You will almost certainly be told to provide photographic proof that your G25 is unusable, before they send a replacement. Just cut off USB cable that is attached to the wheel, take picture of the wheel with the cut-off cable showing in the picture, transfer picture onto PC and then send to logitech via email. If they ask you to send old wheel back, tell them you can't afford shipment, and suggest to them that you will cut the USB cable, and send photographic proof that you made the wheel unusable. They are almost certain to agree to your suggestion, as most members on this forum who have done a warranty claim will tell you, logitech asked them to cut USB cable to render wheel unusable.
If the G27 is a replacement for the G25 then i think stores that still have G25's in stock, will most likely sell those G25's at a sale price once they have the newer G27's in stock, or a sale to clear G25's ready for the G27 launch.
I wonder if through time the G25 will be taken out of production, as i really can't see the need for 2 almost identical wheels. I know Logitech still sell their older versions of mice and keyboards, but as a previous poster said the added functionality that was added to the mice and keyboards warranted paying extra cash as they were an improvement on their predecessors, but there is very little improvement between G25 and G27 to merit both wheels being in production, i assume maybe the G25 will gradually be fazed out. If the G25 does get taken out of production, then all G25 valid warranty claims will get a shining new G27. I only bought my G25 2-3 months ago.....so if it breaks in the future i might get a new G27.
I 100% agree with george tsiros, a faulty power supply could fry components of your motherboard. PSU's don't only die completely, some PSU's when they become faulty can in fact cause the power rails connected to your motherboard and other devices to go above the recommended voltage for each specific rail, effectively supplying components with too much power and causing components to fry. And a faulty PSU can on the other hand cause the power rails to not give enough power. Each power rail has a minimum and maximum voltage....and when tested the voltage should be in between the min and max value, if any rail falls below or rises above these values the PSU must be replaced.
Thanks for the welcome Bunder, the {CA} is my clan tag that i registered my s2 account with, and seeing my clan are not active in LFS i decided i wanted to join a team...so from now on i'll be known as **Nighthawk.
I'm really looking forward to being part of clockwork motorsports, and racing with my teamates and against other teams.
I'm in a clan for other games (Celtic Alliance/{CA}), but want to join a team on LFS, as no-one in my clan takes LFS seriously enough to get a team going.
What kind of team are you looking for? : race
Age:44
Country: Scotland/UK
Preferred Car: FBM, BL1, but willing to race in other cars on other tracks
Average Laptime on Your Preferred Car: 1:14:22
How Active Are You?: Almost every night
What Kind of Control do you use? G25
Time Zone: UK time
I have an LFS demo server, but i'm willing to upgrade to an S2 server to help a team out (that's if anyone will take me...lol)
well george tsiros, i'm ****in' sorry my qualifications say "PC engineer" and "network engineer". And my job is a network engineer for VM, and every other damn job i've applied for states "PC engineer" or "network engineer".
As i said i couldn't care less if you were the one who split the atom, do not try and bring me down for what you so call say is an abuse of the term "engineer". I studied physics and engineering drawing.....so don't think i don't know the term of engineer. There are many different types of engineering. Main thing that pisses me off is you trying to ridicule me on a public forum just because i mentioned i was a "PC engineer".
GO TAKE A WALK OFF A TALL BUILDING......THE TALLER THE BETTER!!!
@senninha25, a reinstall of windows is probably your best option......i've went through the process of elimination, but there are still things messed up on your comp. One bit of advice for future, don't let your comp get infected with the nasty stuff you found.....keep away from bad sites where you get pirate software or games, as most of these sites are massively infected by the hackers that hack software and games, also some torrent sites if you use a torrent program, sometimes the file you download is not what it seems. I'm not saying you use sites like this, just a bit of advice, prevention is the best form of defence for your comp, keep all anti virus and anti spyware programs upto date with their definitions, and keep away from the dark side of the internet....lol
I merely gave info and help to try and sort Senninha25's PC problems, if the help and tips i give are not successful then common sense should tell him to reinstall windows, but as he said in a previous post, he does not have a windows installation CD, and his comp has no recovery drive, so that is why i tried to help without suggesting a reinstall of his operating system. As for "PC engineer" that is the most common term in the UK for someone who builds and fixes computers, sorry i don't know the term you use in greece. I refrain from anymore communication from you george tsiros, as i just can't be arsed with your kind....blah, blah, blah.
Hi Nick.....go to add/remove programs, at top tick box that says "show updates".....scroll down and see if there is "windows service pack 3", click on it and see if you can remove/uninstall it........if not then download SP3 and run it to reinstall it....that might fix windows installer.....if that don't help then i'm afraid you may have to format and reinstall windows xp from scratch.
Also i found some info that could fix windows installer, as you mentioned you suspect your comp got badly infected by a virus, malware, trojan or alot of nasty shit. These nasties can do loads of unwanted things to your comp, what they do depends on what infections your comp got, every malicious code (that's what viruses,trojans and malware are, code made by hackers that change things on your comp, to get your PC's defences down so they can use their hacking tools to get information, bank details and other important stuff) act and compromise comps in different ways, some disable your security of your comp, some corrupt files...etc,etc.
Maybe the infection you got has corrupted windows installer files or has changed security settings disabling your comp to get latest windows updates and preventing the installation of windows installer......so here is a link with instructions that will enable you to set windows security back to default, and hopefully enable you to install windows installer:http://support.microsoft.com/d ... aspx?scid=kb;en-us;313222
you can either choose the "fix this problem" option, or do it manually (it worked with someone with similar problem with windows installer:http://forums.windrivers.com/showthread.php?t=76444)
(download windows installer from the link i posted above.)
Hi Nick, if comp recognises the ATI card, but not the nvidia one, then it could well be that the problem all along was in fact your nvidia card causing the freezes, and now has decided to die on you.....only way to tell if nvidia card is dead is to try it in another comp.....monitor is working, graphics slot is ok or ATI card wouldn't work, system recognises ATI card but not nvidia card. Ok i've thought of a couple of things before i come to the conclusion that the nvidia card is dead.
1. check in Add or Remove programs scroll down list and remove/ uninstall anything to do with NVIDIA.
next step we will check registry for any nvidia keys and remove them.
2. click start/Run, type in box regedit click ok. This will bring up registry editor. In left hand window click the + sign next to HKEY_CURRENT_USER, now scroll down and click + sign next to SOFTWARE, scroll down and find folder "NVIDIA Corporation", right click on this folder and choose delete. Now click - sign on SOFTWARE and HKEY_CURRENT_USER to close these subtrees.
Now click + sign on HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, now scroll down and click + sign next to SOFTWARE, scroll down and find folder "NVIDIA Corporation", right click on this folder and choose delete. Now click - sign on SOFTWARE and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE to close these subtrees. Now close regedit.
Don't worry about deleting nvidia from the registry, that's what we want....to clear comp of all nvidia entries, then once done reboot, then turn off comp put nvidia card back in, reboot and try again to install drivers.
If this don't work then i strongly suspect a dead nvidia card.....unless you can test it on another comp, we will not be 100% sure, but i'm 99% sure if this last thing don't work then you do have a dead card......also remember to uninstall the ATI card and drivers before you try to install the nvidia card again.
Hi Nick, as i said, if you still cannot install graphics card, please run driver sweeper again to make sure all nvidia display drivers have been deleted from system.....then turn off comp and take graphics card out, reboot comp, then turn off again.....put graphics card back into comp reboot and try to install drivers.
Also by any chance is this comp bought from a manufacturer like Dell, Hewlett packard..etc and was not built by yourself. Reason i'm asking is most of the time these comps that are built by manufacturers have problems when trying to install drivers....if comp came with windows pre-installed you should have a recovery drive when you click on "my computer" it should show "Local Disk (C:\)" and "Recovery Disk (D:\)"
If your comp does in fact have a recovery drive....you can access this by pressing Ctrl+F11 on Dell comps, and F8 for HP comps during bootup, then select recovery from the list. This will restore comp to the state it was in when first bought.
But i would run driver sweeper a few times again, and remove graphics card and put it back in, as detailed above.....as from what you say windows is not recognising the card.
has your motherboard got onboard graphics.....if it has it might need disabled in the BIOS. Also go back into device manager under display adapter make sure your card is showing.....also right click and choose properties and under device usage make sure it's enabled. Also you might need the nvidia software that goes with your card. Also try uninstalling the card again.....no need to do this in safe mode.....just uninstall the drivers......run driversweeper....clean registry....turn of PC.....open side of comp, take out the graphics card, reboot pc without graphics card in it, turn comp off again, put graphics card back in, reboot and install graphics card drivers again........sometimes graphics cards and sound cards on the odd occassion need to be taken out of slot and put back in for reinstallation of drivers to succeed, i had this problem with my audigy 2ZS sound card, i updated drivers and new ones made my settings go all wonky.....but to uninstall and reinstall it properly i had to take card out reboot, put card back in, reboot, install old drivers and all was ok. seems sometimes if traces of the drivers are still on comp after uninstalling them can cause reinstalling drivers not to install properly, so removing card after uninstalling drivers, rebooting without card in comp, then putting card back in then installing drivers seems to solve the problem.
If your graphics card is not showing under display adapters in device manager, and in device manager you see a VGA controller with a yellow exclamation mark next to it....then that tells me the graphics card drivers are not installed correctly. If you uninstalled the graphics card correctly, after you reboot the windows add hardware wizard should pop up to tell you windows has detected a new hardware device, if this happens you can close the wizard and install the drivers you downloaded.
open driver sweeper and tick NVIDIA display(not Nvidia chipset) in the right hand window, then click on Analyse and clean on the left hand window.....do this a few times to make sure drivers are cleaned.....then try installing graphics card drivers again. Also after uninstalling any drivers do a registry clean and reboot before installing any drivers again.
Well i've just logged in to LFS forum and after reading an insulting PM from george_tsiros, i was actually going to suggest my process of elimination that so called mr wonderful george_tsiros never mentioned. After reading all your posts Senninha25, especially after the post you said your monitor was resetting, i came to the conclusion that your problem was graphics orientated, plus the fact you can successfully boot into safe mode told me it was not OS specific. When booting into safe mode windows only loads essential devices and drivers, it does NOT load graphics card drivers.
Therefore to outrule either graphics card being faulty, graphics card drivers being corrupt, graphics card slot being faulty and also monitor being faulty, you should follow these steps to eliminate each of the above problems.
1. Check all cables from graphics card to monitor are secure and fitting properly, to outrule faulty cables use working replacement cables. or if you know what you are doing you can test the cables with a multimeter, the way a proper PC engineer would.
2. to outrule the monitor, try a different working monitor to see if it sorts problem. if it does not fix problem then we move on to eliminating problems with graphics card, drivers or graphics slot.
3. boot into safe mode with no networking, click on: Start/control panel/system/hardware/device manager click + sign at display adapter to show graphics card, right click and choose uninstall, when graphics card is uninstalled reboot comp into normal windows xp, see if the freezing problem is still there. This will show if the problem is driver related but could also show faulty graphics card, if freezing has stopped and you can access windows normally then reinstall graphics card drivers, then reboot into normal windows, if freezing comes back then we need to outrule graphics card fault by replacing graphics card with one known to work and installing the replacement cards drivers. If the replacement card when installed still freezes your comp then it could be the graphics slot breaking down, which is not repairable, so you would need to buy a new motherboard.
So the process of finding the fault would be to:
1. outrule monitor, by replacing it with a known working one.
2. outrule graphics card, drivers and graphics slot, by the steps i gave above.
If the freezing was in fact caused by a fault in windows, when you uninstall the graphics card and boot into normal windows the freezing should still happen.
Try these elimination procedures and post your findings.
@ george_tsiros, condescending, you actually mean snooty ignorant and so full of it your head is up your own ass. I come on this forum and if i see any posts that i can help others with my PC knowledge, who maybe are not as clued up as others, then yes i offer any help, tips and links to software that i know works and i more or less get told by you to "piss off your help is not needed".....now i looked at your profile and it seems to me that because you do coding, you think you know everything about a computer....PMSL. The last guy who i knew that was a coder and computer programmer knew jack shit about how to even upgrade his PC.....now i'm not saying you don't know anything about PC building and troubleshooting......just the way you replied to my posts was to me not acceptable.....and totally stinked of...."i know better".....also your response to me saying i'm a PC engineer also didn't go down too well with me.....it was as if you frowned upon me mentioning it. I'm qualified compTIA A+ and N+for network engineering aswell. I offer kindly to try and help yet all i get are smug remarks from you.....who the hell do you think you are!!!! i don't take shit from no-one especially some jumped up coder who thinks he knows it all.
Tell you what....it'll be the last time i post on this forum....or try to help. I don't like smartasses who think they are IT!!!
@ george_tsiros, i'm a PC engineer and my reference to combofix was merely a suggestion to prevent a reformat and reinstallation of his OS.
When my PC became badly infected due to visiting a certain warez site, none of the mentioned software in my previous post could remove the infection, the infection also disabled editing my registry, so i could not remove registry entries via regedit.....tried all the options to enable regedit, but non worked.....combofix was the only way to get rid of infection without having to format and reinstall windows.....and when combofix downloads microsoft recovery it downloads it from microsoft site which all appears on the screen.....before i used combofix i did not have an option on bootup to enter "microsoft recovery console" or "windows XP", but after using combofix i do have that option, so it does in fact download and install microsoft recovery console.
The main thing after removing a bad infection is to keep an eye on your system processes in task manager and also network activity in your firwall to make sure there are no dodgy connections being made by a program you don't recognise......when i install windows and all my programs and games i check to see how many processes are running and i check my network connections in my firewall, i know exactly how many processes are running on my comp.....and the time my comp got compromised my number of processes increased by 10, after combofix had fixed my problem, my processes went back to the number they were before infection........let's put it one way, i'm very very against hackers, and would never recommend anyone dodgy software, i recommend software that worked for me in a situation that i was tearing my hair out trying to fix, this infection rendered malwarebytes, spyware doctor, spybot S&D and kaspersky internet security suite 7 useless. And i found reference to combofix on an anti virus help forum where you post your hijackthis log and an experienced member of the forum reads your log and helps you remove any nasty shit on your PC, so i think if people like that recommend combofix....then it's fair to say it's a program that can be trusted.
if you don't believe me...search for combofix and read the many PC tech forums and sites that recommend it......here is just one: http://www.tech-faq.com/combofix.shtml
Also may i add that my other anti spyware and anti malware programs did detect my infection, but couldn't remove them....so i knew the name of the infection and searched internet for information on how to remove it, that's how i came across combofix. As i said the original posters comp freezes might not be due to his PC being infected, it could be one of a multitude of things wrong with his comp, as any good PC technician knows "you have to be at the problem comp" to go through your process of elimination to find the exact root of the problem. If the original poster could inform us of any error messages and what they say....then i think with a few of us willing to do a bit of searching on these error messages we can help him as quickly as possible.......as was said before, if it's an old comp then things do break down, and it might be a terminal breakdown of a mobo component that can't be fixed......or it could be something simple.....but as we are not in front of the comp we can't help unless we get correct info and error messages, if any, passed to us.
If it is a virus or very bad malware, you can try COMBOFIX. http://www.combofix.org/
Just follow onscreen instructions for using combofix, it may take time to finish, and you WILL have to disable any other anti virus, anti spyware programs that have real time monitoring.
My PC had bad infection and combofix was only way to remove it, i tried malwarebytes, spyware doctor, spybot S&D, yet combofix was the only program that fixed my problems. The good thing about combofix is that it automatically downloads and installs microsoft recovery console (and it's free), this is a good thing cause most anti virus, anti malware programs just delete the infected files or disinfect them. Combofix on the other hand deletes the infected files and replaces them with new uninfected files from the microsoft recovery console.
Then again your constant freezing of your comp could be from another source, for example: faulty power rails on your power supply, data cables breaking down, hard drive faulty, motherboard components or other components showing intermittant faults like your RAM (Memory), you could search for and download memtest to test your RAM, also as a previous poster said, defrag hard drive, clean registry. And make sure your comp is not overheating