Quote from george_tsiros :

do you think the innards of a laptop can withstand that kind of temperature? most motherboards give up when they reach 75-80. nvidia chipsets start giving problems when overheating.

True. Damn HP Pavilions with Nvidia GPU's!!

Quote from NotAnIllusion :

I had another look at the power profile I'm using, and it says 'Put the computer to sleep after' and the value is '30 mins'. I recall various problems with Windowses recovering from hibernate/sleep modes. How likely is it that sleep mode changed the CPU speed to minimum, but never changed back to full speed upon 'waking' or completely shutting down? Certainly sounds plausible imo.

Yep that could be the case.

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I have a slider here that allows me to put the maximum speed back to 100%, but I don't want to do this until I'm sure none of the cooling components have failed..

I think it should be alright doing it. Anyways, computers these days have fail-safe mechanisms in case of overheating, so they either shut down or underclock themselves. If the fans are completely dead, you would notice it pretty fast.

You can usually see the fans spin, and hear them as they kick in and out or varying it's speed. The problem with notebooks, is that the air vents gets cluttered with dust and fibers, because people tend to leave them in their sofa, chair or something. So over time a layer of dust builds up blocking hot air from escaping. And as the cpu runs hotter and hotter, it clocks itself down to avoid overheating, essentially making it run slower and slower.

If it feels extremely hot when you hold your hand on the chassis around the mousepad area or underneath in the fan area, there could be a problem.

But 36C for each core should be fine, also indicating the fans are working. If it gets over 60C you have a problem. I've seen notebooks with temperatures well over 80C. You could literally fry an egg on them!

Ooookayy!

At least you learned something new today.

Hard to say what's caused it. Could be some sort of malfunctioning of the drive, or just one of those unfortunate things that can happen. You can try to use the repair option when booting from the Win7 DVD, and see if it can fix it.

All hard drives with partitions on them have a MBR. It holds the drives partition table info.

How does the disk look like in Win7's Disk Management? Is it totally empty, or listed as a RAW disk?

Ah ok Pringles. Maybe someone could update first post with that link.

I have a wrecker to report. It's actually the first time I've seen such blatant and deliberate wrecking happening in S2. For a moment I thought I was back in demo. This happened last night on LR Race Center 1, and this guy (fbrandalise) was wrecking everything and everyone. In my opinion he deserves to have his license taken away. I suggest all server owners put him in their ban list - he's already added to ours.

Replay attached.

Maybe, if the live cd has a build environment, but then you might get into trouble when trying to run the file on a different system, because of mismatches in system libraries etc.

Yes, computer problems can be really strange sometimes. Good that you got it sorted.

Quote from [RCG]Boosted :

btw, i dont have a boot.ini anymore (tdu uninstaller yay) could that be a problem?

It shouldn't.

Look at this guide here. Might be a solution in there.

Hmm, might be something wrong with the network stack. Try these commands in a cmd prompt:

netsh int ip reset resetlog.txt
netsh winsock reset

Check that you have "Client for Microsoft Networks" and "File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Networks" installed in the network connection.

There's version 5.04 (newer than those from wingmanteam) on the Logitech website. They work perfect in 7.

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Try this: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto ... ight-click-menu-in-vista/

Or if it still refuses, you can use a Linux live cd to remove the dir from there.

Quote from danthebangerboy :

After a lot of pissing about the omega drivers do finally work and give me about 90fps in LFS, BUT, i lose the aero bit of win7, and to be honest it looks without it, so i am just gonna leave it looking shiny but with worse FPS until i build a new PC.

Did you rerun the system assessment test?

Quote from obsolum :

Yes, version 8.5 and yes, I added up the memory of all its processes, even though those processes actually use shared memory so you souldn't really add them up.

I currently have my LFS skins_y folder open which has some 5.500 files in it. Screenshot attached

EDIT: even I am now beginning to think there's something wrong, or that I've missed processes belonging to AVG because it should use slightly more memory than that

There's probably some services it runs that uses some memory too, which doesn't show up in the process list. When I said opening a folder with lots of files in it, I was thinking about AVG's slow realtime scanner. Especially a folder with exe files in it. That's where AVG went downhill after the 7.x versions. Its realtime scanner is just painfully slow now.

Try installing the drivers in compatability mode, it might help. What GFX card is it btw?

Quote from obsolum :

EDIT: currently AVG is using all of 4.5 MB of memory. I'd hardly call that "hogging resources".

Version 8.5? I think it uses a bit more than that. You have to combine the memory usage from all its processes. And try to browse a folder with lots of files in it, with and without AVG installed.

What the hell are you on about?

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Quote from spankmeyer :

What are these 'virusas' I keep hearing about on teh internets?

Quote from felplacerad :

Stream should be up again.

:drunk:

I only see spinning lines.