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J. Kirk

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  1. In my experience over heating cards will freeze the computer. Also defective gpu will freeze or artifact. So please answer these questions.

    1. Does the pc still work when the screen goes black? I.e do u still hear game sounds.

    2. Do u have a on board graphics card?

    3. Have u tried using a different monitor?

    4. Have u replaced the vga/dvi/hdmi cable?

  2. Name: Ultranator

    Rank: Awesome

    Type of issue: Probably both Hardware and software.

    Brief Description of Issue: I'm currently having a few issues:

    1, Firstly, I've been having issues when, while playing DoD:S, my screens goes to black, and the sound stutters. Then it crashes to desktop with the sound going on in the background, but I open DoD:S back up without freezing the screen. In fact, I cant do anything on the computer really, until I open the task manager and force DoD:S to close. I've already tried updating my drivers, but it's already at the most up to date.

    2, I have 4 USB ports in the back of my PC that are part of the mother board, and 2 on the front of the case. I currently cant get the top one of the 2 on the front to work, and the bottom one was not working well either the other day. My steal series mouse died in one of the back ones last week, and I had to unplug it and put it in a different slot to get it to work. Since then, my mouse 4 button stopped working, but everything else is working on it.

    3, Yesterday, when I booted up my pc, and logged into windows 7, it gave me an error saying that Windows Explorer had stopped working and was reloading, or something. It didn't come up again today, but since then I can't get my task bar to work unless, I ctrl alt delete and open task manager. After that it works just fine.

    So, those are my current PC issues. Please if anyone has any ideas for any of these, let me know. I was thinking about doing a reformat eventually, but I do not remember where the windows disk I got from the guy I bought this from is since I moved, and my wife is not excited about having to backup all of her teaching documents, which now that I'm thinking about it, I really should just do a backup anyways.

    ***Medical Supply Staff ONLY Below this line***

    Current Status: (Researching, Pending Reply, Resolved, Unresolved)

    Main Technician:

    Supporting Technician:

    Hardware issues make themselves very apparent 99% of the time. To me this sounds like more of an OS issue. Id recommend running full virus/spyware scans. in cmd prompt Running chkdsk /r. If this doesn't do anything to your system at all and you keep experience the same problem we can try and hook up via vent and i can send you a hardware diag disk. Most likly I expect a possible full reinstall of the OS .

  3. If what cast said doesn't work

    1. Clean the pc of any dust especally the graphics card

    2. Defrag and clean pc of temp files

    3. Check msconfig startup for any unneeded startup items

    4. Run full spyware and virus scan

    5. If all this doesn't fix it uninstall reinstall dod if lag is only happening in dod

    6.still having issues two options left hardware tests or reinstall the OS.

  4. Check the device manager, in the DVD/CD-ROM drives section. Check if it is recognizing the corresponding device for your optical drive.

    The device you are looking for should look like the following;

    Example: hp DVD A DH16AAL SCSI Cdrom device

    The manufacturer name, DVD A, followed by a product number.

    To piggy back off of Holland's post. If there is a yellow warning mark next it, this is normally a registry fix that can be fixed by changing the lower and upper filters for the drive. If you have this please tell me and when I get off i will see if i still have the registry fix file. This most commonly happens when multiple pieces of software have access to the burning function of the cd-rom. Most common was I-tunes around updates when i would see this in my tech support job.

    microsoft has a fix for this on there website http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314060

    It seems to be the problem. I have that yellow warning sign you are talking about and tried the link you gave me. But I have Windows 7 and I can't edit the registry myself, I have to run the Windows troubleshooter but that thing can't fix the problem itself... I'm kind of stuck. I get a message telling me that there is a problem with the driver, it reinstalls the driver but that doesn't fix anything at all. It also tells me that "the modifications might not have been detected" (I'm translating all this from the french messages I get so that might not be the exact words though).

    IF you could i have the actual registry file. Provide me an email and ill send it with the instructions.

  5. Check the device manager, in the DVD/CD-ROM drives section. Check if it is recognizing the corresponding device for your optical drive.

    The device you are looking for should look like the following;

    Example: hp DVD A DH16AAL SCSI Cdrom device

    The manufacturer name, DVD A, followed by a product number.

    To piggy back off of Holland's post. If there is a yellow warning mark next it, this is normally a registry fix that can be fixed by changing the lower and upper filters for the drive. If you have this please tell me and when I get off i will see if i still have the registry fix file. This most commonly happens when multiple pieces of software have access to the burning function of the cd-rom. Most common was I-tunes around updates when i would see this in my tech support job.

    microsoft has a fix for this on there website http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314060

  6. Check the device manager, in the DVD/CD-ROM drives section. Check if it is recognizing the corresponding device for your optical drive.

    The device you are looking for should look like the following;

    Example: hp DVD A DH16AAL SCSI Cdrom device

    The manufacturer name, DVD A, followed by a product number.

    To piggy back off of Holland's post. If there is a yellow warning mark next it, this is normally a registry fix that can be fixed by changing the lower and upper filters for the drive. If you have this please tell me and when I get off i will see if i still have the registry fix file. This most commonly happens when multiple pieces of software have access to the burning function of the cd-rom. Most common was I-tunes around updates when i would see this in my tech support job.

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