Just wipe your hard drive.
Isn't all your stuff backed up? You should be prepared for catastrophic hard drive failure at any time.
Computer Questions Not Worth Their Own Thread II
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Just wipe your hard drive.
Isn't all your stuff backed up? You should be prepared for catastrophic hard drive failure at any time.
Synobun
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I have the same problem as Disgustipated, except it's not an error message. It either says they failed to install or, while rebooting, it says it failed to configure and reverted the changes. Disabling Windows Update fixed the problem, but alas, I sort of don't like missing out on updates.
It's been like this ever since I got my laptop (new). Any ideas?
It's been like this ever since I got my laptop (new). Any ideas?
Which is better for gaming purpose, 64-bit XP or Windows 7?
I understand some games don't play at all on W/, is it due to the 64-bittiness (that is do they run on 64-bit XP)?
I know there's a possibility to run games in a XP-consol on Win7, but thought more about the performance issue here.
I understand some games don't play at all on W/, is it due to the 64-bittiness (that is do they run on 64-bit XP)?
I know there's a possibility to run games in a XP-consol on Win7, but thought more about the performance issue here.
Ok. Thanks! 
Disgustipated
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Windows 7 64 bit has been good for my games. I can get older games like Baldur's Gate 1 and 2 to run on it no problem, and Planescape: Torment. X-com runs on it too (although that's the steam version).
back up? What's that?
Seriously, what would be the best way to back up my hard drive? I did back up a lot of stuff on a 16 gig USB, but it's not big enough.
My biggest issue is the time it takes to do that, and I was lazy and downloaded many games electronically instead of getting my lazy ass to store to buy a hard copy. My internet is slow, and it takes a full day to download a game sometimes. Even installing games from my disks takes quite a while. Especially with patches, mods, and other stuff. It's a nightmare. I'll just keep running my computer until it fails.
back up? What's that?
Seriously, what would be the best way to back up my hard drive? I did back up a lot of stuff on a 16 gig USB, but it's not big enough. My biggest issue is the time it takes to do that, and I was lazy and downloaded many games electronically instead of getting my lazy ass to store to buy a hard copy. My internet is slow, and it takes a full day to download a game sometimes. Even installing games from my disks takes quite a while. Especially with patches, mods, and other stuff. It's a nightmare. I'll just keep running my computer until it fails.
back up? What's that?
My recommendation is to sync all your documents to skydrive/dropbox and then back everything up to external drives.
aimeeandbeatles
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I heard of the 3-2-1 backup method which is pretty neat --
3 Seperate Backups
2 Different Mediums
1 Off-Site
3 Seperate Backups
2 Different Mediums
1 Off-Site
LucyDuke
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Not expensive at all if you prioritize Really Important Stuff, and still not very expensive for most people if you exclude replaceable stuff like 500gb of star wars cartoons.
EDP
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Hopefully a quick question, not worth of it's own thread:
I want to connect my PC to TV to play Civ V (yay!) and watch movies in 1080p quality with audio.
I have:
Asus EAH5770 CuCore video card, has 1 HDMI port (in use by PC monitor), 1 DVI (and 1 VGA, not suitable for 1080p).
Asus M4A89GTD PRO motherboard with integrated graphics card with 1 HDMI port (good enough for 1080p playback, but probably not for Civ V at max settings).
Asus Xonar Essence STX audio card, for audio if it won't go with video through one cable.
(No, I'm not an Asus fan, but these hardware pieces were just what I was looking for at the time!)
Samsung 32" TV with all sorts of inputs (HDMI, VGA, component, scart, whatever) (model: Samsung LE32A756R1F).
The distance between PC and TV is too big to "just buy a cable and see if it works" (too expensive to just try it), besides the fact that I don't know what options I have to get that TV producing the image and sound that I want!
Any advice? Anybody having a similar set up? Thanks in advance!
I want to connect my PC to TV to play Civ V (yay!) and watch movies in 1080p quality with audio.
I have:
Asus EAH5770 CuCore video card, has 1 HDMI port (in use by PC monitor), 1 DVI (and 1 VGA, not suitable for 1080p).
Asus M4A89GTD PRO motherboard with integrated graphics card with 1 HDMI port (good enough for 1080p playback, but probably not for Civ V at max settings).
Asus Xonar Essence STX audio card, for audio if it won't go with video through one cable.
(No, I'm not an Asus fan, but these hardware pieces were just what I was looking for at the time!)
Samsung 32" TV with all sorts of inputs (HDMI, VGA, component, scart, whatever) (model: Samsung LE32A756R1F).
The distance between PC and TV is too big to "just buy a cable and see if it works" (too expensive to just try it), besides the fact that I don't know what options I have to get that TV producing the image and sound that I want!
Any advice? Anybody having a similar set up? Thanks in advance!
Move the PC (or the TV) so you can test with a short cable?
Most TVs with modern input modes are just plug and play (At least, attaching my TV as a monitor has been easy with various different PCs). Do you want to use your regular monitor and the TV at the same time? Otherwise moving the things close together, unplugging your monitor and seeing if that cable works on the TV seems like the best thing to do.
Most TVs with modern input modes are just plug and play (At least, attaching my TV as a monitor has been easy with various different PCs). Do you want to use your regular monitor and the TV at the same time? Otherwise moving the things close together, unplugging your monitor and seeing if that cable works on the TV seems like the best thing to do.
EDP
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I have already found a possible solution.
But first, @dutchfire: I know the TV works through a HDMI cable from a laptop. I'm sure that the TV will work the same easy plug and play way on the PC.
The solution (so simple, like most practical solutions): the PC monitor goes on the DVI port, the TV on the HDMI port.
But first, @dutchfire: I know the TV works through a HDMI cable from a laptop. I'm sure that the TV will work the same easy plug and play way on the PC.
The solution (so simple, like most practical solutions): the PC monitor goes on the DVI port, the TV on the HDMI port.
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If you intend to use the TV's speakers, you're probably going to need to look up the documentation that comes with your video card explaining how to enable it to output audio (not all video cards can do this). It's pretty simple but I don't think it's enabled by default and might require connecting your sound card to your video card.
My preferred method is to connect the desktop's sound card to the A/V receiver (assuming there is one) via a digital audio cable. The display is then connected seperately to the TV via a DVI-to-HDMI adaptor cable. This way, you can turn off the TV and still listen to music, for example.
My preferred method is to connect the desktop's sound card to the A/V receiver (assuming there is one) via a digital audio cable. The display is then connected seperately to the TV via a DVI-to-HDMI adaptor cable. This way, you can turn off the TV and still listen to music, for example.
EDP
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The downside of using an AV receiver is, given that my TV has a significant delay between the reception of the signal and the emission of the image (and sound), your AV receiver needs an option to delay the output of sound.
I noticed this delay, when connecting the TV to the Wii, when I got it to replace an older one. The game Rhythm Heaven Fever became unplayable, because the Wii registered all the keystrokes as 'too late', because the image and sound from the TV had a delay, that the old tv did not have...
I have a simple and old Stereo CD player/Radio receiver next to my TV, so I can always use that set to play some tunes from my PC (with an extra cable, like you are saying), or even the TV sound if I prefer (I don't). I usually listen through headphones, though, or to radio, when turning on music in the room.
If I had an AV receiver, I could use my TV's digital out and hope it contains the same delay. It would save me from buying a long digital audio cable (I need 7.5 m).
I noticed this delay, when connecting the TV to the Wii, when I got it to replace an older one. The game Rhythm Heaven Fever became unplayable, because the Wii registered all the keystrokes as 'too late', because the image and sound from the TV had a delay, that the old tv did not have...
I have a simple and old Stereo CD player/Radio receiver next to my TV, so I can always use that set to play some tunes from my PC (with an extra cable, like you are saying), or even the TV sound if I prefer (I don't). I usually listen through headphones, though, or to radio, when turning on music in the room.
If I had an AV receiver, I could use my TV's digital out and hope it contains the same delay. It would save me from buying a long digital audio cable (I need 7.5 m).
aimeeandbeatles
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Not particularly. Put one copie of your files on your external drive, another copie on some DVD-Rs, and another copie on something like Dropbox. Ta-da. Even I can afford it.
innonimatu
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60-bit XP is exactly the same as 32-bit XP except for the support for much, much more memory. In practice 32-bit games will only use up to 4GB, instead of the 2GB they're limited to in 32-bit windows, but that's enough to run Civ4 with the big mods, for example.
Zelig must have some trauma about XP 64-bits, maybe he tried the ithanium version by mistake.
No, it isn't the same, it's actually a rebranded version of Windows Server 2003.
It has basically all the compatibility problems that Vista had at launch, except none of them were ever fixed, and it has none of the improvements (other than support for >4GB memory, obviously) that Vista featured over XP.
