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PC_Arcade
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Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 12:13 am Post subject: Re: New PC: WIP |
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Are you drives showing as UDMA in windows BTW?
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Slayer
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Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 5:31 pm Post subject: Re: New PC: WIP |
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The Ancient One Joined: Mon Jan 22, 2007 9:13 pm Posts: 7875
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Well, tried HUTIL, but it did nothing. I burnt it to a CD, put it in the drive, started up the PC with the drive set first, but jack sh*t. PC_Arcade wrote: | Are you drives showing as UDMA in windows BTW? |
No, they're showing transfermode as "DMA if possible". But at "present transfermode" they show as "not applicable" or "not of application" and the boxes are greyed out. I'm not sure what it is called, as I have a Dutch system now.
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Oberon
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Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 5:55 pm Post subject: Re: New PC: WIP |
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Dead But Dreaming Joined: Sat Sep 09, 2006 3:07 am Posts: 337 Location: Lost in space and time
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Slayer wrote: | Well, tried HUTIL, but it did nothing. I burnt it to a CD, put it in the drive, started up the PC with the drive set first, but jack sh*t. PC_Arcade wrote: | Are you drives showing as UDMA in windows BTW? |
No, they're showing transfermode as "DMA if possible". But at "present transfermode" they show as "not applicable" or "not of application" and the boxes are greyed out. I'm not sure what it is called, as I have a Dutch system now. |
This riddle has turned into an enigma! As a 'safe' experiment, you could try 'uninstalling' the DVD drive via the device manager and reboot. Windows should detect it and reinstall the drive. Sometimes this resets any weird changes that may have been made to the drive. But honestly, that is just a shot in the dark....
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Slayer
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Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 5:56 pm Post subject: Re: New PC: WIP |
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The Ancient One Joined: Mon Jan 22, 2007 9:13 pm Posts: 7875
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Hehe, I was wondering if that would be a useful option, LOL. Now you're suggesting it. I'm gonnna do it tonight!
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Slayer
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Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 8:01 pm Post subject: Re: New PC: WIP |
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The Ancient One Joined: Mon Jan 22, 2007 9:13 pm Posts: 7875
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Mmm, tried it. After restarting the PC, I didn't even get the "new hardware found" notification. Nothing changed, the image files still play back very blocky.
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spudthedestroyer
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Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 9:20 pm Post subject: Re: New PC: WIP |
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Site Admin Joined: Sat Nov 02, 2002 1:35 am Posts: 19756 Location: En España
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you tried ubuntu?
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RedVeil
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Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 9:13 am Post subject: Re: New PC: WIP |
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PC_Arcade
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Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 1:52 pm Post subject: Re: New PC: WIP |
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BadBugs
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Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 7:36 pm Post subject: Re: New PC: WIP |
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The Ancient One Joined: Fri Jan 19, 2007 2:49 am Posts: 2624 Location: Chernobyl
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I suspect your problem is a faulty board. You can build your old pc on the table without a case, to test them in. Just sit a gfx card in the slot & plug a PSU into the board/drives. Its messy, but thats how 99/100 shops do it. Hope you get it fixed soon
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Slayer
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Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 10:14 pm Post subject: Re: New PC: WIP |
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The Ancient One Joined: Mon Jan 22, 2007 9:13 pm Posts: 7875
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Not much time in the near future. Gonna test some furhter thingies, maybe even try Ubuntu (do I have to install the entire OS to do so?) and if all fails, I'm gonna buy a new DVD burner. I don't really need a new HDD, so it's gonna be a pity, but I'll take the loss. My damage will be only 20 Euros something anyway.
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Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2008 1:49 am Post subject: Re: New PC: WIP |
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Dead But Dreaming Joined: Sat Sep 09, 2006 3:07 am Posts: 337 Location: Lost in space and time
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spudthedestroyer wrote: | you tried ubuntu? |
OMG smart ass! @ Slayer: Well, yeah, I'm out of ideas. Bad Bugs may have it right with a bad MB. If you have other optical drives to try out on the MB that would be another way to go. Other than that, I got nothing. Sorry...
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Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2008 8:48 am Post subject: Re: New PC: WIP |
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spudthedestroyer
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Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2008 7:55 pm Post subject: Re: New PC: WIP |
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RedVeil wrote: | spudthedestroyer wrote: | you tried ubuntu? |
Me finds it strange that spud always suggests trying ubuntu. I am curious, why is that? |
because it rules out windows being the problem, basic fault diagnostic you know, ubuntu can read NTFS partitions if necessary, and as you omited to you don't even have to install it. if you mean the choice of distro, its the one that supports the most hardware off the bat. @pca, actually I'm not a big fan of ubuntu, I generally use windows (and in this case vista), but i have a couple of ubuntu boxes, a suse box, use redhat and centos at work and used to use HPUX and Solaris
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Slayer
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Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2008 2:53 pm Post subject: Re: New PC: WIP |
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The Ancient One Joined: Mon Jan 22, 2007 9:13 pm Posts: 7875
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I'll try the livedisc next week (I don't have time this weekend). When it fails, I'm gonna buy a new DVD burner. It will be much less hassle than changing the MB.
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RedVeil
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Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2008 10:29 am Post subject: Re: New PC: WIP |
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spudthedestroyer
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Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2008 11:05 pm Post subject: Re: New PC: WIP |
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Site Admin Joined: Sat Nov 02, 2002 1:35 am Posts: 19756 Location: En España
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wine is sketchy; i've always used windows for games (although i've not really played a game in any format since before xmas).
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RedVeil
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Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 8:55 am Post subject: Re: New PC: WIP |
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spudthedestroyer
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Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 7:38 pm Post subject: Re: New PC: WIP |
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Site Admin Joined: Sat Nov 02, 2002 1:35 am Posts: 19756 Location: En España
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what about crysis, empire: total war, GTA4, etc?
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Slayer
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Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 8:01 pm Post subject: Re: New PC: WIP |
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The Ancient One Joined: Mon Jan 22, 2007 9:13 pm Posts: 7875
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Burnt the iso file in the link karst provided on page 1. Since I'm a total n00b with Ubuntu, I'm not sure what to do next. Nothing is happening so far, with the disc sitting in the drive.
Since the HUTIL thing failed, I thought maybe trying to solve a problem with the faulty DVD burner by using that same DVD burner to make a disc, might not be the best solution...
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Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 9:25 pm Post subject: Re: New PC: WIP |
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The Devil, Probably Joined: Thu Jul 03, 2003 9:45 pm Posts: 2321 Location: The Land Of The Virgin Queen
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Can you boot to the disc? Can you explore the disc... is it readable by the drive?
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