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On May 24 2012 06:39 TheToast wrote:Show nested quote +On May 23 2012 21:05 Nuttyguy wrote:I have a d3 icon in my task bar and i cant remove it, cant right click on it. When i open d3 it opens another window. ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/sFZzW.png) How do i remove it? It looks like it's just a pinned Start Menu shortcut, which when utilizing the "vista" setup of the Windows 7 task bar just sit there. Should be able to right click on it and select "unpin from start menu" or just click and drag it to the trash.
Not right clickable. im on w7 fyi.
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On May 24 2012 07:17 JingleHell wrote:Show nested quote +On May 24 2012 07:13 Sovano wrote:On May 24 2012 07:08 JingleHell wrote:On May 24 2012 06:59 Sovano wrote:
Well I just tried the paperclip method. My PSU is functional, so it's not dead. Could that mean that it is my mobo? My computer is like literally 10 years old, but my parents are so gosh darn cheap, so they'd replace a mobo if that's all it took to get the secondary computer running again. If they're that cheap would they risk spending money on what people on an internet forum said? Better safe than sorry, should just get them to shell out for something new.  Something that ancient, hardware is going to be absurdly disproportionate in cost, so it's actually better to just go new. I would imagine their logic would be that if you could spend a fraction of the cost instead of buying a whole new computer to fix a old one, they'd rather fix the old one. Plus they can just RMA it, which I had to do with my last HDD. Typical asian parents haha, at least where I live that's how it goes. But yeah I've been trying to convince them for a while now lol. I haven't told them about the computer yet, and I was able to fix it last time. Although this time around I'm not so sure. I've always been using really low-end computers, so I'm used to it. Uhm, there's always the option of temporarily removing the CPU cooler and booting it over and over until it won't boot anymore to convince them it needs to be replaced. Just put the cooler back on before you tell them. Uhm, bear in mind, this WILL damage your CPU. Which is kind of the idea. You seriously shouldn't be even considering replacing a motherboard on something that old. Odds are, it will cost 45-50% of what a new low end rig would cost, especially if you already have a new HDD.
Oh I my post while you were posting your post. Was asking if I can build a cheap desktop at the end. Anyways, they don't know anything about electronics, so there's no need to do anything rash like that lol. I'm the only one in my entire family that knows a darn thing about computers.
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On May 24 2012 07:20 Sovano wrote:Show nested quote +On May 24 2012 07:17 JingleHell wrote:On May 24 2012 07:13 Sovano wrote:On May 24 2012 07:08 JingleHell wrote:On May 24 2012 06:59 Sovano wrote:
Well I just tried the paperclip method. My PSU is functional, so it's not dead. Could that mean that it is my mobo? My computer is like literally 10 years old, but my parents are so gosh darn cheap, so they'd replace a mobo if that's all it took to get the secondary computer running again. If they're that cheap would they risk spending money on what people on an internet forum said? Better safe than sorry, should just get them to shell out for something new. Something that ancient, hardware is going to be absurdly disproportionate in cost, so it's actually better to just go new. I would imagine their logic would be that if you could spend a fraction of the cost instead of buying a whole new computer to fix a old one, they'd rather fix the old one. Plus they can just RMA it, which I had to do with my last HDD. Typical asian parents haha, at least where I live that's how it goes. But yeah I've been trying to convince them for a while now lol. I haven't told them about the computer yet, and I was able to fix it last time. Although this time around I'm not so sure. I've always been using really low-end computers, so I'm used to it. Uhm, there's always the option of temporarily removing the CPU cooler and booting it over and over until it won't boot anymore to convince them it needs to be replaced. Just put the cooler back on before you tell them. Uhm, bear in mind, this WILL damage your CPU. Which is kind of the idea. You seriously shouldn't be even considering replacing a motherboard on something that old. Odds are, it will cost 45-50% of what a new low end rig would cost, especially if you already have a new HDD. Oh I my post while you were posting your post. Was asking if I can build a cheap desktop at the end. Anyways, they don't know anything about electronics, so there's no need to do anything rash like that lol. I'm the only one in my entire family that knows a darn thing about computers.
Since you said you just got a new HDD, $400-500 for something infinitely better is feasible. I'm terrible at the pricematch game, but there's some guys in the build resource thread who have fun with it.
Basically, cheap intel rig with a lower end gaming graphics card should be possible to squeeze.
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On May 24 2012 07:22 JingleHell wrote:Show nested quote +On May 24 2012 07:20 Sovano wrote:On May 24 2012 07:17 JingleHell wrote:On May 24 2012 07:13 Sovano wrote:On May 24 2012 07:08 JingleHell wrote:On May 24 2012 06:59 Sovano wrote:
Well I just tried the paperclip method. My PSU is functional, so it's not dead. Could that mean that it is my mobo? My computer is like literally 10 years old, but my parents are so gosh darn cheap, so they'd replace a mobo if that's all it took to get the secondary computer running again. If they're that cheap would they risk spending money on what people on an internet forum said? Better safe than sorry, should just get them to shell out for something new. Something that ancient, hardware is going to be absurdly disproportionate in cost, so it's actually better to just go new. I would imagine their logic would be that if you could spend a fraction of the cost instead of buying a whole new computer to fix a old one, they'd rather fix the old one. Plus they can just RMA it, which I had to do with my last HDD. Typical asian parents haha, at least where I live that's how it goes. But yeah I've been trying to convince them for a while now lol. I haven't told them about the computer yet, and I was able to fix it last time. Although this time around I'm not so sure. I've always been using really low-end computers, so I'm used to it. Uhm, there's always the option of temporarily removing the CPU cooler and booting it over and over until it won't boot anymore to convince them it needs to be replaced. Just put the cooler back on before you tell them. Uhm, bear in mind, this WILL damage your CPU. Which is kind of the idea. You seriously shouldn't be even considering replacing a motherboard on something that old. Odds are, it will cost 45-50% of what a new low end rig would cost, especially if you already have a new HDD. Oh I my post while you were posting your post. Was asking if I can build a cheap desktop at the end. Anyways, they don't know anything about electronics, so there's no need to do anything rash like that lol. I'm the only one in my entire family that knows a darn thing about computers. Since you said you just got a new HDD, $400-500 for something infinitely better is feasible.
No actually I RMA'd the HDD since it had a blue screen error. It was only $20 lol. I'll ask them tonight if I can build a new one then. Hopefully they'll agree. Anyways thanks for the help everyone.
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I have a 4 year old 640GB seagate HDD. Today, a dialogue box kept popping up, reading "hard disk problem." Does this mean for certain that the HDD is dying, or could it be a driver, mobo, ram, etc. problem. What are the best ways that I can go about diagnosing this problem?
Chkdsk showed up with no errors, so I assume it's something with the SMART monitoring.
Btw I'm on win7 64bit, and I recently installed a new mobo+cpu+ram into the machine.
Thanks!
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On May 24 2012 12:41 minitelemaster wrote:
I have a 4 year old 640GB seagate HDD. Today, a dialogue box kept popping up, reading "hard disk problem." Does this mean for certain that the HDD is dying, or could it be a driver, mobo, ram, etc. problem. What are the best ways that I can go about diagnosing this problem?
Well, if it really says "hard disk problem", it's probably just malware.
If you're paraphrasing the message, don't do that in a tech support thread.
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On May 24 2012 14:01 jaj22 wrote:Show nested quote +On May 24 2012 12:41 minitelemaster wrote:
I have a 4 year old 640GB seagate HDD. Today, a dialogue box kept popping up, reading "hard disk problem." Does this mean for certain that the HDD is dying, or could it be a driver, mobo, ram, etc. problem. What are the best ways that I can go about diagnosing this problem?
Well, if it really says "hard disk problem", it's probably just malware. If you're paraphrasing the message, don't do that in a tech support thread.
It's not malware, the exact dialogue box can be seen here. It's a well documented issue, but there are few answers and explanations online. I'm just wondering how I verify completely that the HDD is the problem, as well as any other troubleshooting tips people have.
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hello how do i get rid of the MSY logo?
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Without overclocking will this rig stream SC2/D3 on max settings 720p using x-split without too much slowdown? (Radeon 7850 added separately.)
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You want a Hyper 212+ or EVO instead of the H60, both are almost the same in cooling but the H60 costs twice as much and is a little louder.
You don't need a 650w power supply. It would be much better to go with a reliable, good quality 450w or so PSU (Your entire system will only run at about 275 watts max load)
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I don't need this strong of a PSU today, you're right. But next time I upgrade say GPU I will not regret having a good, quality PSU. Also running the computer under 50% load will ensure cool and quiet until then. I also am not a big fan of heavy bulky air coolers.
While I appreciate your concern, my question was regarding stream performance. 
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you won't need it, GPU power consumption has lowered significantly this generation, probably be the same for next gen too. A good quality 450w will be as silent as any other PSU. But if you insist go ahead.
And yes it will do your stream @ 720p if you overclock a little.
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i just got a 2700k and an asrock z77 pro3 motherboard. everything was going fine until tried to install the drivers on the CD that came with the board. It just shut down without any notice and will not boot into w7. It will either blue screen or give me the option to restore the pc my other specs are.
His 6870
8gb microcenter ram
corsair ax650
please and thank you for helping.
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On May 25 2012 06:08 MisterJulianMan wrote:
i just got a 2700k and an asrock z77 pro3 motherboard. everything was going fine until tried to install the drivers on the CD that came with the board. It just shut down without any notice and will not boot into w7. It will either blue screen or give me the option to restore the pc my other specs are.
His 6870
8gb microcenter ram
corsair ax650
please and thank you for helping.
Go to the Asrock site and DL the chipset drivers through them, you'll have newer versions that way anyway.
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On May 24 2012 14:15 minitelemaster wrote:It's not malware, the exact dialogue box can be seen here. It's a well documented issue, but there are few answers and explanations online. I'm just wondering how I verify completely that the HDD is the problem, as well as any other troubleshooting tips people have.
Well, that's probably real, but it's apparently undocumented by Microsoft and no-one is sure exactly what it means.
Anyway, get CrystalDiskInfo and post a complete screenshot (one with all the information visible in the vertical scrolling box).
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I dled the drivers and windows updates but still got errors/bsod I don't know what to do
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On May 25 2012 06:41 jaj22 wrote:Show nested quote +On May 24 2012 14:15 minitelemaster wrote:It's not malware, the exact dialogue box can be seen here. It's a well documented issue, but there are few answers and explanations online. I'm just wondering how I verify completely that the HDD is the problem, as well as any other troubleshooting tips people have. Well, that's probably real, but it's apparently undocumented by Microsoft and no-one is sure exactly what it means. Anyway, get CrystalDiskInfo and post a complete screenshot (one with all the information visible in the vertical scrolling box).
Thanks for the info. I'll check out CrystalDiskInfo as soon as I get home. Btw, I ran SeaTools this morning (the long test) and the HDD failed it: "SMART has been tripped."
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On May 25 2012 06:41 jaj22 wrote:Show nested quote +On May 24 2012 14:15 minitelemaster wrote:It's not malware, the exact dialogue box can be seen here. It's a well documented issue, but there are few answers and explanations online. I'm just wondering how I verify completely that the HDD is the problem, as well as any other troubleshooting tips people have. Well, that's probably real, but it's apparently undocumented by Microsoft and no-one is sure exactly what it means. Anyway, get CrystalDiskInfo and post a complete screenshot (one with all the information visible in the vertical scrolling box).
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Here's the screenshot, hope it means something to you, as all I can decipher is that blue=good and red=bad. As you said this issue is undocumented by Microsoft, is there a possibility that malware is messing with this reading?
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Nah, Microsoft just don't bother documenting some stuff. Looks like they're actually doing some basic SMART checks in Win7.
That's definitely a dying HD. 3063 reallocated sectors and counting. It'll run out of spare sectors at ~4096. Malware wouldn't bother to hook the SMART reporting.
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On May 25 2012 11:52 jaj22 wrote:
Nah, Microsoft just don't bother documenting some stuff. Looks like they're actually doing some basic SMART checks in Win7.
That's definitely a dying HD. 3063 reallocated sectors and counting. It'll run out of spare sectors at ~4096. Malware wouldn't bother to hook the SMART reporting.
Thanks for the explanation. I'm confused though, where do you get those numbers, all I see are double and triple digit values? Also, out of curiosity I ran crystaldiskscan on another good computer and the reallocated sectors value seemed higher, but the disk was "good." What I take from this is that I don't know how to read the crystal disk information.
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