Windows Vista Tech Support

[Wile E]

(& just for the record elfen lied rules..)

Yes, yes it does. lol


But back on topic. Hard drive is my hunch as well, but I figured it wouldn't hurt to make sure DX is up to date.

 

[ADV4NCED]

lol guys look @ my join date to the forums, I'm no n00b to the forums or computers

When on XP I've tried plain DX9 as well as DX9.0c. XP isn't my problem though - formatted last night back to XP (and running like a beauty ), couldnt handle those bloody bsod's every 15 mins

The last bsod I saw was Memory_management (vista). What I tried was uninstalling my nvidia drivers completely and try to play a game without any video drivers installed. Games looked horrible and never solved the problem, after 2 mins during BMW M3 Challenge, BSOD! So in my mind its not a problem due to Nvidia's drivers - also backing this up is the fact that some ATI users also have these issues.

Anyway, I also am questioning this HDD, however every diagnostic test I do, it comes up clean I got another diagnostic test from work today, will run over night testing my hdd to see if it finds any bad sectors. Works really well @ work (I'm a technician) so if my seagate is dieing on me, this should pick it up.

 

[JousteR]

Glad this had been bumped saved me face and stopped me making new thread...
Anyway my problem is that for the last few weeks windows update doesnt let me update and the damn control panel refuses to open..?


Any ideas chaps or is anyone else suffering from this..?
Please stop me from uninstalling Vista for a 4th time..

 

[Firedomain]

lol guys look @ my join date to the forums, I'm no n00b to the forums or computers

When on XP I've tried plain DX9 as well as DX9.0c. XP isn't my problem though - formatted last night back to XP (and running like a beauty ), couldnt handle those bloody bsod's every 15 mins

The last bsod I saw was Memory_management (vista). What I tried was uninstalling my nvidia drivers completely and try to play a game without any video drivers installed. Games looked horrible and never solved the problem, after 2 mins during BMW M3 Challenge, BSOD! So in my mind its not a problem due to Nvidia's drivers - also backing this up is the fact that some ATI users also have these issues.

Anyway, I also am questioning this HDD, however every diagnostic test I do, it comes up clean I got another diagnostic test from work today, will run over night testing my hdd to see if it finds any bad sectors. Works really well @ work (I'm a technician) so if my seagate is dieing on me, this should pick it up.

I'm not accusing anyone here, but i'm gonna just guess this aint a "legit" copy of vista?
if it aint i'd deffinately either say its a bad copy (because of the "Image" style vista was created with, a bad file may b copied isactly as it is on the disc instead of detecting a corrupt file or anything.) or i'd say for some reason you have serious compatibility issues with ur mobo or something.

i personaly use vista at home & have not had a problem with it crashing (after all the updates.... dont get me started on how unstable it is befor the updates!)

my "friend" has a non-legit version & he has problems all the time from a bad image of vista.

is there another copy you can try 2 install? (on another partition or something, so u dont have 2 wipe everything again.)

if this is a legit copy, then my bad.... but still a possibility its a bad disc???

 

[ADV4NCED]

Unfortunetly it has nothing to do with the disc. I have a legit copy FYI, however I even used a friends cd to install and it doesn't make any difference =/

Thought I should explain a little more too:

About 2 months after I got this pc (which was when I still had an E6600, 2gb Team Elite and an Antec TP-II 480W psu), I installed Vista after running on a perfectly stable and overclocked system on XP. About after a week on vista, the bsod's started with the nvlddmkm.sys error. Back then it was THE ONLY BSOD ERROR I got, however I got it whenever I played any of my games. About 3 days of that sh1t and my GTS 320mb started artifacting everywhere. It was like the gpu suddenly was damaged by all the bsod's in Vista and even formatting back to XP didn't help. Putting the card in another pc, it artifacted there too :S

Sent the card in for RMA, they covered it and bam got the card back in working condition. Now I been running XP stable again but decided I need DX10 as my DX9 performance was excellent.

So again I went to Vista, this time instead of the nvlddmkm.sys bsod appearing, it was a MULTITUDE of other bsods. Still havent seen the nvlddmkm.sys bsod since the RMA..

Anyway, the bsod's have followed me back to XP however after another 2 formats today....the bsods seem to have gone!

..Will keep you all updated as who knows how permenent this stability is gonne be

 

[Firedomain]

good luck & lets hope u dont have 2 put up another post with the damn bsod's again!!

good luck again.

 

[spud107]

no internet on vista

thought id post here instead of making new post,
been trying to get vista to work with the wireless network,
can connect to the wireless router but cant get internet from the modem attached,
can log into the router and modem setup screens, so they are both accesible,
maybe iv just missed an option somewhere,
works fine with xp on same pc,

 

[Firedomain]

thought id post here instead of making new post,
been trying to get vista to work with the wireless network,
can connect to the wireless router but cant get internet from the modem attached,
can log into the router and modem setup screens, so they are both accesible,
maybe iv just missed an option somewhere,
works fine with xp on same pc,

try going into: "start" "network" "network & sharing center" "customize" & try the location type "private"
also what does your network & sharing center say about ur computer connection (the top picture of the network map).

 

[spud107]

done the private setting,
map shows as
my computer -> linksys -> internet but not connecting,
there should be an asdl modem after the router
il try the pppoe? option for connecting later when i can get the user/pass
but its not needed from this end of the connection on xp,
and its already set in the modem
just connects to the router an internets connected

 

[Firedomain]

sorry, im not to sure... all i can think of appart from windows firewall blocking it is..... umm......
manually setting up ur IP & default gateway & if that works try putting it back to auto config (i know that sounds pointless... but i have had probs where doing that suddenly makes the comp like the connection!)

i hope that helps. other than that i cant think of anything off the top of my head that would help..... hence y im planning on doing a tafe course in network administration next year! fix up my PC weak spot!

 

[spud107]

thanks, il give it a try tomorrow sometime, gotta sleep . . .

 

[delisimo]

Vista Activation Issue

Windows Vista Home Premium - Pre-installed

Hello,

I have a really strange Activation issue going on with my Vista:

When I go to my Activation screen it reads Active and everything looks fine, upon launching certain programs / applications / games the Activation status changes to Inactive.

When I quit the programs / applications / games the Activation goes back to Active status.

When I leave the programs /applications /games open and hit the Activate Windows button, it actually gives me an error code - 0x8007005, Description Access Denied.


Now, before I get into this I just want to say that I have called in and Activated my Windows Vista by phone successfully. Of course to get any kind of feedback from Microsoft you have to pay quite a bit of money, so I'm trying to get as much feedback on this issue prior to spending the money on what appears to be an actual Microsoft error.


I've done my homework on this and from what I have learned I am not alone with this.

This is the first link that I was given from the Windows Vista Discussion Group forums on this issue. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/931573

I have downloaded that update manually from that site and attempted to install it. Upon running the install it basically tells me, "this software is not compatible with your system" and does not install.

After reading that site provided you can see that for whatever reason this new BIOS Validation Check may be the cause of this error, but I can't even install the hotfix.

Is this just a display error or is my copy of windows actually inactive even though I've called in and activated it?

If anyone has any ideas as to what I can do to get rid of this problem I would really appreciate the help.

Also, I want to know how many times you can actually activate your copy of windows be it via e-mail, phone, internet? Is there a limit if you're just reformating or is your copy yours to use on your computer for as long as you have the same hardware etc...?

Thank you,
delisimo

 

[Firedomain]

hey, thats pretty screwed up, but i have heard a few times of stupid activation errors & stuff.
my only suggestion is to try Vista Loader v2.2.0
you wouldn't be using your actual key but since you do own a legit copy & microsoft is fukcin up, i don't see a problem with using it.
it will create a "virtual" bios thing (that says its from an OEM) & will trick your comp into thinking that its an OEM & is legit.... although it already is & microsoft cant keep there software very bug-free.

as for the other stuff, sorry cant really tell u anything else.

(i've heard that this sometimes cracks the shits with some of the OEM's, but apparently the most reliable was using an ASUS key.)

 

[delisimo]

Thanks for the feedback, I will look into that.

I do have some updated news upon speaking with Microsoft Support over the phone and have obatained a case ticket as they are looking into the issue.

The support rep basically ended up asking everyone in his power regarding this issue and they had no idea what was happening. He did answer one question though, and that was regarding the install of that patch. Apparently the patch was a Windows Update hotfix and the reason I was receiving that error message upon trying to install was because I had already received and installed the update with my Automatic Upates turned on.

So, at this point I talked with him about some certain programs that were running during the times that I noticed the Activation status going bonkers and the strangest one being Sims 2... He is actually asking an employee of his to install Sims 2 and see if he gets the same results and plans on calling me back as soon as they find out anything. In the mean time he told me that I am legit and do not need to worry about my copy and activation, which is good. Although I do not reveive the nasty error that I have 3 days to activate my copy yet and it appears to be a false error, I would hate to have to deal with a 3 day warning to activate my copy if that were to happen and then go through the process of calling activation support everytime I run a program.

Thanks again for the help. I will update the status of this in the case that someone else has a similar problem.

 

[mysticjon]

hey my vista doesnt seem to open programs such as mozilla, utorrent, zune, and nero. they work but once i turn of my computer and then turn it back on later, the programs just dont open or work, i double click like crazy and nothing happens, also utorrent does the same thing under Xp too, and the only thing that keeps the programs open and usable is if i either keep the program running or idle and leave my computer on 24/7. when i do turn off my computer, (take moziila firefox for an example) i install it so i can open the program.....has anybody else have/had this issue before?

 

[Firedomain]

mysticjon:
i haven't personally heard bout this... my 1st q. is do u have a virus scanner???
are you using 32 or 64-bit Vista & what version?
(start -> Right click "computer" -> "properties")

delisimo:
just so you know, microsoft is planning on trying to block the OEM hack in SP1.
Vistaloader uses a better method of OEM cracking than normal windows OEM hacks.
but microsoft will still "probably" block it.

for now im having my own vista problems!

 

[mysticjon]

mysticjon:
i haven't personally heard bout this... my 1st q. is do u have a virus scanner???
are you using 32 or 64-bit Vista & what version?
(start -> Right click "computer" -> "properties")

delisimo:
just so you know, microsoft is planning on trying to block the OEM hack in SP1.
Vistaloader uses a better method of OEM cracking than normal windows OEM hacks.
but microsoft will still "probably" block it.

for now im having my own vista problems!

hey thank you for replying
windows vista ultimate 32 bit version 6.0.6000
um im not using a virus scanner. (would you recommend one, like which brand)
its just a weird thing thats happening, sometimes i am able to reboot fine and open the progrmas but mostly it doesnt open, also its doing it with winamp, since zine is a totaly system hog, i switched back to winamp....ive had more problems with virus scanner programs in the past, due to how furstrating they are and how annoying they are

 

[Wile E]

hey thank you for replying
windows vista ultimate 32 bit version 6.0.6000
um im not using a virus scanner. (would you recommend one, like which brand)
its just a weird thing thats happening, sometimes i am able to reboot fine and open the progrmas but mostly it doesnt open, also its doing it with winamp, since zine is a totaly system hog, i switched back to winamp....ive had more problems with virus scanner programs in the past, due to how furstrating they are and how annoying they are

Can't go wrong with Kaspersky or NOD32 for AV programs.

 

[Firedomain]

Kaspersky is my 100% only virus scanner i'd recommend (have heard just as good things bout NOD32, but heard everywhere that its more of a complicated 1 to use.)
i personally use Kaspersky Internet Security & dont have a problem.

(trust me & everyone here when we say ALLWAYS use a virus scanner... the nets just swarming in them. me & a mate hopped on the net with no anti virus protection (AVP) & we went directly to the virus scanner side & downloaded his (not KIS) & it detected over 200 viruses in the 10mins we were on the comp!. viruses can do some pretty screwed up things & this sounds a lot like something a virus would do. u should give kaspersky a try free 30 day trial HERE)

 

[mysticjon]

Kaspersky is my 100% only virus scanner i'd recommend (have heard just as good things bout NOD32, but heard everywhere that its more of a complicated 1 to use.)
i personally use Kaspersky Internet Security & dont have a problem.

(trust me & everyone here when we say ALLWAYS use a virus scanner... the nets just swarming in them. me & a mate hopped on the net with no anti virus protection (AVP) & we went directly to the virus scanner side & downloaded his (not KIS) & it detected over 200 viruses in the 10mins we were on the comp!. viruses can do some pretty screwed up things & this sounds a lot like something a virus would do. u should give kaspersky a try free 30 day trial HERE)

hey just got kaspersky and it did what alot of other av do, it detected almost everything on my computer as a win hag32 thing, the program went out of control so i just uninstalled it....but besides the usual, it did find 5
'viruses" and to my knowledge i didn't recgonize the file location, so i got rid of them....but thanks again, i think one of those 5 files was making my computer do weird things....still i wouldnt use av if i had a computer from the future

 

[Firedomain]

i havent ever had it detect anything thats not a virus/trojan/etc.
if your unsure what its detecting, usually it will have a link somewhere where it will tell you about what it found & what it does (with most things)

i hope we helped in anyway.

 

[mysticjon]

i havent ever had it detect anything thats not a virus/trojan/etc.
if your unsure what its detecting, usually it will have a link somewhere where it will tell you about what it found & what it does (with most things)

i hope we helped in anyway.

weird....av seems to do that to me. but my computer is fine now

 

[Firedomain]

have you ever put AV on as soon as its formated before going online? coz a lot of viruses store themselves on your system restore file where windows cant delete. so every time your comp starts it recopies itself & once u delete it again it begins again! a lot of viruses appear to do nothing but do do a lot in the background. a while ago (when we had ISDN) we got a dialer on our (my dads, not mine )'s comp & it was calling the other side of the world continuously & luckily we got out of paying for it coz it was a virus & they let us off & just banned international calls from our phone.

(sorry, just got home from a night out!!!! i hope my post makes sense! lol)

Edit: ANYWAY!!! if you have system restore enabled i'd recommend temporarily disabling it & then doing a full computer scan & with any luck (if there are viruses there then there will b a lot of luck) it'll fix any "background" problems.

 

[regan1985]

Profiles Fail to Load

i get this problem and i can load stuff up but its a different profile and i have googled it and from what ive seen its somthing to do with the refistry but i cant seem to solve it,has any1 got some ideas?

 

[btarunr]

RAID issues during installation

Hello.

Last time around when installing the OS, I used a floppy with the AHCI driver to make Windows Setup recognise my RAID 0 array. I've heard that you can now supply it a AHCI driver using a CD too. Shortly after winter when I "spring-clean" my system, I want to use the CD with an AHCI driver instead of floppy. I only have one optical drive and that would be holding the installation DVD. Can I eject it to use the AHCI CD or would it mess-up?