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by soccergenius
Thu Jan 10, 2019 8:12 pm
Forum: General Hardware
Topic: Won't Get Past BIOS Screen
Replies: 6
Views: 4592

Re: Won't Get Past BIOS Screen

Thank you guys for help! Ludi, it looks like resetting the BIOS by pulling the battery (mobo still uses jumpers) did the trick! :D
by soccergenius
Thu Jan 10, 2019 1:34 pm
Forum: General Hardware
Topic: Won't Get Past BIOS Screen
Replies: 6
Views: 4592

Won't Get Past BIOS Screen

My sister has an i5 3500 (?) on some gigabyte board with 4 sticks of 4GB RAM. It's been working fine until this morning when it was stuck on the BIOS splash screen. She said she left it on overnight and told me it did a Windows 10 update overnight. At the BIOS screen "delete" won't go into...
by soccergenius
Tue Dec 15, 2015 9:44 pm
Forum: General Software
Topic: Dear avast, i'm done with ya
Replies: 50
Views: 5802

Re: Dear avast, i'm done with ya

Off topic: I've had this problem with Windows 10 popups ever since I installed Win7 Pro. Every 15-20 minutes. Grrrrr. On topic: Kasperksy is a little more low key. But it still tries to grab every password entry box and "secure" it. If Kaspersky ever gets owned, so will my passwords. It c...
by soccergenius
Tue Dec 15, 2015 9:39 pm
Forum: Motherboards, Chipsets, & RAM
Topic: Long Boot Time With 16 GB RAM
Replies: 23
Views: 3519

Re: Long Boot Time With 16 GB RAM

I think this will be my last update for the issue :) As I already posted, I attempted a system image restore using the Windows functionality, but cancelled the process. Upon that reboot, the boot time was normal again! (Weird?) I backed up my FO:NV saves (very important) and proceeded with the image...
by soccergenius
Sun Dec 13, 2015 10:09 pm
Forum: Motherboards, Chipsets, & RAM
Topic: Long Boot Time With 16 GB RAM
Replies: 23
Views: 3519

Re: Long Boot Time With 16 GB RAM

If you return to completely normal clocks does it boot up normally or still take forever? I wouldn't do anything else until I had an answer to this question. (Apologies if you did and I missed it in the thread). Returning to stock speeds didn't seem to affect the boot times. Boot via Linux on a USB...
by soccergenius
Sun Dec 13, 2015 6:25 pm
Forum: Motherboards, Chipsets, & RAM
Topic: Long Boot Time With 16 GB RAM
Replies: 23
Views: 3519

Re: Long Boot Time With 16 GB RAM

Try checking the event viewer here's a link that might be of help: Use Windows 7 Event Viewer to track down issues that cause slower boot times There is also this but I'm not sure this is the problem your experiencing: The Windows 7 startup process is slow when you create many restore points I have...
by soccergenius
Sun Dec 13, 2015 4:00 am
Forum: Motherboards, Chipsets, & RAM
Topic: Long Boot Time With 16 GB RAM
Replies: 23
Views: 3519

Re: Long Boot Time With 16 GB RAM

Just to be clear, it loads the BIOS just fine and the stall is in the Windows loading screen? It's the Windows loading screen that takes 30~45 seconds now, instead of the previous 5 (used to boot before it could finish the animation). Since you are overclocking the 2500K it is possible the BSOD mig...
by soccergenius
Sun Dec 13, 2015 12:47 am
Forum: Motherboards, Chipsets, & RAM
Topic: Long Boot Time With 16 GB RAM
Replies: 23
Views: 3519

Long Boot Time With 16 GB RAM

Last Thursday my usually stable PC BSOD while playing WoW. I didn't think too much of it until it rebooted after the memory dump. That reboot and every one since now takes about 5x as long (at the Windows 7 load screen) to get to my desktop. I was able to narrow it down to my RAM. I currently have 2...
by soccergenius
Wed Oct 30, 2013 10:05 am
Forum: Apple Sanctuary
Topic: Anand:64 bit iOS taking 30% more RAM to do the same things.
Replies: 31
Views: 14115

Re: Anand:64 bit iOS taking 30% more RAM to do the same thin

On the same page of the review: http://www.anandtech.com/show/7460/apple-ipad-air-review/3 You can see the 5s throttles back its CPU frequency to about 1GHz after the 2 minute mark. The crazy thing is that until that point the 5s manages to run at full frequency without so much as a hiccup for two f...
by soccergenius
Thu Jan 10, 2013 8:02 pm
Forum: Graphics
Topic: [Solved] No HDMI Output After Waking
Replies: 8
Views: 6387

Re: No HDMI Output After Waking

I swapped in a different HDMI cable, put the compy to sleep for dinner and it successfully woke up. I won't declare total victory until I can go at least tomorrow without any display issues but it looks like the HDMI cable may have been the culprit. (I couldn't get an HDMI signal the very first time...
by soccergenius
Thu Jan 10, 2013 2:54 pm
Forum: Graphics
Topic: [Solved] No HDMI Output After Waking
Replies: 8
Views: 6387

Re: No HDMI Output After Waking

I'll try another HDMI cable. I hadn't thought to try one since I don't have this problem with the card this replaced (560 Ti 448), I had to put the old one back in while my first 660 Ti was being RMA'd and sleep worked just fine :evil: . I've used two driver versions with this card, 310.70 and 310.9...
by soccergenius
Wed Jan 09, 2013 10:16 pm
Forum: Graphics
Topic: [Solved] No HDMI Output After Waking
Replies: 8
Views: 6387

[Solved] No HDMI Output After Waking

I recently upgraded to a ZOTAC AMP! GTX 660 Ti but I've encountered a frustrating issue: after the computer sleeps and I wake it up, I don't get a display signal over HDMI (I even get the Windows chime when a device is disconnected). I didn't have this problem with my old card (560 Ti 448). I've tri...
by soccergenius
Wed Jan 26, 2011 1:03 am
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Enter our MSI GeForce GTX 560 Ti giveaway here
Replies: 1004
Views: 71969

Re: Enter our MSI GeForce GTX 560 Ti giveaway here

I hope I win!
by soccergenius
Tue Jul 13, 2010 12:35 pm
Forum: Networking
Topic: Reconnect Problems with WRT120N
Replies: 5
Views: 2419

Re: Reconnect Problems with WRT120N

The firmware is up to date.
by soccergenius
Mon Jul 12, 2010 1:47 pm
Forum: Networking
Topic: Reconnect Problems with WRT120N
Replies: 5
Views: 2419

Re: Reconnect Problems with WRT120N

It's the default SSID, but there are no other Linksys networks in range. Besides, that doesn't explain why when I reset the router, the devices can connect again.
by soccergenius
Sat Jul 10, 2010 8:14 am
Forum: Networking
Topic: Reconnect Problems with WRT120N
Replies: 5
Views: 2419

Re: Reconnect Problems with WRT120N

24 hour bump, no replies :(
by soccergenius
Fri Jul 09, 2010 8:00 am
Forum: Networking
Topic: Reconnect Problems with WRT120N
Replies: 5
Views: 2419

Reconnect Problems with WRT120N

I bought this Linksys router to replace our old one that was disconnecting us several times a day. The new one has no such problems, but one that seems almost as annoying. When I first setup my new router (and after resets) everything is fine. But after about a day, devices that have spent time off ...
by soccergenius
Tue Sep 16, 2008 4:19 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Techreport.com timing out
Replies: 10
Views: 1033

Re: Techreport.com timing out

Yeah it's happening to me too. I have to click on links and my bookmark to techreport twice most of the time. If I wait I get the timed out page :cry: I think this just started happening over the weekend.
by soccergenius
Mon Sep 01, 2008 4:53 pm
Forum: Motherboards, Chipsets, & RAM
Topic: I think my mobo died, now what?
Replies: 3
Views: 1015

I think my mobo died, now what?

We left for the weekend and my sister's computer was fine, we shut it off before we left. We got back today and when she turned it on, it wouldn't post and she told me she heard weird popping/scratching noises. I think I've checked it pretty thoroughly, switched around all the ram, removed non-essen...
by soccergenius
Thu Jul 03, 2008 1:21 am
Forum: Motherboards, Chipsets, & RAM
Topic: Wait a minute!
Replies: 2
Views: 993

Re: Wait a minute!

Yes, it has integrated audio.
by soccergenius
Sat Jun 28, 2008 12:49 am
Forum: Networking
Topic: Who else has a sucky ISP?
Replies: 49
Views: 4587

Re: Who else has a sucky ISP?

I've got Cox Cable here in Kansas and I'm not very happy with it. We pay for a 7mb/768kb connection. Most of the time the connection is great and very fast, but a several times a day, every day, we get massive lag spikes. I did a speedtest about an hour ago and I got 5mb down and ~380kb up. 5 minute...
by soccergenius
Wed Jun 04, 2008 11:19 am
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Worst PC infection you've seen
Replies: 38
Views: 3137

Re: Worst PC infection you've seen

I had a friend give me her laptop because messenger wasn't working. It's funny now because messenger was the least of it's problems, it had about 6 separate infections for about 120+ infected objects. I knew right away something was wrong because once on my network at home it would reboot before win...
by soccergenius
Fri Apr 25, 2008 9:33 pm
Forum: Apple Sanctuary
Topic: 1st time calling Apple
Replies: 9
Views: 1941

Re: 1st time calling Apple

When the 2gen Nanos came out, I bought an 8gig one from my campus computer store, but it turned out to be defective; it would frequently crash itself. I kept it too long trying to fix it so my campus store wouldn't take it back (three weeks). I called apple and they asked me if I had tried the 5 R's...
by soccergenius
Sat Mar 08, 2008 8:44 am
Forum: General Software
Topic: Recovering/Removing BIOS password
Replies: 12
Views: 15614

Re: Recovering/Removing BIOS password

Heiwashin wrote:
Well, i meant the op. I understood your post which made me realize i might have misunderstood the problem.


The password in question is to access the BIOS setup. Everything else is ok. Thanks for the replies :)
by soccergenius
Sat Mar 08, 2008 2:12 am
Forum: General Software
Topic: Recovering/Removing BIOS password
Replies: 12
Views: 15614

Re: Recovering/Removing BIOS password

Heiwashin wrote:
open it up and pop out your cmos battery for a while and it'll reset it almost for sure.


I've already looked long and hard for that elusive battery but I couldn't find it. Is there anything software-wise that I can do?
by soccergenius
Sat Mar 08, 2008 12:15 am
Forum: General Software
Topic: Recovering/Removing BIOS password
Replies: 12
Views: 15614

Recovering/Removing BIOS password

So when I bought my lappy about 2 years ago I set up a BIOS password. Looking back I really have no idea why, but I didn't write down the password anywhere and I can't remember it :evil: . I emailed acer support and they told me that it can only be fixed/removed by sending it to them and forking ove...
by soccergenius
Sun Mar 02, 2008 11:05 am
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Schooling the wanabees
Replies: 42
Views: 3436

Re: Schooling the wanabees

What do you think of this poor guy, trying to sell a computer on TV?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxXmPFxf2Jg

I wonder though if he really did try his hardest to crash it :lol:
by soccergenius
Wed Jan 09, 2008 12:53 pm
Forum: Graphics
Topic: would an over heated GPU freeze a PC
Replies: 11
Views: 1780

How much paste did you use? More isn't better in this case, if you use too much you run the risk of overheating. Also if the heatsink isn't perfectly seated and making full, flat contact than you again run the risk of improper cooling. Try looking at it again, see if you have too much paste, and car...
by soccergenius
Wed Jan 09, 2008 10:17 am
Forum: Graphics
Topic: would an over heated GPU freeze a PC
Replies: 11
Views: 1780

To answer your question, I had a desktop that if the vid card overheated it would lock the computer with artifacts. If it was the cpu it would reboot the computer and if it was the mobo it would just hand the computer. I learned afterwards I couldn't o'c in Puerto Rico during the summer without ac. ...
by soccergenius
Sun Dec 30, 2007 12:33 pm
Forum: Overclocking, Tweaking, & Cooling
Topic: Overclocking my laptop
Replies: 12
Views: 2216

Although I found I couldn't overclock my notebook's CPU (1.67GHz), I could overclock my GPU, a Mobility Radeon X1600, with ATI Tool :D It adds about 7 FPS in most of my games.
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