Posts by bluewolf82

fadedorca66 said:Maybe just disable the floppy drive in the BIOS and it should stop showing up

Oh, I am well aware of that, truly, haha. My actual concern lies with the CD drive... is it possible that the installation process will simply pivot back to trying to use the floppy drive once I have disabled it in the BIOS?

I have spent some time poking around that site regarding the various beep codes... you mentioned receiving a 2-8-1 sequence, but since I could find nothing quite like that, I ended up testing a 2-4-4-1 pattern on a Phoenix BIOS instead. It seems the underlying issue points toward a "set up hardware interrupts vector" error. Might I suggest that Google be your closest ally here? Perhaps a bit of targeted searching on 😁
might yield the clarity we need.

Larry Ortiz5 said:Could you walk me through how you cleaned it? Do you mean you actually opened the casing up to clean the internals?

Well, when the disc gets grimey on the inside... a simple toothbrush and some WD-40 can work wonders.

fadedorca66 said:I guess I read that pretty fast 😁

Did this just happen out of nowhere, or were you messing around with something first? Is the burner SATA or ATA?

It happened quite spontaneously; the connectors are SATA.

Angela Flores4 said:Just double-check that the SATA cable hasn't shaken loose, if only to cross one more thing off your list of potential culprits.

The connection is perfectly secure, seated firmly in both the motherboard and the drive, yet an oddity has emerged: the system is identifying it as a floppy disk. After I attempted to repair the ISO using a Microsoft fix, I decided—perhaps out of pure stubbornness—to disconnect it from the motherboard entirely. Upon reconnecting it, the system immediately began installing a driver... for a floppy drive, of all things. How curious is that?

fadedorca66 said:First, check if you can even see it in the BIOS. Do you actually know how to get into the BIOS settings?

That DVD-ROM is probably just some virtual drive from an emulation program like alcohol or Daemon Tools.

It appears I was quite clear in my previous assertion: the drive is nowhere to be found, neither within the BIOS nor recognized by the operating system. I went so far as to perform a complete reinstallation of Windows 7 Ultimate, yet even the DVD-ROM has vanished from existence. It functioned perfectly fine under the old OS, but in this new installation, there is absolutely no trace of it—not in the BIOS, not in the Device Manager, and certainly not in My Computer. How can a piece of hardware simply cease to exist after a software refresh? 😢

I find myself in a rather perplexing predicament and would appreciate any insight you might be able to offer. My CD/DVD RW drive has seemingly vanished from existence; it is neither recognized by my BIOS nor detected by the operating system. I have already attempted to navigate through the registry to adjust the filters, but to no avail, as there were no upper or lower filters present to modify in the first place. Currently, Windows Explorer shows nothing but a floppy drive and a DVD-ROM—which is merely a placeholder for the missing RW drive. Earlier today, I took the drastic step of reinstalling Windows, yet the situation has only deteriorated. Now, the drive is entirely absent, leaving me with nothing but that persistent, useless floppy drive which continues to show up as installed despite being physically disconnected. As for the DVD-ROM, it has disappeared entirely. To clarify the strangeness of the matter: when I press the physical eject button on the drive, it functions perfectly fine—the tray opens, closes, and even accepts a disc—yet the hardware remains completely invisible to the Device Manager, Explorer, and the BIOS alike. Does anyone have any ideas as to what might be causing such a selective disappearance?
I am currently running Windows 7 Ultimate on a system equipped with 4GB of RAM, utilizing a Sony OptiArc AD-5240S DVD-ROM drive paired with an ECS 945P-A motherboard.

I would suggest navigating to Start/Control Panel/Device Manager/Mice and other pointing devices/right-click on your mouse/Properties/Power Management/check "Allow this device to wake the computer"

Or perhaps more simply, in English 😁: Start/Control Panel/Device Manager/Mice and other pointing devices/right-click on your mouse/Properties/Power Management/check "Allow this device to wake the computer"

For those who prefer a more efficient route, one might try pressing the Start button + R, typing devmgmt.msc, then right-clicking the mouse, selecting Mice and other pointing devices, choosing Properties, moving to Power Management, and finally checking "Allow this device to wake the computer"

I trust this provides some clarity 😉

I find myself wondering if such a thing is even possible, though perhaps you might verify your startup settings just to be certain (you can type msconfig into the Start menu and navigate to the Startup tab, or, should you happen to be running Windows 8, simply press Ctrl+Shift+Esc to access the Startup menu directly). It would also be prudent to run a scan using Malwarebytes; it is an exceptional tool in my estimation. I sincerely hope these suggestions prove useful to you. 😉
LINK:https://www.malwarebytes.org/mwb-download/confirm/

It is simply impossible for those to be smudges (assuming you are referring to dirt on the screen), given that every single circle maintains an identical diameter and features the exact same shadow along the edges 🤣

There might be a slight complication here, given that I don't actually possess a CD drive, haha.

I happened to download the free version of Avira from their official website, and now I find myself in need of an activation code.

I recently picked up a Dell Inspiron 17, and frankly, the thing is absolutely cluttered with what I can only describe as digital refuse. Malwarebytes just finished its scan and flagged 21 separate "threats," including something labeled rogue.multiple involving a suspicious BITAF33.tmp file. Beyond the malware, the system is bloated with various utilities like abdocs, abmedia, abphoto, Cyberlink Photo Director, Power Director, Power DVD, Pokki Start Menu, Spotify, and WildTangent Games. As far as I am aware, none of this is essential to the core operating system, yet they all seem to be hogging resources during startup. While the system boots up relatively quickly, I still find myself wanting to clean this mess up properly. Has anyone else dealt with such excessive bloatware on a new machine, and would you recommend stripping out these specific programs?

It appears I actually went ahead and installed it right while we were discussing it, using an Intel driver updater tool, and... 2012?! Quite amusing, isn't it?

Lawrence Barnes64 said:If you have enabled it, simply click "check for updates" and observe what occurs... the graphics driver should manifest there... if it does not, one might consider downloading it manually from the manufacturer's website.

Well, there have been quite a few updates rolling out over the last few days... I installed some yesterday, yet today I find myself facing further updates for Microsoft Lync and Office 2013... the question remains, will they be present within the Windows update menu? I suppose I stumbled slightly regarding 😉

Does anyone happen to know why I am being prompted for an accelerator driver for Windows XP when I am clearly running Windows 7?
specs:
-intel pentium dual core 2.10gHz
-4GB RAM, 2.93 usable
-320gb WD HDD
-gpu:Mobile Intel( R ) 4 Series express chipset Family

An update was released today for one of my favorite games, and everything seemed perfectly fine for about an hour or two. However, I was suddenly met with this strange flickering effect, reminiscent of the visual artifacts one might see during a Windows installation process. The screen goes entirely black, the window borders lose their transparency and turn a solid blue, and then everything snaps back to normal. This was never an issue prior to the update; everything functioned flawlessly until now. Now, whenever I join a particularly crowded server, Unity crashes immediately—likely due to some underlying bug—and when I attempt to play on a server filled with complex structures and objects, the visuals simply freeze. The audio continues to run in the background, suggesting the game is still processing, yet the image remains static for a second or two before that aforementioned flickering occurs. On the most recent occasion, I was actually greeted by an error message from GPU-Z.

By the way, when I right-click on the drive and select properties, the status displays a warning
—though I haven't actually launched the program yet.

So... I click on the quick test, and it informs me that I should close all running programs to avoid losing data on both the C: drive and the Z: drive (reserved/system-100mb)

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CrystalDiskInfo 5.6.2 (C) 2008-2013 hiyohiyo
TechCrunch : http://crystalmark.info/
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OS : Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 [6.1 Build 7601] (x86)
Date : 2015/04/03 19:48:47

-- Controller Map ----------------------------------------------------------
+ Intel(R) ICH9M-E/M SATA AHCI Controller [SCSI]
- ATA WDC WD3200BEVT-2 SCSI Disk Device
- Slimtype DVD A DS8A4S SCSI CdRom Device

-- Disk List ---------------------------------------------------------------
(1) WDC WD3200BEVT-22ZCT0 : 320,0 GB [0/X/X, pd1] - wd

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(1) WDC WD3200BEVT-22ZCT0
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Model : WDC WD3200BEVT-22ZCT0
Disk Size : 320,0 GB (8,4/137,4/320,0/----)
Buffer Size : 8192 KB
Queue Depth : 32
# of Sectors : 625142448
Rotation Rate : 5400 RPM
Interface : Serial ATA
Major Version : Serial ATA major version : ATA8-ACS Minor version
Minor Version : ----
Transfer Mode : SATA/300
Power on count : 9016 hours
Power On Count : 9296 count
Temperature : 42 C (107 F)
Health Status : Good
Features : S.M.A.R.T., APM, AAM, 48bit LBA, NCQ
APM Level : 0080h [ON]
AAM Level : 80FEh [OFF]

-- S.M.A.R.T. --------------------------------------------------------------
ID Cur Wor Thr Attribute Name
01 200 200 _51 Read Error Rate
03 187 185 _21 Spin-Up Time
04 _90 _90 __0 Start/Stop Count
05 200 200 140 Reallocated Sectors Count
07 100 253 __0 Seek Error Rate
09 _88 _88 __0 Power-On Hours
0A 100 100 _51 Spin Retry Count
0B 100 100 __0 Recalibration Retries
0C _91 _91 __0 Power Cycle Count
C0 200 200 __0 Power-off Retract Count
C1 184 184 __0 Load/Unload Cycle Count
C2 105 _81 __0 Temperature
C4 200 200 __0 C4 200 200 __0 Reallocation event count C5 200 200 __0
C5 200 200 __0 Current Pending Sector Count
C6 100 253 __0 Uncorrectable Sector Count
C7 200 200 __0 UltraDMA CRC Error Count
C8 100 253 _51 Write Error Rate