darthvader
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I invest as well. So far I'm up 13%.
Vanguard--->Roth IRA (tax free capital gains) -----> ETF (Exchange Traded Funds) -----> Emerging Markets ------> Hold for 5 or more years
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Dude, if you're not gonna read the whole question, you're answer has little chance of being correct. Don't bother responding next time unless you're going to read the whole thing and research.
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"Any help/ideas/suggestions welcome!
Hi, for the record I'm posting this from my notebook. Let's see:
I tried updating my desktop computer's BIOS, but it failed to do so, though it gave me a CMOS checksum error on reboot. However, all my original settings (not the default ones, but my own customized BIOS/CMOS settings) where there, just ok. So I continued booting into Windows. Then I checked BIOS version with CPU-Z and it was still in old version.
So I tried to update again, this time Windows restarted computer, but the computer never passed from blank screen, no BIOS screen, no video bios information, etc... just blank.
I tried with the BIOS recovery CDs (it's an Intel board) but it doesn't read them. I've tried this method before, burning the .BIO file into a blank DVD-R with another Intel board and it worked find, but here it doesnt work.
My system specs:
- Motherboard Intel Desktop DG965WH
- CPU Intel Core 2 Duo E4400
- RAM 512 Mb Kingston DDR 2
- DVD drive Optiarc SATA.
That's barely all because I removed the other 512 Mb and 1 Gb memory modules, the disk, the nvidia card (motherboard has integrated Intel 950 video), etc...
This is exactly what I did:
I tried running BIOS Express Update tool from Intel. It tried to restart Windows, but it couldn't. Whatever, I thought it was flashing but with Windows running this was mostly strange, but I let it do for about 5 minutes. Lots of apps from system tray were killed during this strange shutdown attempt (their icons disappeared as I passed the mouse over them), Ctrl+Alt+Supr did nothing and trying to run taskmgr from Start>Run resulted in error message saying that Windows was shutting down and couldn't create windows. So I waited about 5 additional minutes or more, then restarted by pressing Restart button from case.
Computer restarted OK but didn't update BIOS. Also told me about CMOS settings checksum error, I just pressed Enter, and nothing else happened but Windows booting and telling me it couldn't find C:\Docs and settings\<myusername>\........\Temp\PBIOSIntel.exe or something like that (whatever, let's say just %TEMP%\IntelFooBar.exe haha). I didn't give importance to this. Restarted computer to check BIOS settings, they were my customized settings without modifications so... checksum error? where? whatever this time it didn't give checksum error anyway.
Booted again into Windows, closed all programs (including explorer.exe) and run BIOS Express Update again (this time from task manager) (yeah by explorer.exe I meant explorer's process, start menu, everything got killed). This time update program did reboot computer successfully, by reboot I mean to make windows close everything and show the "bye bye we're gonna reboot now" message.
Then the blank screen appeared. A black screen. You usually see this blank screen for a second or two, then BIOS messages, Booting from hard disk... etc... But nothing appeared. No BIOS messages. No VGA BIOS initialization message too. No beeps. The monitor went into suspend state too. The fans were spinning, all leds were on, it really looked like when in old times you plugged IDE cable the wrong way and the machine remained blank on boot, well this looks exactly the same but I have no IDE cables/drives at all (100% SATA here).
So, I booted notebook, downloaded BIOS recovery file (MQ1754P.BIO), burned to DVD-RW, put into my desktop's drive, powered down, removed power cord, waited for green led in mother to turn off, removed yellow maintenance jumper, then turned on again.
Nothing happened. I've done this before with a server at work which has an Intel motherboard too, it remained at blank screen for about 5 seconds while reading like a crazy on a DVD-R I'd burned by that time, then shown lots of text and asked me to press Enter to begin recovery process, then lots more of text, then asked to power down and put yellow jumper again, did all that and voila. But this isn't the situation with my desktop board. Here it just doesn't read the DVD at all (it reads as would any DVD drive when receiving power, but nothing more than that).
So I burned but this time into a CD-R, same result.
Unplugged SATA DVD drive and plugged a spare DVD IDE I had, same result.
Removed second 512Mb RAM and 1Gb module, nVidia card, video capture card, unplugged SATA hard drive: same result.
Unplugged mouse and keyboard (both ps2) and plugged another ps2 keyboard: same result.
Now I'm giving it a last try: removed the CMOS battery about an hour ago. It's the only remaining thing I can think about.
A day ago I thought there was nothing more frustrating than trying to install OS X on a PC, but now I know there is something worse and is this (lots of obscene words) about the motherboard not wanting to boot up after two failed attemps to flash bios and having it not accept recovery methods too. sad.gif
So if anyone had this problem before and was able to solve it, or can come with ideas and/or suggestions to try to solve it, I'll welcome them with open arms.
BTW I won't be able to publish updates to SD 2.0, Stacks Lib, XAccuWeather Docklet and others until I get my desktop machine working again (I have no way to connect SATA disk to the notebook).
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Ok, replaced battery, plugged the power cord and the computer booted up instantly... into eternal blank screen. sad.gif (I mean I hadn't to press the power button, it just powered up by pluggin cord and I haven't my machine configured that way). "
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Yes there are plenty of ways to optimize the boot.
First go to the start menu
Hit run
Type in msconfig
Go to the Boot.ini tab
Click no GUI boot
Download Autoruns
Read the description of your startup items
uncheck unneeded ones
Go to start
hit run
type services.msc
disable unnecessary services (depends on what you run network vs standalone etc.)
Some ones that you can disable are the
Themes
Indexing Service
Windows Time
Error Reporting
Set Automatic updates and Background Intelligent Transfer service to manual.
I got to go to class, I'll edit this later.
Also go to our malware forums, you may also be infected. Run a scan with malwarebytes and run a hijack this log and post the logs there. The people there will help you out if you are infected. If you aren't come back here.
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Yeah I understand Matt, I've been on other tech supports site like geekstogo so I know you're not allowed to give advice unless your trained. I pretty much just copied and pasted the stuff you're supposed to do before posting in the HiJack this thread. But yeah I'll make sure I don't post any more advice than that.
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Get on another computer, download a copy of Malwarebytes, found here. Drag the installer into a USB drive.
Install Malwarebytes onto the computer that is having problems
Update Malwarebytes (if possible) by clicking the update tab so your malwarebytes will have the latest signatures
Do a quick scan
At the conclusion of the scan please save the log to a place where you can easily find it.
Then run a full scan.
and save the log.
Download HiJack This if you don't already have it and do a scan. save the logfile to an easily identifiable place.
Then post the HiJack This!, and Malwarebytes logs here:
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If the only thing preventing you from using mozilla is crappy coders, you can just use this addon for firefox and viola, all problems are solved:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1419
Just right click the tab and switch the rendering engine when you need to.
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You could also try using mozilla firefox, a more secure and customizable browser than IE8 and IE7. It's also faster.
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hmm, have you tried chkdsk /p /r in the repair cmd window?
Try this and tell me if it makes any affect.
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Get on another computer, download a copy of Malwarebytes, found here. Drag the installer into a USB drive.
Install Malwarebytes onto the computer that is having problems
Update Malwarebytes (if possible) by clicking the update tab so your malwarebytes will have the latest signatures
Do a quick scan
At the conclusion of the scan please save the log to a place where you can easily find it.
Then run a full scan.
and save the log.
Download HiJack This if you don't already have it and do a scan. save the logfile to an easily identifiable place.
Then post the following logs in our HiJack This dept. Also you can (the admins will have to inform me of this) post the MBAM logs here.
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Ok nevermind then, I thought it would be interesting but as most people don't care for the topic just close it.
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I don't get how its POS if I've managed to eliminate unnecessary processes on the OS? as you can see by the commit charge I have plenty of memory.
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Maybe if Hamas would stop using hospitals and school buildings as arsenals, there wouldn't be any civilian causalities and the liberal Times would have nothing to gripe about.
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So did it work? Did you install from the admin account?
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You definetly should have a Run as Administrator when you right click the command prompt. Try clicking the command prompt located in
Start - All Programs - Accessories
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Start
Search
type: "cmd"
Right click Command Prompt
Click Run as administrator
Type:
"Net user administrator /active:yes" without the quotations
Press Enter
Restart computer
Logon to the new administrator account
Try installing the program on this account.
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Buy a USB attachment for your hard drive, connect it or slave it to a second computer, run a scan on it with malwarebytes, Put it back in, and tell me if that works for you
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you should be able to find the sata drivers online, you can then burn them to a disc and make a bootable cd.
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Type about:robots into the address bar and then press enter. Then make sure to press the "Try Again" button.
Hope it gives you a laugh.
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If the Repair Option is not Available
What should I do? Most important do not ignore the information below!
If the option to Repair Install is NOT available and you continue with the install; you will delete your Windows folder and the Documents and Settings folders. All applications installed that place keys in the registry will need to be re-installed and will require the original install media.
You should exit setup if the repair option is not available and consider other options. I have found if the Repair option is not available, you have a few paths I have listed below to try before XP requires a Clean install.
Another option to consider (since the cost of 100 + gig hard drives has dropped to well under $75) would be to disconnect the current hard drive and install a clean XP from retail disks or restore media to a new hard drive. You can then connect the original hard drive after configuring the jumpers to a slave drive. You can retrieve important files. One thing to remember, if a hard drive has not been formatted or written over by reinstalling, the data is accessible. The less you access a hard drive after a non-boot episode; the better your chances of retrieving your data.
Very important!!
If you still have the ability to access the Windows XP installation, backup all important files not restorable from other sources before attempting any recovery console or other trouble shooting attempts.
Possible Fix by reconfiguring boot.ini using Recovery Console.
1.Boot with XP CD or 6 floppy boot disk set.
2. Press R to load the Recovery Console.
3. Type bootcfg.
4. This should fix any boot.ini errors causing setup not to see the XP OS
install.
5. Try the repair install.
One more suggestion from MVP Alex Nichol
"Reboot, this time taking the immediate R option and if the CD letter is say K: give these commands
copy K:\i386\ntldr C:\
copy K:\i386\ntdetect.com C:\
(two other files needed - just in case)
1. Type: attrib -h -r -s C:\boot.ini del C:\boot.ini
2. Type: BootCfg /Rebuild
which will get rid of any damaged boot.ini, search the disk for systems and make a new one. This might even result in a damaged windows reappearing; but gives another chance of getting at the repair"
Tell me if this works for your repair option.
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You can find it in the wallpapers only thread. I got it from /wg/