computer broke.

2010-11-04 09:45:18

#351

Uzique: dasein.; +2,865|6680

dude i've used the monitor for 3 years, do you really think i'd be that fucking retarded to buy it again if it was reflecting white lasers into my eyeballs whilst gaming? "hmm the monitor is alright and all but shame about the perpetual squint..." it's glossy material casing, not a hall of mirrors. it doesn't detract at all. it's a minor aesthetic difference that has no bearing on the visual quality or user-experience whatsoever.

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2010-11-04 09:56:35

#352

ghettoperson: Member; +1,943|6858

I assumed he was joking, surely no one would be as retarded to make statements about the shinyness of your monitor bouncing light into your eyes?

2010-11-04 10:08:43

#353

Bertster7: Confused Pothead; +1,101|6791|SE London

If you really need a monitor, I have loads of CRTs lying around. Good quality ones (iiyama, lacie etc.) that have much better image than any LCDs you'll find. Only problem is that they're pretty big and heavy.

2010-11-04 10:10:12

#354

Uzique: dasein.; +2,865|6680

it's on its way now... but thanks a lot bertster, appreciated

i do miss the old CRT-era. such fantastic response time!

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2010-11-04 14:31:58

#355

unnamednewbie13: Moderator; +2,053|6981|PNW

I miss CRT's, but not their gutbusting weight or opening the chassis to adjust them.

And to a few posts above, yeah. I haven't really seen all that much difference between matte and gloss unless you're playing in sunlight or in a room with florescents all over the ceiling.

2010-11-05 08:39:32

#356

Uzique: dasein.; +2,865|6680

alright, so, two-fold request:

1) gimme the low-down on best CPU/GPU monitoring software and CPU/GPU 'testers' (i.e. for temps and stability). I see screenshots sometimes on overclocking websites and am just wondering what these tools are and where i can get them from, for testing my own system. because of all the fucking around and system crashes (no CPU fan was working), it has reverted to dead-standard settings and i need to reunlock it in the BIOS. i'm looking to overclock this i5 760 to around 4.0Ghz (as advertised), and i'm wondering what the best steps to do this are.

2) I have a new 1Tb drive but at the moment i'm running my old hard-drive with win7. how would i go about formatting the 1Tb drive with windows 7 and then making it my 'primary' drive? I want to run this old hard-drive as a secondarily accessible drive, but i'm looking to port all of the apps, games and whatnot to the new, faster and less-old 1Tb. a step-by-step of the best way to achieve this 'reversed' set-up (and to format the 1Tb drive) would be muchly appreciated.

+karmaz for help with either. im lazy, i know, but i've completely ran out of initiative and effort for this

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2010-11-05 08:41:26

#357

alexb: <3; +590|6149|Kentucky, USA

Uzique wrote:
alright, so, two-fold request:

1) gimme the low-down on best CPU/GPU monitoring software and CPU/GPU 'testers' (i.e. for temps and stability). I see screenshots sometimes on overclocking websites and am just wondering what these tools are and where i can get them from, for testing my own system. because of all the fucking around and system crashes (no CPU fan was working), it has reverted to dead-standard settings and i need to reunlock it in the BIOS. i'm looking to overclock this i5 760 to around 4.0Ghz (as advertised), and i'm wondering what the best steps to do this are.

2) I have a new 1Tb drive but at the moment i'm running my old hard-drive with win7. how would i go about formatting the 1Tb drive with windows 7 and then making it my 'primary' drive? I want to run this old hard-drive as a secondarily accessible drive, but i'm looking to port all of the apps, games and whatnot to the new, faster and less-old 1Tb. a step-by-step of the best way to achieve this 'reversed' set-up (and to format the 1Tb drive) would be muchly appreciated.

+karmaz for help with either. im lazy, i know, but i've completely ran out of initiative and effort for this

LinX to test stability, CPU-Z and HWMonitor for monitoring your computer.

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/sho … p?t=201670

Last edited by alexb (2010-11-05 08:41:48)

2010-11-05 08:42:16

#358

Lucien: Fantasma Parastasie; +1,451|6862

for CPU stress testing I use LinX, because it breaks bad OCs extremely quickly. CoreTemp for monitoring temperatures.

2010-11-05 09:20:05

#359

Bertster7: Confused Pothead; +1,101|6791|SE London

Uzique wrote:
alright, so, two-fold request:

1) gimme the low-down on best CPU/GPU monitoring software and CPU/GPU 'testers' (i.e. for temps and stability). I see screenshots sometimes on overclocking websites and am just wondering what these tools are and where i can get them from, for testing my own system. because of all the fucking around and system crashes (no CPU fan was working), it has reverted to dead-standard settings and i need to reunlock it in the BIOS. i'm looking to overclock this i5 760 to around 4.0Ghz (as advertised), and i'm wondering what the best steps to do this are.

2) I have a new 1Tb drive but at the moment i'm running my old hard-drive with win7. how would i go about formatting the 1Tb drive with windows 7 and then making it my 'primary' drive? I want to run this old hard-drive as a secondarily accessible drive, but i'm looking to port all of the apps, games and whatnot to the new, faster and less-old 1Tb. a step-by-step of the best way to achieve this 'reversed' set-up (and to format the 1Tb drive) would be muchly appreciated.

+karmaz for help with either. im lazy, i know, but i've completely ran out of initiative and effort for this

2) Install Windows 7 on new drive. Use Windows Easy Transfer as described here:

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/wind … r-computer

Easy.

2010-11-05 10:18:18

#360

Finray: Hup! Dos, Tres, Cuatro; +2,629|5997|Catherine Black

Beaten to it, above recommendations are perfect.

2010-11-05 11:07:46

#361

Uzique: dasein.; +2,865|6680

ok ive lost my win7 disc and don't have any blank DVD's left

is there any way to install win7 to a new hard-drive from within the current hard-drive partition?

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2010-11-05 11:11:02

#362

Finray: Hup! Dos, Tres, Cuatro; +2,629|5997|Catherine Black

Use the Easy Transfer thingie above

2010-11-05 11:15:08

#363

Uzique: dasein.; +2,865|6680

it says you have to install win7 to a new drive first... surely?

just formatting a drive with NTFS won't do it?

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2010-11-05 12:02:57

#364

Bertster7: Confused Pothead; +1,101|6791|SE London

Uzique wrote:
it says you have to install win7 to a new drive first... surely?

just formatting a drive with NTFS won't do it?

Quite right.

There are two main options open to you: You could clone the drive with some drive cloning software or you could download a pirate copy of Windows 7 and use your license with that.

I would recommend the latter.

Ah - missed the "don't have any blank DVDs left". You can do it from a USB stick or drive, if you have one.

Last edited by Bertster7 (2010-11-05 12:04:57)

2010-11-05 12:05:39

#365

Uzique: dasein.; +2,865|6680

my first copy is pirated... i don't have any DVD's or a USB drive with enough capacity to burn the ISO

can't i just somehow install win7 onto the other drive from this one? seems retarded that i need external media

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2010-11-05 12:09:07

#366

Bertster7: Confused Pothead; +1,101|6791|SE London

Uzique wrote:
my first copy is pirated... i don't have any DVD's or a USB drive with enough capacity to burn the ISO

can't i just somehow install win7 onto the other drive from this one? seems retarded that i need external media

You could clone the drive. I wouldn't, as I've had bad experiences with cloned Windows installs - stuff just seems to go wrong more often with them.

You may be able to put the ISO onto a dedicated partition and boot to that, then install that way - but I've never tried that. It may or may not work.

2010-11-05 12:22:06

#367

Uzique: dasein.; +2,865|6680

i'll pop into town tomorrow and get some blank DVD's . . .

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2010-11-05 15:48:25

#368

Dilbert_X: The X stands for; +1,813|6315|eXtreme to the maX

Windows easy transfer is absolutely terrible in my experience, it was going from XP to Vista which may be part of it and ended with horribly corrupt user profiles, damaged files etc.

Maybe for files only it would work.

Fuck Israel

2010-11-05 15:56:33

#369

Uzique: dasein.; +2,865|6680

yeah i'm skeptical of things like that... just always wondered if there was an easier way than the pirated, long-way i did things in the past

i'll just install win7 onto the new 1Tb drive from scratch and then order it as the main/primary boot device in BIOS

this 3-year old WD 500Gb is a slow piece of shit nowadays... has seen some serious use. really holding back my system.

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2010-11-06 04:40:55

#370

Bertster7: Confused Pothead; +1,101|6791|SE London

Dilbert_X wrote:
Windows easy transfer is absolutely terrible in my experience, it was going from XP to Vista which may be part of it and ended with horribly corrupt user profiles, damaged files etc.

Maybe for files only it would work.

As far as I'm aware it's only supposed to be used to transfer between the same versions of Windows (not what Microsoft claim, but it always fucks something up). Going from XP to Vista using it is asking for trouble. Win 7 to Win 7 should be fine.

Last edited by Bertster7 (2010-11-06 04:42:48)

2010-11-06 04:47:56

#371

Dilbert_X: The X stands for; +1,813|6315|eXtreme to the maX

Bertster7 wrote:
Dilbert_X wrote:
Windows easy transfer is absolutely terrible in my experience, it was going from XP to Vista which may be part of it and ended with horribly corrupt user profiles, damaged files etc.

Maybe for files only it would work.
As far as I'm aware it's only supposed to be used to transfer between the same versions of Windows (not what Microsoft claim, but it always fucks something up). Going from XP to Vista using it is asking for trouble. Win 7 to Win 7 should be fine.

Well the version I had was touted as doing the transfer seamlessly from XP to Vista.

Here's the current MS blurb:

Use Windows Easy Transfer to copy your files, photos, music, e-mail, settings, and more from a computer running Windows XP to a computer running Windows 7. You can transfer data using an Easy Transfer Cable, removable media, or across a network

Kill yourself rather than try this.

Fuck Israel

2010-11-06 05:10:14

#372

Bertster7: Confused Pothead; +1,101|6791|SE London

Dilbert_X wrote:
Bertster7 wrote:
Dilbert_X wrote:
Windows easy transfer is absolutely terrible in my experience, it was going from XP to Vista which may be part of it and ended with horribly corrupt user profiles, damaged files etc.

Maybe for files only it would work.
As far as I'm aware it's only supposed to be used to transfer between the same versions of Windows (not what Microsoft claim, but it always fucks something up). Going from XP to Vista using it is asking for trouble. Win 7 to Win 7 should be fine.
Well the version I had was touted as doing the transfer seamlessly from XP to Vista.

Here's the current MS blurb:
Use Windows Easy Transfer to copy your files, photos, music, e-mail, settings, and more from a computer running Windows XP to a computer running Windows 7. You can transfer data using an Easy Transfer Cable, removable media, or across a network
Kill yourself rather than try this.

Don't trust them.

Which versions were you using? Even Microsoft don't claim it works from 32 > 64 bit or vice versa - in fact 64-bit XP is not even supported.

2010-11-06 06:13:46

#373

Dilbert_X: The X stands for; +1,813|6315|eXtreme to the maX

It was 32 bit XP Pro to 32 bit Vista IIRC.

Transferred four users, two came through OK, one totally corrupted, one all sorts of weird user account problems.

Anyway, good luck.

Fuck Israel

2010-11-06 06:41:46

#374

Uzique: dasein.; +2,865|6680

i probably won't use that method, anyway

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2010-11-06 08:36:09

#375

Uzique: dasein.; +2,865|6680

question: now i have formatted and installed win7 on another drive... must i reinstall all the drivers again?

is there any way to totally transfer all of that crap? will the above-mentioned windows tool do it for me?

im lazy

EDIT: really frustrating problem. when i go to install ati catalyst drivers on my new 'main' 1tb drive (A:\) it says 'invalid folder'

and will not let me install it. however if i try to install it to my previous old 'main' drive (C:\)... it will do so

even though the C-drive already has all the drivers running on it - as it's my 'old' windows...

what's going on?

Last edited by Uzique (2010-11-06 09:05:23)

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