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covenant
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ok im not sure if this goes in the "tech" section but i was not sure where else to put it

here goes

i installed / tried to install alcohol 120 and after i did my computer blue screened, with the message it was doing so because it was trying to protect my computer from faulty hardware :S

after 2 hours of fiddling i finally managed to log on without my computer blue screening

"YAY" i thought finally ive fixed it BUT

now it gets confusing i tried to play a game inserted disk clicked on shortcut and it told me please insert DVD of "game"
even though the game was in the drive.
right then the only explanation is that:
in the bottom right part of my computer i get the safetly remove hardware option in it it says

"safely remove WDC WD64 SCSI - disk device (drives D: C"
this must be whats wrong and when i try and remove it it tells me that its inuse and i cant remove it

how do i fix this :S, all i can think of is that alcohol confused my computer into thinking there was more disk drives (i have uninstalled alcohol)

im on vista btw ANY THOUGHTS ARE WELCOME I AM CLUELESS
Freezer7Pro
I don't come here a lot anymore.
+1,447|6464|Winland

Please give us your full system specs.


Mod:  please be polite.
The idea of any hi-fi system is to reproduce the source material as faithfully as possible, and to deliberately add distortion to everything you hear (due to amplifier deficiencies) because it sounds 'nice' is simply not high fidelity. If that is what you want to hear then there is no problem with that, but by adding so much additional material (by way of harmonics and intermodulation) you have a tailored sound system, not a hi-fi. - Rod Elliot, ESP
FatherTed
xD
+3,936|6767|so randum
i thought alcohol 120 is meant to tell your PC you have more disk drives?
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covenant
Member
+4|6481

Freezer7Pro wrote:

Please give us your full system specs.


Mod:  please be polite.
how does this have anything to do with system specs ?????????

but if u want them they are

Processor:     
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz (4 CPUs), ~2.4GHz
Memory:    
4000MB RAM
Hard Drive:    
629 GB
Video Card:    
2 x NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT
Monitor:    
Generic Non-PnP Monitor
Sound Card:    
Speakers (Creative SB X-Fi)
USB Root Hub - razer krait
Operating System:    
Windows Vista™ Home Premium (6.0, Build 6001) Service Pack 1 (6001.vistasp1_gdr.080425-1930)
covenant
Member
+4|6481

FatherTed wrote:

i thought alcohol 120 is meant to tell your PC you have more disk drives?
i thought that as well but even after uninstalling it still seems to think they are there :S
Freezer7Pro
I don't come here a lot anymore.
+1,447|6464|Winland

covenant wrote:

Freezer7Pro wrote:

Please give us your full system specs.


Mod:  please be polite.
how does this have anything to do with system specs ?????????

but if u want them they are

Processor:     
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz (4 CPUs), ~2.4GHz
Memory:    
4000MB RAM
Hard Drive:    
629 GB
Video Card:    
2 x NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT
Monitor:    
Generic Non-PnP Monitor
Sound Card:    
Speakers (Creative SB X-Fi)
USB Root Hub - razer krait
Operating System:    
Windows Vista™ Home Premium (6.0, Build 6001) Service Pack 1 (6001.vistasp1_gdr.080425-1930)
What matters here is your motherboard.

What I'd do is to reinstall your chipset drivers, and uninstall any non-hardware optical drives from Device manager.
The idea of any hi-fi system is to reproduce the source material as faithfully as possible, and to deliberately add distortion to everything you hear (due to amplifier deficiencies) because it sounds 'nice' is simply not high fidelity. If that is what you want to hear then there is no problem with that, but by adding so much additional material (by way of harmonics and intermodulation) you have a tailored sound system, not a hi-fi. - Rod Elliot, ESP
covenant
Member
+4|6481
ill try and reinstall chipset but when i tried to uninstall the offending optical drive from device manager it just reappears after i restart
Aries_37
arrivederci frog
+368|6842|London
Try reinstalling alcohol, setting the number of drives to 0 and undoing anything else it did. Then uninstall it again.
covenant
Member
+4|6481

Aries_37 wrote:

Try reinstalling alcohol, setting the number of drives to 0 and undoing anything else it did. Then uninstall it again.
ok mate ill try that, cheers

only thing is last time i installed alcohol my pc blued for about 1 hour until i did a diagnosis and repair with one of the f keys

Last edited by covenant (2008-10-16 13:29:56)

Scorpion0x17
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+691|7032|Cambridge (UK)
@Freezer: Dude, chill.

@Covenant: What Freezer was trying to say is a) that shouldn't be happening, b) as you suspect something appears to be screwing up and c) we're going to need more information about your system if we're going to work out what's going on.

Ok, first, please go to Device Manager, maximize the window, then expand all of the categories, so you can see all the hardware in your system listed, now, please take one or more screen-shots (you may need to start at the top of list, take one screen-shot, scroll down page, take another, and so on) of that and post them here so we can see what's listed.

(in case you don't know how to take a screen shot, do it like this: when you've got device manager ready, press PrtScn (on standard keyboard this button is to the right of F12, just above Insert), that puts a picture of the screen into the clipboard, so then load up MS Paint, and hit Ctrl-V (to paste the screen shot into Paint), now just save that image to your hdd, and repeat the process; scroll the list in device manager, take screen shot, paste into paint, save to disk; until you've got screen-shots of the entire list - then, to post them here, go to somewhere like imageshack, and, on at a time, upload the images there and copy-and-paste the link it gives you for each one into you post here (surrounding them with the correct [img] bbcode, obviously)).
covenant
Member
+4|6481

Scorpion0x17 wrote:

@Freezer: Dude, chill.

@Covenant: What Freezer was trying to say is a) that shouldn't be happening, b) as you suspect something appears to be screwing up and c) we're going to need more information about your system if we're going to work out what's going on.

Ok, first, please go to Device Manager, maximize the window, then expand all of the categories, so you can see all the hardware in your system listed, now, please take one or more screen-shots (you may need to start at the top of list, take one screen-shot, scroll down page, take another, and so on) of that and post them here so we can see what's listed.

(in case you don't know how to take a screen shot, do it like this: when you've got device manager ready, press PrtScn (on standard keyboard this button is to the right of F12, just above Insert), that puts a picture of the screen into the clipboard, so then load up MS Paint, and hit Ctrl-V (to paste the screen shot into Paint), now just save that image to your hdd, and repeat the process; scroll the list in device manager, take screen shot, paste into paint, save to disk; until you've got screen-shots of the entire list - then, to post them here, go to somewhere like imageshack, and, on at a time, upload the images there and copy-and-paste the link it gives you for each one into you post here (surrounding them with the correct [url]bbcode, obviously)).
kks ill do it in the morning
TopHat01
Limitless
+117|6171|CA
Dude, the E6600 is two cores, not four.  I have it.

Otherwise, good luck fixing your problem.
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