Anyone ever had this problem?

Hehulk · Post by **Hehulk** » February 21st, 2006, 16:07

My computers been playing up for a few days (that time of the month

. (It does something stupid once a month)) regarding direct x. Basicially, it forgets, or removed, direct x, fubaring all my games. Now, I use to just be able to re-install it, but that's stoped working. I've even wiped my old hard drive, re-instaled windows on a new drive, and tried starting over, but a few hours later here I am with the same problem.

wtf is going on?

Post by **Grimmie** » February 21st, 2006, 16:09

You have computer gnomes.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » February 21st, 2006, 16:10

one or more parts of your computer have cancer.

Hehulk · Post by **Hehulk** » February 21st, 2006, 16:14

But not AIDS! Oh good....

/me goes back to trying random shit

Lateralus · Post by **Lateralus** » February 21st, 2006, 16:37

Shitting in it really won't help, but have you tried CIIJACIIE?

Edit: oooo, head crab

Hehulk · Post by **Hehulk** » February 21st, 2006, 16:58

Didn't know it was posible to Ciijasiie on coding.....

Post by **deject** » February 21st, 2006, 17:49

that sounds like either registry related, or something hardware, like your hard drive is fUxx0r3dz*.

*"1337" speak to show how fucked you are.

Hehulk · Post by **Hehulk** » February 21st, 2006, 18:18

deject wrote:that sounds like either registry related, or something hardware, like your hard drive is fUxx0r3dz*.

*"1337" speak to show how fucked you are.

oh joy is me then. Somewhere my registery is fucked. More re-installing of teh junk. Or I have two hard drives that are somewhat fucked.

Cheers though. Damn sight more helpful than microsoft. (in a middle eastenr accent) "Is your computer on, what does the monitor show. Blah Blah Blah"

Fuckers.

Post by **FatherJack** » February 21st, 2006, 18:55

Hehulk wrote:Microsoft: "Is your computer on, what does the monitor show. Blah Blah Blah"

Doubtless with the sound effect of a cash register in the background.

Hehulk · Post by **Hehulk** » February 21st, 2006, 19:36

Ah well. gona make a slipstreamed install disk, then start over again. Stupid f**king software. Why can't my computer ever work the way I want to it!

Post by **TezzRexx** » February 21st, 2006, 21:07

Could it not be the graphics card?

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » February 21st, 2006, 21:09

it could be.

i wonder if it's just dropping into troubleshooting flavour for some reason (display properties > settings > advanced > troubleshooting)

also dxdiag might tell you a bit

wyrd · Post by **wyrd** » February 21st, 2006, 21:19

my first port of call would be to swap you gfx card witha mate and trying again

if that fils, sneek a small partition at te beging of your drive and see if it moves/ removes the problem

Hehulk · Post by **Hehulk** » February 22nd, 2006, 0:23

Well, sorta looks like logic ftw. Been going through re-installing everything very slowly, paying attention to what drivers windows is using, and having now duno my graphics drovers, something odd crept up. According to Dxdiag, I'm still using the default windows drivers (those being the vga.dll ones), while my device manager says I'm using the sapphire ones (I've got a fairly new X700. Got it in January).

Now, when I get the card it took nearly 2 days of jiggery pokery with different drivers and much help from berk to get the damn thing working. Think I should take it back and get a replacement? Or might it be something else?

Never even heard of this kind of problem, where the computer says your using two different sets of drivers for one device, so I'm really feeling quite flumoxed. Not sure which reading to trust either, as I have no real faith in microsoft, and both readouts come from their software.

mrbobbins · Post by **mrbobbins** » February 22nd, 2006, 0:27

If you have a serious hardware problem and the best answers you get out of this forum (especially including Deject and Berk's answers!) are "your hard drive is fUxx0r3dz" and "your computer have cancer" then you really are fucked my friend!!

Hehulk · Post by **Hehulk** » February 22nd, 2006, 0:35

Tis as I feared then. I'll go take it down the local computer shop tommorow, tell them the problem, then get charged through the nose.

Cheers all.

cashy · Post by **cashy** » February 22nd, 2006, 0:37

Hehulk wrote: Never even heard of this kind of problem, where the computer says your using two different sets of drivers for one device

were you using an onboard graphics card before this? if so you will want to make sure you do everything short of ripping it out with a hammer (bios etc)

other than this i dont know what to suggest, quite an odd one

Post by **Dog Pants** » February 22nd, 2006, 8:02

Hehulk wrote:Tis as I feared then. I'll go take it down the local computer shop tommorow, tell them the problem, then get charged through the nose.

Cheers all.

Make sure you remove all your donkey porn first.

Post by **Roman Totale** » February 22nd, 2006, 20:04

Dog Pants wrote:
Hehulk wrote:Tis as I feared then. I'll go take it down the local computer shop tommorow, tell them the problem, then get charged through the nose.

Cheers all.
Make sure you remove all your donkey porn first.

Why?