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[Akura]

Found an interesting Reddit article. That's the same motherboard I have, an ASRock Z97 Pro4. Apparently, ASRock ships faulty CMOS batteries? At the very least, that's the cheapest and easiest possible solution right now.

I do not know what the LDO regulator is or looks like.

[Thief^]

The reddit thread you linked has this image with the LDO regulator highlighted: http://i.imgur.com/AMoBh4b.jpg

Hope that helps

[i2amroy]

I just use chrome's built-in PDF reader mostly, am I a bad person?

I use Firefox's fifty percent of the time.

I literally just use the Chrome/Safari one for non-downloaded ones or the basic mac image viewing program (which does a wonderful job with pdf's) for ones I download.

[Akura]

Replacing the CMOS battery did not work. Gonna try a few other things suggested by that Reddit thread before I take it in for diagnostic tomorrow.


EDIT: Leaving the PSU turned on for a few minutes did work. Huzzah!


EDIT2: Okay, whatever jackass designed this did not put the correct drivers on the driver disk, among them the drivers for the Ethernet device(meaning no internet). Fortunately, I do have my old USB-based wireless adapter from my days of pirating the neighbor's unsecured wifi(before they sevured it) and it still works.

[Thief^]

And it doesn't use an ethernet chip supported by Windows built-in drivers? That's unusual.

[Akura]

Appears to not be compatible with Vista. I've ordered a copy of Windows 7, so that should hopefully fix a lot of the issues I'm having.

Also found a bunch of bloatware on the install disc, including something that supposedly improves internet speed, but just launches your browser to its page on startup. And then opened to a page asking why I was uninstalling it when I uninstalled it.

[Bohandas]

Foxit is an extremely good reader, as is Nitro PDF.

Foxit uses a ribbon interface and Nitro PDF's website asked me for a bunch of personal information.

[Bohandas]

Sumatra PDF seems to work

http://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/downloadafter.html

[Aklyon]

Last time I used it foxit reader did not look like newer msoffice versions, so I'm not sure where you get the ribbon interface from.

[Bohandas]

Last time I used it foxit reader did not look like newer msoffice versions, so I'm not sure where you get the ribbon interface from.

https://www.foxitsoftware.com/products/pdf-reader/

[Akura]

Since my install disc for Windows 7 isn't going to arrive for at least until Monday, I found that legitimate .isos for Win7 are available - sans keys(which comes with the ordered disc). Should I just download one of those, put on the trial, and put in my key when it arrives?

[Aklyon]

If you can get one onto dvds or a flash drive, than sure. As long as the key work it should pop right up into licensed windows.

[Akura]

Damn, realized I purchased the OEM version of Win7, and Microsoft seems to have actually fucked builders(such as myself) over pretty bad with the OEM version of Win7. Basically, there's no support, and if I ever have to change hardware again, that's a new copy I have to buy. And no, there's no .iso (legally) available of the OEM version - and the links to the ones for the retail versions that I found seem to be redirected elsewhere now.


EDIT: Turns out my original assessment of the situation was a bit off. There seems to be a legal version available, and there's apparently no difference in the installer between retail and OEM. It's just the license key. Mine is coming in the mail, and Windows generally does offer a 30-day trial. (assuming it doesn't ask for the key during install)

[Flying Dice]

Foxit is an extremely good reader, as is Nitro PDF.

Foxit uses a ribbon interface and Nitro PDF's website asked me for a bunch of personal information.

Maybe it was just my experience, but Nitro PDF was also absolute shit. It loaded documents super-slowly and constantly crashed.

[Chiefwaffles]

Soo I'm having issues with my computer right now. I think it's driver related?

It actually only seems to occur when playing Fallout 4, so there's a small chance it could simply be a really bad FO4 bug, but I doubt it. This could also point to an issue with the GPU, which seems likely. Windows (10) has crashed pretty disastrously numerous times after about 4-10 minutes of playing. First time the audio just had a "static"-type spike for a brief moment and my computer froze when I went to the menu. Had to hard reset after that. Next time (during dialog), I experienced an even worse audio spike and my screen just turned completely red. Nothing else. Just a solid color red.
Eventually my computer reset itself.

AFTER THAT, I tried playing again. Played a tiny bit, then got to the menu. Huge extreme continuous audio spike and the game crashed. And by "continuous audio spike" I mean "audio static * 10 until the game process ended." Was able to use my computer for about a minute afterwards, then I got a BSOD with the error code "KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED." A bit of googling suggest it's a driver problem, but I can't really find any information about the overall issue other than that.

I have a Radeon R9 270. (May not be exact. Definitely R9 2xx.) My guess is Windows automatically updated drivers and I got a buggy driver for my GPU. Since I believe my GPU driver also handles audio output (I use HDMI audio), that could also explain the audio spikes. Or that may just be generic crashing stuff.

Any help here on what to do?


EDIT: Updating to beta drivers manually fixed the problem.