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Hey guys, I'm having a weird and infuriating issue.
My DVD drive won't read all DVDs. Some of them, it can, but not all. What's really weird is that there seems to be no logic tied to that. Like I got a double DVD from a liveshow boxset, DVD 1 is fine, but no way to read the second one.
Said drive is a matshita bd-cmb uj141af, which is know for having issues with region lock, but I assume that doesn't fit with 2 DVDs coming from the very same boxset.
Any idea ?
Edit : If it can help, the DVDs that won't work makes the drive start for a few sec, then make some kind of stuttering noises, then stop. Repeat all that 4/5 times, then completely stops. Whereas DVDs that works just play fine on first try.
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On May 24 2014 05:45 Cynry wrote:
Hey guys, I'm having a weird and infuriating issue.
My DVD drive won't read all DVDs. Some of them, it can, but not all. What's really weird is that there seems to be no logic tied to that. Like I got a double DVD from a liveshow boxset, DVD 1 is fine, but no way to read the second one.
Said drive is a matshita bd-cmb uj141af, which is know for having issues with region lock, but I assume that doesn't fit with 2 DVDs coming from the very same boxset.
Any idea ?
Edit : If it can help, the DVDs that won't work makes the drive start for a few sec, then make some kind of stuttering noises, then stop. Repeat all that 4/5 times, then completely stops. Whereas DVDs that works just play fine on first try.
Is there any printing on the DVDs that don't work? Difference in printing density or something?
And are they sitting "just right"?
I think drives these days will stop spinning for safety's sake if a disk is unbalanced. If you are wondering why, 52x CDs and cheap media back in the day.
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Anything I post outside of the massive resource thread doesn't get answered. Basically I just flashed my BIOS - 1st time ever - from my motherboards website + Show Spoiler + and now do I need to install Windows before any further updates pre-windows install?
I have to contact a screwdriver to my front panel to start the PC, and haven't installed a verified ISO to a USB drive to install Windows 7 - 64 bit from yet.
What do I do next to not waste a copy of Windows 7 retail?
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Making the .ISO right now. The BIOS I downloaded was the same version as the CD, the mobo was launched within a couple weeks.
Tyvm skyR and Cyro!
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I didn't say anything, figured skyR had it covered after he posted before i saw pm 
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Does TRIM activate automatically on new mobos? If I enable it, will it reset any data on my SSD?
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TRIM is an operating system command and should be automatically enabled if Windows 7 detects an SSD is installed. You can check (and turn it on if not already on) via command prompt and it does not disturb any data on the SSD.
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On May 24 2014 12:54 skyR wrote:
TRIM is an operating system command and should be automatically enabled if Windows 7 detects an SSD is installed. You can check (and turn it on if not already on) via command prompt and it does not disturb any data on the SSD.
I'm currently auto-updating Windows. I can't wait to install League of Legends and celebrate my Highwind's naked (open-air build until the case arrives a week late) maiden voyage!
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What is SWAP-usage? I'm seeing this on Rainmeter buy I don't understand what it measures?
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I believe that would be your page file.
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On May 24 2014 08:44 felisconcolori wrote:Show nested quote +On May 24 2014 05:45 Cynry wrote:
Hey guys, I'm having a weird and infuriating issue.
My DVD drive won't read all DVDs. Some of them, it can, but not all. What's really weird is that there seems to be no logic tied to that. Like I got a double DVD from a liveshow boxset, DVD 1 is fine, but no way to read the second one.
Said drive is a matshita bd-cmb uj141af, which is know for having issues with region lock, but I assume that doesn't fit with 2 DVDs coming from the very same boxset.
Any idea ?
Edit : If it can help, the DVDs that won't work makes the drive start for a few sec, then make some kind of stuttering noises, then stop. Repeat all that 4/5 times, then completely stops. Whereas DVDs that works just play fine on first try. Is there any printing on the DVDs that don't work? Difference in printing density or something? And are they sitting "just right"? I think drives these days will stop spinning for safety's sake if a disk is unbalanced. If you are wondering why, 52x CDs and cheap media back in the day.
Both DVDs are exactly the same printingwise, both are in perfect condition. It seems to fit right in, too.
If the tech shop in town has some external drives, that will be a fixed issue...
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Is there any way to get rid of coil whine on a GPU? High FPS has my card whining so much it's slightly annoying (when in game menus). That, or perhaps someone knows about a FPS limiter?
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On May 24 2014 19:26 Incognoto wrote:
Is there any way to get rid of coil whine on a GPU? High FPS has my card whining so much it's slightly annoying (when in game menus). That, or perhaps someone knows about a FPS limiter?
The whine will change if there's a different voltage flowing through those parts. So what you can do is increase or decrease voltage, play around with overclocking the card. Is that possible on the current cards with that dynamic power management stuff they have? On my somewhat older card, you're simply configuring a fixed voltage and MHz for the core so changing the nature of the coil whine is easy.
On a GPU, you can't do anything more than that. The parts that create the noise don't have exposed wires where you could maybe try to put a drop of glue on them or something. That would only be possible if it's parts like this here as in a PSU: http://i.imgur.com/bpgPDPk.png
Interestingly, my GTX 560 Ti got kind of cured after being overclocked a lot for a few months. It now doesn't whine as much even at its normal voltage.
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Tried to force constant voltage to see if that changed anything, it didn't.
I may try to up the voltage and see if it works out. I read somewhere that someone fixed coil whine by opening crysis's menu overnight. I imagine that the current flowing through the wires helps heat up the glue or whatever the coils are in, which takes a form which isolates sound. I've had this card for a while now though and the problem hasn't gone away.
I didn't try leaving it on for a while though. The very thought makes me uncomfortable, but I'll try. Thanks for the tip.
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I also would be afraid to let it run overnight with that whine. I know people say that the coil whine is nothing bad really, totally normal, but I can't help being scared when hearing it.
This card I have that fixed itself, I just used my card normally. I let it run at 1.1V instead of its default 1.025V. It was running a good bit hotter than normal, but the whine was a lot better like that so it actually didn't feel scary.
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Ah really then in that case I'll be upping the voltage and seeing where that gets me. gtg now so no time to do it, but i'll keep ya posted.
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The 6GB line of GTX 780s came out within the last week from what I can tell -- went pretty much instantly out of stock.
Any idea how far behind the TI line is running?
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If you are running something like a NAS in RAID-1 configuration with 2 HDDs) whenever you are writing data, does it write to both at the same time?
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On May 26 2014 15:41 Craton wrote:
The 6GB line of GTX 780s came out within the last week from what I can tell -- went pretty much instantly out of stock.
Any idea how far behind the TI line is running?
We're not getting 6gb 780ti's AFAIK - some guy from EVGA? posted that they were not allowed to make them in the thread on OCN
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