Aaaaaaargh. Stupid Yuku.
So, I downloaded an update for my antivirus, and now, whenever I try to
play any sound (game, system, music, or video file) after letting my
machine go to sleep, it BSODs and restarts itself too quickly for me to
read what's going on. When it comes back up, Fucking Vista claims that
my (built into the motherboard) 'Audio Device is not installed'.
Rebooting the machine does not get my sound back, but shutting it all
the way down and bringing it back up does. Once I have it back
it works fine until the next nap.
Now, I was planning to nuke my current system back to the bare metal at
some point anyway, but when the system comes back up after the
crash Fucking Vista's 'let me find a solution for this' box tries to
pin it on the hardware. I wouldn't trust this OS if it claimed the sun
rose in the east, but it seems wisest to see if anyone has a way to
make sure before I start my rebuild.
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"V, did you do something foolish?"
"Yes, and it was glorious."
Quote:So, I downloaded an update for my antivirus
Not hardware
Quote:after letting my machine go to sleep
Windows has never handled Suspend/Sleep/Hibernate well, IMO. don't use it.
"No can brain today. Want cheezeburger."
From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies
Quote:Windows has never handled Suspend/Sleep/Hibernate well, IMO. don't use it.
*blinkblink*
You can shut it off? Oh, happy day!
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"V, did you do something foolish?"
"Yes, and it was glorious."
...er, not what I meant. Like, at all.
What I'm referring to is what the machine does to itself if you leave it alone without orders for long enough. Being able to prevent that would be great, but I hadn't understood to be possible.
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"V, did you do something foolish?"
"Yes, and it was glorious."
V, just checked my laptop, under control panel, power options, are your options for hibernate, sleep and whatnot.
...and it claims that it was already set to never go to sleep. WTF.
Well, I've switched it so that it won't shut off the monitor any more, we'll see if that does anything.
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"V, did you do something foolish?"
"Yes, and it was glorious."
Also, Advanced System Settings (right click on my computer, select properties, select Advanced System Settings), under the Advanced Tab, select the Settings
Button for Startup and Recovery. In the section for System failure, uncheck 'automatic restart'.
Update: Apparently, sleep mode has nothing to do with it and instead it just triggers after any sufficiently long period without a sound played.
Either that or it's getting worse.
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"V, did you do something foolish?"
"Yes, and it was glorious."
Tip for general testing if the problem is with the hardware: Use a linux live CD, if it works then it is not the hardware if it has the same problem it's
the hardware.
But in this case it doesn't sound like a hardware problem but I have gotten leery of determining that from just user reports.
E: "Did they... did they just endorse the combination of the JSDF and US Army by showing them as two lesbian lolicons moving in together and holding hands and talking about how 'intimate' they were?"
B: "Have you forgotten so soon? They're phasing out Don't Ask, Don't Tell."
*has no Linux CD*
Update: have started to encounter garbling and skipping from audio tracks before they fail out of my previous 'safe periods'.
I figure that I can find a cheapo sound board either from the family parts bin or from Wal-Mart without much trouble, but if this is hardware, is it likely to
stop at just the sound chips or keep creeping outwards until the entire thing goes?
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"V, did you do something foolish?"
"Yes, and it was glorious."
If this is the sound card, replacing it fixes the problem. If it's your MB or CPU....
I've been using motherboard sound, yes.
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"V, did you do something foolish?"
"Yes, and it was glorious."
Then burn one it is not hard and they are available for free. For a transient failure like this though it can be a pain to use the liveCD long enough to be
sure that the failure either happened or didn't.
If it is a hardware failure then it depends on the type of failure that occurred weather it will spread or not. Ussually though the damage won't spread (It
would require rather severe manufacturing defects).
E: "Did they... did they just endorse the combination of the JSDF and US Army by showing them as two lesbian lolicons moving in together and holding hands and talking about how 'intimate' they were?"
B: "Have you forgotten so soon? They're phasing out Don't Ask, Don't Tell."
This all started after you d/l'ed an antivirus update? I *really* hope you're going to tell me you did that from within your AV software; if you
dl'ed one from your e-mail labelled "AntivirusPro 2009", well, I hate to be the bearer of bad tidings, but there's a virus going around with
that title in e-mail.
I've had several friend's systems hosed by this.
No, this was Norton's autoupdate causing the problems.
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"V, did you do something foolish?"
"Yes, and it was glorious."
Since it hasnt been mentioned, have you tried redownloading the sound card drivers from the maker and reinstalling?
A trick I have used to get vista/xp to reinstall drivers it doesnt seem to want to recognize consistently is to disable it in bios, boot, and then reboot with
it back on.
That is assuming its onboard sound however.