Computer Questions Not Worth Their Own Thread II

I did more googling and it turns out that it's only potentially possible through your sound driver's GUI.. which I can't seem to locate. But I did some pulling on cables and I've been able to flip the speakers! I swear I tried this before and it didn't work
 
a lot of sound drivers don't even have guis iirc
 
question

how does one check to see if a certain optical disk is multisession
 
I have really broken my work computer, and I have a lot to do this weekend and any help would be greatly appreciated. I cannot get work help until monday.

I updated my ATI graphics drivers according to here, then rebooted the computer and now it will not boot up. It stops at some point around these messages (it is not consistent):

Starting GNOME Display Manager... (usually this one)
Starting bluetooth service.
Started GNOME Display Manager.
Started Network Manager Wait Online.

Thanks for any help.

This is fedora 18. I have an ATI Radion I think.
 
Does anyone know if nVidia ever released user's guides for their "high definition audio" control panel? (The one with the sleek black background)?
 
Samson said:
I have really broken my work computer, and I have a lot to do this weekend and any help would be greatly appreciated. I cannot get work help until monday.

I updated my ATI graphics drivers according to here, then rebooted the computer and now it will not boot up. It stops at some point around these messages (it is not consistent):

Starting GNOME Display Manager... (usually this one)
Starting bluetooth service.
Started GNOME Display Manager.
Started Network Manager Wait Online.

Thanks for any help.

This is fedora 18. I have an ATI Radion I think.
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I don't know anything about Fedora, but i'd try to switch to a terminal (e.g atl+ctrl+f2) and uninstall the driver. If that doesn't get your Desktop Environment back up, you might also have to edit the /etc/X11/xorg.conf and change the driver there to vesa.
 
Till said:
I don't know anything about Fedora, but i'd try to switch to a terminal (e.g atl+ctrl+f2) and uninstall the driver. If that doesn't get your Desktop Environment back up, you might also have to edit the /etc/X11/xorg.conf and change the driver there to vesa.
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Thank you very much. yum remove xorg-x11-drv-catalyst xorg-x11-drv-catalyst-libs.i686 did the job.
 
One of my older games crashes because it doesn't know how to deal with my dual-core processor. I know how to change the affinity of the process but is there a way to start the game with that?
 
A few weeks after I upgraded my desktop to Windows 8 from Windows Vista, the system started to hang after a few minutes of being on and then completely locks up. Even CRTL+ALT+DELETE won't work, the system has to be physically turned off.

Things had been working flawlessly for maybe about a month after the upgrade before this started to happen.

What would cause this behaviour, other than an inadequate power supply? I suspect the PSU needs to be replaced but I'm not 100% sure and don't want to spring for a new one without being more certain of the problem.
 
It does seem like a hardware problem but not necessarily the PSU. Are you doing anything specific when this happens?

I use to had the same thing when I watched some movies with windows media player, turned out to be the graphics card.
 
Well the graphics card is only a few months old, so I hadn't been suspecting that.

The problem doesn't seem related to any specific activity. It works fine for about 10 minutes and then it hangs, regardless of what it's doing.
 
shadowplay said:
Well the graphics card is only a few months old, so I hadn't been suspecting that.

The problem doesn't seem to happen during any specific activity. It works fine for about 10 minutes and then it hangs, regardless of what it's doing.
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It sounds to me like overheating. 10 minutes is pretty quick for this, but you could try cleaning out the various places that get clogged up and seeing what happens.
 
Tried that - still getting the same behaviour, unfortunately.

Other than power supply issues I can't think of what else this could be. Is there any way I can definitely confirm that it's the power supply that is the problem?
 
Have you installed new drivers? Programs? An update could have screwed something up. Does 8 have system restore? You could try going back to a time when it worked and see if that fixes it....
 
I haven't installed any new drivers, no, unless something went and updated itself.

The problem here with trying things like rolling back drivers or using system restore is that the machine won't stay on long enough for me to be able to do anything. Any suggestions on how to work around that?
 
You could try putting Linux on a USB stick and booting from that (or a CD). Use a friend's PC to put linux on the USB. If you can run for ~1hr with Linux on the USB then at least you know it's not your power supply. You can also do things like memtest to test the RAM, and other tests that will test the hard drive. And of course, you can get any important files off the hard drive, in case it's a hard drive failure...

To me it sounds like a HDD failure.
 
In Vista Home Premium, where is the registry setting to change the default drag and drop behavior?
 
shadowplay said:
I haven't installed any new drivers, no, unless something went and updated itself.

The problem here with trying things like rolling back drivers or using system restore is that the machine won't stay on long enough for me to be able to do anything. Any suggestions on how to work around that?
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Dunno.... In Windows 7, I can boot to a recovery partition. Is there some kind of safe mode that loads the minimum drivers to run windows for repair purposes in 8? I know 7 & XP support that.

If it is a HDD failure, you should also be able to use the Windows install discs to get into a recovery mode and run chkdsk on it.
 
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