PST.
I tried connecting my PC to my TV. If it matters, it's some off-brand company called Curtis. I plugged the HDMI cable into my video card and the TV, and turned on the computer. It was working for a while, but then randomly turned black. The computer kept running, but the screen got no signal. After turning it off and back on, nothing happened. It just stayed on no signal. I swapped the HDMI cable with a DVI cable in my computer, adapted to fir a VGA cable, which then plugged into the TV. However, although the computer would turn on and the fans start spinning, the TV still got no signal.
The problem goes away randomly, sometimes allowing me to get on and do stuff. It then randomly cuts to black again and doesn't show up on the TV again just like the last time.
Anyone know the problem?
EDIT: It seems to be the graphics card's problem. I swapped it out with one I borrowed, and the computer has been on for a couple of hours now, with no problems as of yet. I guess I should return the old card to Newegg and order a new one?
Wake up this morning and go into the living room, and see my desktop never finished shutting down after I went to bed (was exhausted, hit shut down, went to bed assuming it'd shut down). So I power it off, and go to turn it back on. Case lights come on, fans are starting up, then it goes right back off not even as soon as I release the power button.
I give it a bit, try starting it up a few more times, and finally get it to start loading aaaand it freezes while loading Win7. Restart it again, this time it starts up asking me if I want to do a start up recovery so I hit yes. It goes through it's thing, restarts and freezes as soon as it enters windows. Great.
Restarted it again, now it freezes on the MOBO logo screen (I guess you'd call that while it's loading BIOS), and some times not getting a video signal at all. Now, when it'll power up all the way (it still often times does the original not-powering-on-properly thing), I'm met with the sound of fans running at max and no video signal.
I have no idea wtf is wrong with it now. During all this I tried resetting the BIOS. I got out my Win7 disc because it's priority was set to boot from CD, but now I can't get a video signal or anything anyway. Normally after it starts and gets going when it's working, the fans quiet down, but now all the fans are just blasting at full speed with no video signal until I turn it off again. Also no power is going to my USB mouse that has some LED lights in it, because normally after it gets going the mouse lights come on.
FYI I'm running Win7 64-bit, a Radeon HD5770 video card, ASUS P5N-T MoBo, and a 750w ATX Power Supply, and an Intel QuadCore CPU (the model escapes me atm)
Edit:
After a suggestion from a friend I tried to reseat my processor and video card. It starts up consistently now, and I'm getting a video signal again, however it's shutting itself down after not too long at BIOS.
Hope I'm in the right place for home theater/video game help.
My PS3 set up is giving me some trouble. I had it set up to put audio out through optical to my receiver/surround sound, and video out via HDMI directly to my tv. It worked fine for about 2 years until last week the sound started stuttering. Cutting in and out, basically. So I wiggled the optical cables a bit and it seemed to work fine in certain positions, but today it won't work at all. I've unplugged the optical cable, dusted it, etc, it just doesn't seem to be sending information from the PS3 to the receiver any more (I've checked to make sure the ps3 is still sending the audio signal through this). It's hard to play games without sound (and telling it to play sound through my tv sounds like trash. I have a surround system for a reason).
So, assuming the optical port on either my PS3 or Receiver is no longer functioning, how can I get this to work? The optical cable itself seems to be functioning, as there's red light coming from it when I unplug one end to check...
Try to borrow a cable from a friend just to definitively rule out the cable. If that checks out try a different receiver or PS3; you want to narrow down where the problem lies.
Try to borrow a cable from a friend just to definitively rule out the cable. If that checks out try a different receiver or PS3; you want to narrow down where the problem lies.
Thanks. I grabbed a new cable to try this out and discovered the problem as soon as I hit it with a flashlight. The little door/hinge that covers the optical port on the receiver had come off its spring and fallen down into the canal, covering it completely. Easy tweezers fix..
Hey fellas, trying to play Dead Island on my PC and for some reason it won't launch. All I get is an error message saying Dead Island is already running. I updated Windows, but not really sure what else would be a good idea.
is it normal for a laptop that's only 2 years old to be really slow?
it's a Lenovo T-500 Thinkpad
Keep it off for a day. Delete temporary internet files. Make sure you have a lot of memory. Make sure you aren't running any heavy applications.
Does your whole computer run slow or is it just your browser?
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@Chaotix, I'd extract your favorites, documents, and anything else you need then use your restore disk. I wouldn't get my hopes up though, sounds like a faulty motherboard.
How old is the computer?
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So... I am trying to copy a family video file from my computer over to my WD external harddrive. I have backed up older videos like this before, but for some reason, whenever I trying copying it over now, my computer just freezes and I have to force it to shutdown. I am running Windows 7 on a Sony Vaio laptop.
And yes, I tried google for several hours now, so unless the force is not with me on google, I cannot find the answer there.
Edit: The video plays fine, everything on the external still works, I ran chkdsk and defraged already.
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I'm having an issue with my laptop (ASUS G50V) freezing.
It randomly freezes for a few minutes, comes back, usually saying that the display driver has failed and restarted, but when it does, my internal wireless card gets turned off. I'm unable to reconnect to my wireless, and when I run the troubleshooting, it is unable to repair it. When I attempt to turn off my laptop, it sits in the "windows is shutting down" screen (which means that there's a background program running, correct?). So I have to force shut down.
When I reboot, the internet is still disconnected, but when I run the troubleshooter it finds the problem that my internal wireless modem is turned off, and I can run the fix and it resets. After a while (sometimes 30 minutes, sometimes a few hours), it rinses and repeats.
I'll also note that every once in a great while when it freezes it blue screens with the error "driver power state failure"
Assuming it was something wrong with either my video driver or my wireless driver, I've made sure both are updated. Still happens.
I'm worried that it is some sort of malware or spyware that is attacking my computer (which would explain the freezing and the program running in the background). But sweeps from both Malwarebytes and my anti-virus program have come up empty.
My only other explanation is that there's something wrong with the actual hardware inside of the machine. But I don't know enough about the anatomy of my laptop to risk opening it up and taking a look.
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So I downloaded FBdownloader so I could get some cash, and it ended up installing a program called MTRS 2.0 1.0 that I can't uninstall, and it disables AdBlock Plus. How do I get rid of it?
Installing anything that promises free money is a bad idea. Let this be a lesson to avoid such things in the future. Malware authors use the appeal of free money, porn, or games to get you to open your system. You wouldn't let a guy offering you an unseen wad of cash into your home, would you?
I bought bioshock a long time ago and it I was using USB headphones, and everything was hunky dorry. Now I dont have USB headphones anymore and now no ingame sound will play, I do not have a audio card, and Ive tried compadibility,
Im running windows 7 home premium.
6GB RaM
1GB Graphics
And an ASUS motherboard.
Anyone HELP ME PLEASE
My own Question: I just got killing floor off of steam and it won't launch. it basically makes my computer have a black screen seizure before throwing up an error that something screwed up and to delete killing floor.ini
I've already done that and it still does the same thing. although i'm not sure if dual monitors screws it up/killing floor can't handle it.
thoughts?
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and dual monitors shouldnt affect the game. You have a primary and secondary monitor when you launch a game it blanks the secondary and uses the primary.
Shouldn't but does. The only way it'll run while i have my dual monitors hooked up is to force it to launch in windowed mode. idk why, but it works so meh
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My first guess would be the graphics driver. However, I haven't been screwing around with that as far as I know.
Is there something wrong with my hard drive?
A graphics driver would sound like a reasonable cause, but unless the linux version you're running changed something lately that would affect how the graphics drivers are working with it, unless your graphics drivers got corrupted somehow (hard drives do screw up on their own accord every now and then)
It's not easy to tell at this point if there is something wrong with your hard drive or not. From doing a quick google search on this i found this little bit of info:
So...While your hard drive might not have had problems before, it may very well have them now.
What OS are you running, and why were you running a chkdsk? or did the computer do it with no prompting from you? (automatically on start-up/boot)
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Crap on a stick.
I'm running Windows 7 and the computer told me to run a CHKDSK beforehand. I don't know what caused my computer to recommend a CHKDSK, though.
Yeah. Just to be safe, I'll run a test on my hard drive asap (though I hope this isn't the issue, just replaced the bloody thing two months or so ago).
I had an idea after I wrote that post: I used the inbuilt Movie Player while watching these videos. I've watched a couple of episodes using the VLC one, and no crashes has happened so far. I REALLY hope that the Movie Player is the problem.
Hmm, can you start it now without running that check disk? Does windows boot? (as in you get to a login screen, or windows starts if you don't have a password on the account) if it does, you're hard drive probably isn't damaged (or not majorly). if it'll boot, then your system files aren't damaged, which is good enough for most people to be concerned with.
that would make sense, if doesn't crash anymore, assume it was the movie player unless something else happens.
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After a day, I think my mom used my laptop not knowing that it has problems. When I returned home to pick it up, it would reach the "Starting Windows" with the logo animation, then send me to a black screen with white text giving two options:
1. Repair something. I forgot what it said.
2. Start Windows Normally.
I tried option 2 but it kept sending me to the same black screen with text.
Starting 4 days ago, I get pop-ups from Soluto about once per day saying that "Cockatrice crashed / looking for solution" and of course not finding one. At all times this happened, I wasn't even running Cockatrice. I have not experienced any crashes during prior attempts to run the application.
Can anyone with experience in either of these programs tell me what the hell is going on??
EDIT: This has happened, like clockwork, every day at 12:25 PM PST.
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The problem goes away randomly, sometimes allowing me to get on and do stuff. It then randomly cuts to black again and doesn't show up on the TV again just like the last time.
Anyone know the problem?
EDIT: It seems to be the graphics card's problem. I swapped it out with one I borrowed, and the computer has been on for a couple of hours now, with no problems as of yet. I guess I should return the old card to Newegg and order a new one?
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I give it a bit, try starting it up a few more times, and finally get it to start loading aaaand it freezes while loading Win7. Restart it again, this time it starts up asking me if I want to do a start up recovery so I hit yes. It goes through it's thing, restarts and freezes as soon as it enters windows. Great.
Restarted it again, now it freezes on the MOBO logo screen (I guess you'd call that while it's loading BIOS), and some times not getting a video signal at all. Now, when it'll power up all the way (it still often times does the original not-powering-on-properly thing), I'm met with the sound of fans running at max and no video signal.
I have no idea wtf is wrong with it now. During all this I tried resetting the BIOS. I got out my Win7 disc because it's priority was set to boot from CD, but now I can't get a video signal or anything anyway. Normally after it starts and gets going when it's working, the fans quiet down, but now all the fans are just blasting at full speed with no video signal until I turn it off again. Also no power is going to my USB mouse that has some LED lights in it, because normally after it gets going the mouse lights come on.
FYI I'm running Win7 64-bit, a Radeon HD5770 video card, ASUS P5N-T MoBo, and a 750w ATX Power Supply, and an Intel QuadCore CPU (the model escapes me atm)
Edit:
After a suggestion from a friend I tried to reseat my processor and video card. It starts up consistently now, and I'm getting a video signal again, however it's shutting itself down after not too long at BIOS.
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My PS3 set up is giving me some trouble. I had it set up to put audio out through optical to my receiver/surround sound, and video out via HDMI directly to my tv. It worked fine for about 2 years until last week the sound started stuttering. Cutting in and out, basically. So I wiggled the optical cables a bit and it seemed to work fine in certain positions, but today it won't work at all. I've unplugged the optical cable, dusted it, etc, it just doesn't seem to be sending information from the PS3 to the receiver any more (I've checked to make sure the ps3 is still sending the audio signal through this). It's hard to play games without sound (and telling it to play sound through my tv sounds like trash. I have a surround system for a reason).
So, assuming the optical port on either my PS3 or Receiver is no longer functioning, how can I get this to work? The optical cable itself seems to be functioning, as there's red light coming from it when I unplug one end to check...
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Thanks. I grabbed a new cable to try this out and discovered the problem as soon as I hit it with a flashlight. The little door/hinge that covers the optical port on the receiver had come off its spring and fallen down into the canal, covering it completely. Easy tweezers fix..
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Keep it off for a day. Delete temporary internet files. Make sure you have a lot of memory. Make sure you aren't running any heavy applications.
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@Chaotix, I'd extract your favorites, documents, and anything else you need then use your restore disk. I wouldn't get my hopes up though, sounds like a faulty motherboard.
How old is the computer?
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And yes, I tried google for several hours now, so unless the force is not with me on google, I cannot find the answer there.
Edit: The video plays fine, everything on the external still works, I ran chkdsk and defraged already.
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It randomly freezes for a few minutes, comes back, usually saying that the display driver has failed and restarted, but when it does, my internal wireless card gets turned off. I'm unable to reconnect to my wireless, and when I run the troubleshooting, it is unable to repair it. When I attempt to turn off my laptop, it sits in the "windows is shutting down" screen (which means that there's a background program running, correct?). So I have to force shut down.
When I reboot, the internet is still disconnected, but when I run the troubleshooter it finds the problem that my internal wireless modem is turned off, and I can run the fix and it resets. After a while (sometimes 30 minutes, sometimes a few hours), it rinses and repeats.
I'll also note that every once in a great while when it freezes it blue screens with the error "driver power state failure"
Assuming it was something wrong with either my video driver or my wireless driver, I've made sure both are updated. Still happens.
I'm worried that it is some sort of malware or spyware that is attacking my computer (which would explain the freezing and the program running in the background). But sweeps from both Malwarebytes and my anti-virus program have come up empty.
My only other explanation is that there's something wrong with the actual hardware inside of the machine. But I don't know enough about the anatomy of my laptop to risk opening it up and taking a look.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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