Oh, and the first time I tried to run a Source game, the screen started to dim for like a split second, and then it locked up. After killing the process in Task Manager, I got a UAC message asking me if I wanted to let HL2.exe run.
I disabled UAC and everything was fine.
Anybody else have problems with UAC and Source?
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every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.
I honestly don't think I've even used a screen saver since like, 1997. First thing I do is turn it off, and set my monitor to turn off after 20 min. screensavers might be pretty to look at, but there's no point when my monitor could just be off and not using power.
Personally, I don't want my monitor turning off every 5 minutes (mainly because my monitor defaults to the inactive VGA connection when it wakes), and if I step away from the computer for longer than that, I don't want the brightness interfering with whatever else I may be doing, like watching TV or playing a console game.
Oh, and the first time I tried to run a Source game, the screen started to dim for like a split second, and then it locked up. After killing the process in Task Manager, I got a UAC message asking me if I wanted to let HL2.exe run.
I disabled UAC and everything was fine.
Anybody else have problems with UAC and Source?
No, but I haven't launched HL2 specifically. I have played L4D and TF2 plenty, though. Actually, I had UAC disabled in Vista, but haven't found a need to in 7.
Oh, and the first time I tried to run a Source game, the screen started to dim for like a split second, and then it locked up. After killing the process in Task Manager, I got a UAC message asking me if I wanted to let HL2.exe run.
I disabled UAC and everything was fine.
Anybody else have problems with UAC and Source?
No, but I haven't launched HL2 specifically. I have played L4D and TF2 plenty, though. Actually, I had UAC disabled in Vista, but haven't found a need to in 7.
Out of spite, I shut it off right away on both my installs.
Just been playing around with Virtual hard drives, unlike daemon tools and alcohol it virtually created a partition and stores it on a HD. Kinda useful but useless for my ISOs some which need to read a CD drive.
Just been playing around with Virtual hard drives, unlike daemon tools and alcohol it virtually created a partition and stores it on a HD. Kinda useful but useless for my ISOs some which need to read a CD drive.
I thought someone posted an article about using VHD's to essentially dualboot into another OS, without the virtual layer aside from the VHD. Maybe it wasn't this thread. Interesting none the less.
Just been playing around with Virtual hard drives, unlike daemon tools and alcohol it virtually created a partition and stores it on a HD. Kinda useful but useless for my ISOs some which need to read a CD drive.
I thought someone posted an article about using VHD's to essentially dualboot into another OS, without the virtual layer aside from the VHD. Maybe it wasn't this thread. Interesting none the less.
yea, you can dual boot straight to a VHD, but you need Enterprise or Ultimate to do that.
Oh, and the first time I tried to run a Source game, the screen started to dim for like a split second, and then it locked up. After killing the process in Task Manager, I got a UAC message asking me if I wanted to let HL2.exe run.
I disabled UAC and everything was fine.
Anybody else have problems with UAC and Source?
No, but I haven't launched HL2 specifically. I have played L4D and TF2 plenty, though. Actually, I had UAC disabled in Vista, but haven't found a need to in 7.
I got HL2.exe errors in both Portal and TF2 that went away when I disabled UAC.
It might be specific to my video card, as it looked like what got hung up was the screen dimming effect.
Feral on
every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.
Oh, and the first time I tried to run a Source game, the screen started to dim for like a split second, and then it locked up. After killing the process in Task Manager, I got a UAC message asking me if I wanted to let HL2.exe run.
I disabled UAC and everything was fine.
Anybody else have problems with UAC and Source?
No, but I haven't launched HL2 specifically. I have played L4D and TF2 plenty, though. Actually, I had UAC disabled in Vista, but haven't found a need to in 7.
I got HL2.exe errors in both Portal and TF2 that went away when I disabled UAC.
It might be specific to my video card, as it looked like what got hung up was the screen dimming effect.
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edited June 2009
Ok, well no build can apparently be TOO easy.
Got the DVD drive tonight, hooked it up, closed the case, and everything's peachy.
Started a Windows 7 install. One crash during one of the reboots, but I shrugged it off. After that, the system came up fine and I started installing software. No real issues for a while. Updated my display driver (ATI Raedon 4850). Windows crashes on the restart, freezing at the starting windows screen. Came back fine after that, so I shrug it off.
Another crash while running natural selection, never got into a game. This time, windows freezes again on restart, only this time I cant get back in at all, no matter how many times I restsart.
I finally go into safe mode and remove the display driver, thinking that's the problem. A few of the crashes in windows have had a display driver error before the memory dump.
Windows restarts fine this time. I reinstall the driver from ATI, and then there's another freeze on the restart.
I want to use Windows 7, but it seems ati's drivers just aren't stable at all. Is this a known issue? Any way around it? Thanks for the help.
Got the DVD drive tonight, hooked it up, closed the case, and everything's peachy.
Started a Windows 7 install. One crash during one of the reboots, but I shrugged it off. After that, the system came up fine and I started installing software. No real issues for a while. Updated my display driver (ATI Raedon 4850). Windows crashes on the restart, freezing at the starting windows screen. Came back fine after that, so I shrug it off.
Another crash while running natural selection, never got into a game. This time, windows freezes again on restart, only this time I cant get back in at all, no matter how many times I restsart.
I finally go into safe mode and remove the display driver, thinking that's the problem. A few of the crashes in windows have had a display driver error before the memory dump.
Windows restarts fine this time. I reinstall the driver from ATI, and then there's another freeze on the restart.
I want to use Windows 7, but it seems ati's drivers just aren't stable at all. Is this a known issue? Any way around it? Thanks for the help.
It sounds like ATI's drivers might not be ready for 7 yet. This is not a final product so AMD might just not be ready yet. Have you tried installing an older set of drivers? Perhaps it is just a problem with their latest release.
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I honestly don't think I've even used a screen saver since like, 1997. First thing I do is turn it off, and set my monitor to turn off after 20 min. screensavers might be pretty to look at, but there's no point when my monitor could just be off and not using power.
Sorry, I just use screen save as a cover all term.
My monitor turns it self off.
Then it fucks up my computer.
(I hate the powersaving settings with all my heart)
Got the DVD drive tonight, hooked it up, closed the case, and everything's peachy.
Started a Windows 7 install. One crash during one of the reboots, but I shrugged it off. After that, the system came up fine and I started installing software. No real issues for a while. Updated my display driver (ATI Raedon 4850). Windows crashes on the restart, freezing at the starting windows screen. Came back fine after that, so I shrug it off.
Another crash while running natural selection, never got into a game. This time, windows freezes again on restart, only this time I cant get back in at all, no matter how many times I restsart.
I finally go into safe mode and remove the display driver, thinking that's the problem. A few of the crashes in windows have had a display driver error before the memory dump.
Windows restarts fine this time. I reinstall the driver from ATI, and then there's another freeze on the restart.
I want to use Windows 7, but it seems ati's drivers just aren't stable at all. Is this a known issue? Any way around it? Thanks for the help.
It sounds like ATI's drivers might not be ready for 7 yet. This is not a final product so AMD might just not be ready yet. Have you tried installing an older set of drivers? Perhaps it is just a problem with their latest release.
Have you tried just not loading any drivers at all? Win7 has a pretty nice default driver set. Update will match you with pretty good newer drivers as well.
I've had good luck with 4850s in windows 7, both with the internal driver and with ATIs, provided the install is not an upgrade and the install is not onto a hard drive that already contains a windows installation. Not sure why the latter would make a difference but for me it did on several installs.
When I installed onto a hard drive that already had windows on it, Win7 would seem to install fine, but after getting to the desktop I'd click on the start button and it'd be frozen for 10-15 seconds. I'd go into my computer and it would take even longer. As soon as I started to try and do anythining terribly intensive the machine would freeze up.
Was your install by chance into a hard drive that already had a windows installation, Six? Or an upgrade? Beg pardon if you've stated this elsewhere in the thread.
Got the DVD drive tonight, hooked it up, closed the case, and everything's peachy.
Started a Windows 7 install. One crash during one of the reboots, but I shrugged it off. After that, the system came up fine and I started installing software. No real issues for a while. Updated my display driver (ATI Raedon 4850). Windows crashes on the restart, freezing at the starting windows screen. Came back fine after that, so I shrug it off.
Another crash while running natural selection, never got into a game. This time, windows freezes again on restart, only this time I cant get back in at all, no matter how many times I restsart.
I finally go into safe mode and remove the display driver, thinking that's the problem. A few of the crashes in windows have had a display driver error before the memory dump.
Windows restarts fine this time. I reinstall the driver from ATI, and then there's another freeze on the restart.
I want to use Windows 7, but it seems ati's drivers just aren't stable at all. Is this a known issue? Any way around it? Thanks for the help.
It sounds like ATI's drivers might not be ready for 7 yet. This is not a final product so AMD might just not be ready yet. Have you tried installing an older set of drivers? Perhaps it is just a problem with their latest release.
Have you tried just not loading any drivers at all? Win7 has a pretty nice default driver set. Update will match you with pretty good newer drivers as well.
I'm using ATI's beta drivers for Windows 7, using a 3870. Can't say i've had a problem with it, might be different for the 4000 series though.
Are we allowed to talk about "leaked" builds here? (Arrrr) because 7137 and 7201 have leaked recently. 7201 is supposedly the RC2 (Release Candidate 2) (2nd shot at going to release; Go Windows 7, you can do it! /MS is silly). I'm in 7137 which is very samey (that's a word?) to 7100 (RC 1) except for some snazzy new themes packed in. Speaking of 7100, every one of you should at least go to that (Windows Media Center got a +20 performance buff).
Are we allowed to talk about "leaked" builds here? (Arrrr) because 7137 and 7201 have leaked recently. 7201 is supposedly the RC2 (Release Candidate 2) (2nd shot at going to release; Go Windows 7, you can do it! /MS is silly). I'm in 7137 which is very samey (that's a word?) to 7100 (RC 1) except for some snazzy new themes packed in. Speaking of 7100, every one of you should at least go to that (Windows Media Center got a +20 performance buff).
Was your install by chance into a hard drive that already had a windows installation, Six? Or an upgrade? Beg pardon if you've stated this elsewhere in the thread.
Nope, this was on a completely clean, new drive.
The behavior suggests some kind of overheating. It didn't happen early in the build process, but once the computer had been on for a while, it froze so soon I couldnt even get to windows. Turn it off for a while, it worked briefly before starting the freezing again.
No artifacts, but sometimes the screen would go blank over and over and the whole machine seemed to slowly grind to a halt. I tried checking the catalyst control panel to see the gpu temp, but I couldn't even get in before it would freeze.
I decided I didn't want to fight it, and started an XP install last night which I finished this morning. XP seems to be running fine for now, but I won't really know until I use it for more than an hour and see if the same behavior manifests itself.
I really wanted to give w7 a shot, but I also want to be able to use my new machine
I was reading about some pretty amazing performance reviews with Win7 on a boot solid-state drive. I figure when the price is right on solid-state drives, that'll be my next upgrade.
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spookymuffin( ° ʖ ° )Puyallup WA Registered Userregular
edited June 2009
I can't wait for solid state drives to cost less than a testicle.
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So I click on My Computer and all it does is fill up that Explorer address bar with some sort of shiny status - it is slowly filling up but it never finishes and I can't navigate to any files.
What the hell is it doing?
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So I click on My Computer and all it does is fill up that Explorer address bar with some sort of shiny status - it is slowly filling up but it never finishes and I can't navigate to any files.
What the hell is it doing?
I get that a lot when I'm in the Network or if my optical drive's screwed up. It usually stops after a reboot, but that's just, ahem, "treating the symptom".
Sorry, that was just on my list of things to say once and never say again.
So I click on My Computer and all it does is fill up that Explorer address bar with some sort of shiny status - it is slowly filling up but it never finishes and I can't navigate to any files.
What the hell is it doing?
I get that a lot when I'm in the Network or if my optical drive's screwed up. It usually stops after a reboot, but that's just, ahem, "treating the symptom".
Sorry, that was just on my list of things to say once and never say again.
Yeah, I rebooted and it was fine. But I am with you on feeling unhappy with this solution. I just got the HD so I was installing a lot of non-mission critical (on my list of things to say once and never again) programs today. The problem showed itself when I was moving Plants v. Zombies from my old HD to the new one. It may have been the rotation of plugging 3 hard drives into a USB enclosure I have. It gave me some issues when trying to pull one and put in another.
I really wanted to give w7 a shot, but I also want to be able to use my new machine
I'm having this same dilemma at the moment. I just rebuilt my main computer this weekend after not being able to use it for the past two weeks or so due to some hardware fuckups that ended in me just upgrading almost everything. I figured I'd try Win7 64-bit instead of digging out my OEM XP discs and trying to get Microsoft to let me reuse the key on essentially a new machine. New build booted fine, Win7 installed just fine, all good. But now I'm having trouble getting this little Netgear USB wireless adapter to work and some Googling indicates I'm not the only one.
The part that pisses me off is I plugged my mother's Netgear USB wireless adapter into my computer earlier today, installed its software, and it worked fine. Then I got one that was a slightly newer model and tried to install that software, and Windows can't find the device. Even though I see the little blue light on it lighting up. I finally said fuck it and tried to use the older USB adapter again, and now that one won't work either. So even though I had internet this afternoon, I don't now, and I can only assume it's some driver failure going on. Either because it's Win7 or because it's 64-bit period. I want Win7 to work but really I'm just sick of not having my computer and I want it to feel like "mine" again raither than this foreign thing I don't trust to work right. So I might be looking for my OEM XP discs after all (and hoping I'll actually be allowed to continue using that key).
I really wanted to give w7 a shot, but I also want to be able to use my new machine
I'm having this same dilemma at the moment. I just rebuilt my main computer this weekend after not being able to use it for the past two weeks or so due to some hardware fuckups that ended in me just upgrading almost everything. I figured I'd try Win7 64-bit instead of digging out my OEM XP discs and trying to get Microsoft to let me reuse the key on essentially a new machine. New build booted fine, Win7 installed just fine, all good. But now I'm having trouble getting this little Netgear USB wireless adapter to work and some Googling indicates I'm not the only one.
The part that pisses me off is I plugged my mother's Netgear USB wireless adapter into my computer earlier today, installed its software, and it worked fine. Then I got one that was a slightly newer model and tried to install that software, and Windows can't find the device. Even though I see the little blue light on it lighting up. I finally said fuck it and tried to use the older USB adapter again, and now that one won't work either. So even though I had internet this afternoon, I don't now, and I can only assume it's some driver failure going on. Either because it's Win7 or because it's 64-bit period. I want Win7 to work but really I'm just sick of not having my computer and I want it to feel like "mine" again raither than this foreign thing I don't trust to work right. So I might be looking for my OEM XP discs after all (and hoping I'll actually be allowed to continue using that key).
Well the dangers of using any software before release is that not all drivers will be supported. XP and Vista had the same problems, over time drivers get updated.
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I disabled UAC and everything was fine.
Anybody else have problems with UAC and Source?
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
Personally, I don't want my monitor turning off every 5 minutes (mainly because my monitor defaults to the inactive VGA connection when it wakes), and if I step away from the computer for longer than that, I don't want the brightness interfering with whatever else I may be doing, like watching TV or playing a console game.
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No, but I haven't launched HL2 specifically. I have played L4D and TF2 plenty, though. Actually, I had UAC disabled in Vista, but haven't found a need to in 7.
NintendoID: Nailbunny 3DS: 3909-8796-4685
Out of spite, I shut it off right away on both my installs.
PSN/XBL: Zampanov -- Steam: Zampanov
I thought someone posted an article about using VHD's to essentially dualboot into another OS, without the virtual layer aside from the VHD. Maybe it wasn't this thread. Interesting none the less.
NintendoID: Nailbunny 3DS: 3909-8796-4685
yea, you can dual boot straight to a VHD, but you need Enterprise or Ultimate to do that.
I got HL2.exe errors in both Portal and TF2 that went away when I disabled UAC.
It might be specific to my video card, as it looked like what got hung up was the screen dimming effect.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
Is your account an admin account?
NintendoID: Nailbunny 3DS: 3909-8796-4685
Got the DVD drive tonight, hooked it up, closed the case, and everything's peachy.
Started a Windows 7 install. One crash during one of the reboots, but I shrugged it off. After that, the system came up fine and I started installing software. No real issues for a while. Updated my display driver (ATI Raedon 4850). Windows crashes on the restart, freezing at the starting windows screen. Came back fine after that, so I shrug it off.
Another crash while running natural selection, never got into a game. This time, windows freezes again on restart, only this time I cant get back in at all, no matter how many times I restsart.
I finally go into safe mode and remove the display driver, thinking that's the problem. A few of the crashes in windows have had a display driver error before the memory dump.
Windows restarts fine this time. I reinstall the driver from ATI, and then there's another freeze on the restart.
I want to use Windows 7, but it seems ati's drivers just aren't stable at all. Is this a known issue? Any way around it? Thanks for the help.
It sounds like ATI's drivers might not be ready for 7 yet. This is not a final product so AMD might just not be ready yet. Have you tried installing an older set of drivers? Perhaps it is just a problem with their latest release.
"Read twice, post once. It's almost like 'measure twice, cut once' only with reading." - MetaverseNomad
Sorry, I just use screen save as a cover all term.
My monitor turns it self off.
Then it fucks up my computer.
(I hate the powersaving settings with all my heart)
Satans..... hints.....
Have you tried just not loading any drivers at all? Win7 has a pretty nice default driver set. Update will match you with pretty good newer drivers as well.
When I installed onto a hard drive that already had windows on it, Win7 would seem to install fine, but after getting to the desktop I'd click on the start button and it'd be frozen for 10-15 seconds. I'd go into my computer and it would take even longer. As soon as I started to try and do anythining terribly intensive the machine would freeze up.
Was your install by chance into a hard drive that already had a windows installation, Six? Or an upgrade? Beg pardon if you've stated this elsewhere in the thread.
I'm using ATI's beta drivers for Windows 7, using a 3870. Can't say i've had a problem with it, might be different for the 4000 series though.
Talk away, anything new in them?
Nope, this was on a completely clean, new drive.
The behavior suggests some kind of overheating. It didn't happen early in the build process, but once the computer had been on for a while, it froze so soon I couldnt even get to windows. Turn it off for a while, it worked briefly before starting the freezing again.
No artifacts, but sometimes the screen would go blank over and over and the whole machine seemed to slowly grind to a halt. I tried checking the catalyst control panel to see the gpu temp, but I couldn't even get in before it would freeze.
I decided I didn't want to fight it, and started an XP install last night which I finished this morning. XP seems to be running fine for now, but I won't really know until I use it for more than an hour and see if the same behavior manifests itself.
I really wanted to give w7 a shot, but I also want to be able to use my new machine
Not unless Microsoft has been lying about 7100 being the only RC/last public build.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSWL6A6ybYs
http://nzone.com/object/nzone_geoforms_home.html
There ya go!
Yeh indeed, im starting to feel the burn of too many hard drives with mechanical failures.
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DropBox invite link - get 500MB extra free.
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Edit, also i like the snipper, which i used to make that pic
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DropBox invite link - get 500MB extra free.
What the hell is it doing?
Holy shit!
That is a darned funky snipping tool right there.
Sorry, that was just on my list of things to say once and never say again.
Yeah, I rebooted and it was fine. But I am with you on feeling unhappy with this solution. I just got the HD so I was installing a lot of non-mission critical (on my list of things to say once and never again) programs today. The problem showed itself when I was moving Plants v. Zombies from my old HD to the new one. It may have been the rotation of plugging 3 hard drives into a USB enclosure I have. It gave me some issues when trying to pull one and put in another.
No real information but every little piece helps.
I'm having this same dilemma at the moment. I just rebuilt my main computer this weekend after not being able to use it for the past two weeks or so due to some hardware fuckups that ended in me just upgrading almost everything. I figured I'd try Win7 64-bit instead of digging out my OEM XP discs and trying to get Microsoft to let me reuse the key on essentially a new machine. New build booted fine, Win7 installed just fine, all good. But now I'm having trouble getting this little Netgear USB wireless adapter to work and some Googling indicates I'm not the only one.
The part that pisses me off is I plugged my mother's Netgear USB wireless adapter into my computer earlier today, installed its software, and it worked fine. Then I got one that was a slightly newer model and tried to install that software, and Windows can't find the device. Even though I see the little blue light on it lighting up. I finally said fuck it and tried to use the older USB adapter again, and now that one won't work either. So even though I had internet this afternoon, I don't now, and I can only assume it's some driver failure going on. Either because it's Win7 or because it's 64-bit period. I want Win7 to work but really I'm just sick of not having my computer and I want it to feel like "mine" again raither than this foreign thing I don't trust to work right. So I might be looking for my OEM XP discs after all (and hoping I'll actually be allowed to continue using that key).
Well the dangers of using any software before release is that not all drivers will be supported. XP and Vista had the same problems, over time drivers get updated.