Even though when I "verify integrity of game cache" it finds ~30 files to replace each time?
It's verifying the chunks as it recieves them from the net and sending them off to the drive, doesn't then go back and check the files. Alright, just to run through the basics: Try different power and data cables and connect it to a different port. Secondly check for BIOS updates and google the problem.
Try different power and data cables and connect it to a different port. Secondly check for BIOS updates and google the problem.
Alright, I'll do that as soon as I get a chance. If that doesn't fix it, I'll see if I can borrow a hard drive from somebody else and attempt to install stuff to that. If that fixes it, RMA time.
Alright, so I've been trying to fix this for about a week...
I have a VPS server out in San Jose, and I recently wanted to install ubuntu 10.10 on it (server, obviously). I wanted a clean install, because it was running an old LTS version (I believe 9.04, but I can't remember) and I wanted to configure apache in a different way from scratch. My hosting service uses Xen, and provides an ubuntu 8.04 tarball, so I installed that and tried to upgrade from there. Bad move. Eventually it started hanging on boot and crashed.
So I tried using debootstrap to make a netboot image of ubuntu 10.10, using a CentOS recovery image. That was a long and frustrating process, and ended up not working at all.
So I looked around, and eventually came up with this. I followed the instructions here, and edited my menu.lst, but when I try to boot it crashes to initramfs, something which I didn't even know existed!
Has anyone ever had anything similar to this happen? Where should I conceivably go from here?
P.S. When it boots, here are the errors I get: mount: cannot read /etc/fstab: No such file or directory Begin: Running /scripts/local-bottom ... done. done. Begin: Running /scripts/init-bottom ... mount: mounting /dev on /root/dev failed: No such file or directory done. mount: mounting /sys on /root/sys failed: No such file or directory mount: mounting /proc on /root/proc failed: No such file or directory Target filesystem doesn't have requested /sbin/init. No init found. Try passing init= bootarg.
If you have a virtual host using Xen or whatever, you really can't go around fucking with the OS. You have to use one of the ones the hosting people provide for you, and the kernel has to be configured in such a way.
If you want to update your OS, ask the host. If they don't have the option, change hosts. Linode is always good about having new versions very quickly.
Also, if you are running a server with something serious on it, use the LTS Ubuntu, and don't upgrade it until the five year service is over.
It was definitely a defective hard drive. I replaced it with one I ripped out of my external and now everything is running perfectly. Calling Western Digital to get a replacement ASAP.
Okay, I've assembled my new system. It powers up, all the fans turn on including the one on the video card. However nothing appears on either of my screens. No BIOS or anything. Suggestions?
Okay, I've assembled my new system. It powers up, all the fans turn on including the one on the video card. However nothing appears on either of my screens. No BIOS or anything. Suggestions?
Okay, I've assembled my new system. It powers up, all the fans turn on including the one on the video card. However nothing appears on either of my screens. No BIOS or anything. Suggestions?
I tried the ones that are on the mobo. The old school blue VGA one doesn't appear to do anything, and the white digital plug does not fit for some bizarre reason. Both fit into the graphics card just fine. I did attach a dongle to the video card to convert one of the digital ports to convert it to VGA for my second monitor...perhaps I should move that dongle to the digital port on the mobo to see if it works?
Sounds to me like you may have not connected something properly. Do you have all the necessary additional power cables going into the video card?
When building a computer you have to follow the typical process of elimination.
Take the motherboard out of the case. Connect only the RAM, CPU, Video card, and power supply. Try to boot that. If that works, then put it in the case. See if it still works. If that works, then add drives and whatever one at a time making sure it works after each addition. Process of elimination.
I have two power cords going into the Vcard, it's this one. Each is a six pin. I'll also note the optical drive powers on and ejects at the touch of the button. I'm not looking forward to the prospect of unplugging and replugging every goddamned cable, particularly the ones that attach to to front of the system.
I'm not looking forward to the prospect of unplugging and replugging every goddamned cable, particularly the ones that attach to to front of the system.
Welcome to building a computer. You can't say we didn't warn you.
Clearly, you just didn't have enough Manly Spirit. Either that, or you forgot the extra 8 (6? 10?) pin Molex that needs to be attached to P55 Mobos running Quadcores. Or numerous other cables.
Welp, wasn't able to do anything with it last night, may not get a chance to do it till the weekend. I can tell you that the only cables that appear to be unattached are some power cables, but I can't see anything that they'd plug into on the board. I believe there are only some 4 pin Molex and some 4 pin standard that are not plugged into anything, but I figured they were just extras. I'll double check this weekend probably.
I think VH and I got the same idea around the same time. I plugged in the big 24 pin cable into the board last night and figured that was all I needed to do. After reading through the manual later, I found a 4 pin Molex that was on the board and had a note in the manual that was akin to "Oh, BTW, if you don't plug this shit in, your shit won't boot." I haven't had a chance to plug it in and retry, but I think that's where the problem was. EDIT: If you look at the image of the board, it's the light blue plug with four pins all the way on the left edge about halfway down the board. That little bugger wasn't plugged into anything, so I think that's the issue. There's another 4 pin directly next to it, but it's hard to see because of a black cap that's been put over it. I'm assuming that should be left as is.
Judging from the way you've described it, it definitely sounds like you did forget to plug in the aux power to the mobo. Leave the black cap where it is unless your PSU has a 6-pin or 8-pin cable for that socket. Also, if you're using an add-in video card then you can ignore the VGA & DVI ports on the mobo as most modern motherboards disable those if they detect an add-in card in the PCI-E slot.
plugged in the big 24 pin cable into the board last night and figured that was all I needed to do. After reading through the manual later, I found a 4 pin Molex that was on the board and had a note in the manual that was akin to "Oh, BTW, if you don't plug this shit in, your shit won't boot." I haven't had a chance to plug it in and retry, but I think that's where the problem was.
That's the shit I was talking about. I couldn't be assed to open up my tower and count the pins, though.
Have I basically fucked myself by uninstalling internet explorer from my laptop? I can't install IE8 or IE6 on it, and I don't have a factory default CD.
Have I basically fucked myself by uninstalling internet explorer from my laptop? I can't install IE8 or IE6 on it, and I don't have a factory default CD.
It's pretty much impossible to uninstall Internet Explorer. Windows explorer is basically the same thing. If you just open a folder and type something up top in the address bar, BAM!, it's Internet Explorer.
I'm trying to record the sound that comes from my computer. I remember being able to do this in XP with an old computer of mine using stereo mix, but it seems like windows 7 and/or Realtek want to make this as difficult as possible for me to get this to work.
I used to think I had no stereo mix, but it turns out it's just disabled. Right, I enable it, and it detects no sound. I check through the options, a checkbox with the text "listen to this device" is unchecked, so I check that. I set it to listen to the default playback device. It records nothing. I go through every single playback device in the checklist while playing music to see if stereo mix detects anything. I check every combination possible, changing the playback device and what stereo mix listens to to see if stereo mix will pick up anything on any device. I also try this with and without that little checkbox marked. As far as I can tell, stereo mix picks up nothing.
I've updated my drivers to the latest version. I have Realtek High Definition Audio device which is powering the sound in my laptop. All I want to do is record sound coming from my laptop, but the internet only tells me to use stereo mix, what u hear, or whatever arbitrary name the audio chip companies have chosen. I've tried recording with audacity, but if stereo mix doesn't work, then I can't record any sound except my mic, which is not what I want. Otherwise, I'm always linked to some bullshit trialware program.
I need a long term solution to this problem that doesn't require getting cables or buying software. For example, fraps will record audio from my video games just fine, bypassing my recoding device settings. If there's a program that can do this only for audio, and isn't trialware or shareware, it could work. Best case scenario would be that I get stereo mix working like it should instead of having this feature gimped.
I'm trying to play some Source games with a couple friends in a private server, but don't want to set up all the shit. Is there a way to get the create server button to make a internet-facing server rather than just a LAN game?
I'm trying to play some Source games with a couple friends in a private server, but don't want to set up all the shit. Is there a way to get the create server button to make a internet-facing server rather than just a LAN game?
I think you can use config files for that, although I don't know how. Otherwise, you can just use sv_lan 0 and it should work.
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Alright, just to run through the basics:
Try different power and data cables and connect it to a different port.
Secondly check for BIOS updates and google the problem.
I have a VPS server out in San Jose, and I recently wanted to install ubuntu 10.10 on it (server, obviously). I wanted a clean install, because it was running an old LTS version (I believe 9.04, but I can't remember) and I wanted to configure apache in a different way from scratch. My hosting service uses Xen, and provides an ubuntu 8.04 tarball, so I installed that and tried to upgrade from there. Bad move. Eventually it started hanging on boot and crashed.
So I tried using debootstrap to make a netboot image of ubuntu 10.10, using a CentOS recovery image. That was a long and frustrating process, and ended up not working at all.
So I looked around, and eventually came up with this. I followed the instructions here, and edited my menu.lst, but when I try to boot it crashes to initramfs, something which I didn't even know existed!
Has anyone ever had anything similar to this happen? Where should I conceivably go from here?
P.S. When it boots, here are the errors I get:
mount: cannot read /etc/fstab: No such file or directoryBegin: Running /scripts/local-bottom ... done.
done.
Begin: Running /scripts/init-bottom ... mount: mounting /dev on /root/dev failed: No such file or directory
done.
mount: mounting /sys on /root/sys failed: No such file or directory
mount: mounting /proc on /root/proc failed: No such file or directory
Target filesystem doesn't have requested /sbin/init.
No init found. Try passing init= bootarg.
If you want to update your OS, ask the host. If they don't have the option, change hosts. Linode is always good about having new versions very quickly.
Also, if you are running a server with something serious on it, use the LTS Ubuntu, and don't upgrade it until the five year service is over.
When building a computer you have to follow the typical process of elimination.
Take the motherboard out of the case. Connect only the RAM, CPU, Video card, and power supply. Try to boot that. If that works, then put it in the case. See if it still works. If that works, then add drives and whatever one at a time making sure it works after each addition. Process of elimination.
I'll also note the optical drive powers on and ejects at the touch of the button.
I'm not looking forward to the prospect of unplugging and replugging every goddamned cable, particularly the ones that attach to to front of the system.
I can tell you that the only cables that appear to be unattached are some power cables, but I can't see anything that they'd plug into on the board. I believe there are only some 4 pin Molex and some 4 pin standard that are not plugged into anything, but I figured they were just extras. I'll double check this weekend probably.
I haven't had a chance to plug it in and retry, but I think that's where the problem was.
EDIT: If you look at the image of the board, it's the light blue plug with four pins all the way on the left edge about halfway down the board. That little bugger wasn't plugged into anything, so I think that's the issue. There's another 4 pin directly next to it, but it's hard to see because of a black cap that's been put over it. I'm assuming that should be left as is.
I used to think I had no stereo mix, but it turns out it's just disabled. Right, I enable it, and it detects no sound. I check through the options, a checkbox with the text "listen to this device" is unchecked, so I check that. I set it to listen to the default playback device. It records nothing. I go through every single playback device in the checklist while playing music to see if stereo mix detects anything. I check every combination possible, changing the playback device and what stereo mix listens to to see if stereo mix will pick up anything on any device. I also try this with and without that little checkbox marked. As far as I can tell, stereo mix picks up nothing.
I've updated my drivers to the latest version. I have Realtek High Definition Audio device which is powering the sound in my laptop. All I want to do is record sound coming from my laptop, but the internet only tells me to use stereo mix, what u hear, or whatever arbitrary name the audio chip companies have chosen. I've tried recording with audacity, but if stereo mix doesn't work, then I can't record any sound except my mic, which is not what I want. Otherwise, I'm always linked to some bullshit trialware program.
I need a long term solution to this problem that doesn't require getting cables or buying software. For example, fraps will record audio from my video games just fine, bypassing my recoding device settings. If there's a program that can do this only for audio, and isn't trialware or shareware, it could work. Best case scenario would be that I get stereo mix working like it should instead of having this feature gimped.