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I,ve bought a 19,5" 1440x900 IPS Asus monitor for a secondary rig and it has horrible grainy text. I,ve tried a lot things, different connections and cards, Cleartype etc. but those aren't fixing it. What gives?
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So you've already tried cleartype and still sucks?
are you using a digital connection? hdmi/dvi?
what model is it? is it also a monitor/tv? sometimes those tv models have some weird shit you have to disable, like for instance some samsungs have horrible text unless you rename the connection to pc or hdmi or some shit and it magically works, it's really fucked up.
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We've been experiencing an issue on several PC's at work that I have never seen before. After logging on, in 20 minutes or less, no executables can be run. We can run whatever we want until whatever goes wrong initiates. The running apps continue to run, but nothing new will. The executable shows in task manager, but the apps never open.
We have scanned the PC's with just about everything you can think of. These are domain computers and we use the enterprise version of McAfee, We've tried Malwarebytes, rootkit scanners, and lots of other things, but nothing is ever found. The event viewer shows that a bunch of services crash at the point that the problem starts. It's random which ones crash first. We have four computers that this happens on, all of them in different departments. Windows 7 Pro.
We're stuck. Any suggestions?
We have scanned the PC's with just about everything you can think of. These are domain computers and we use the enterprise version of McAfee, We've tried Malwarebytes, rootkit scanners, and lots of other things, but nothing is ever found. The event viewer shows that a bunch of services crash at the point that the problem starts. It's random which ones crash first. We have four computers that this happens on, all of them in different departments. Windows 7 Pro.
We're stuck. Any suggestions?
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Sounds like a GPO problem, delayed start service that is screwing everything up or some sort of application/network service that modifies the registry.
Basically depending on the domain setup, for security it might not save any registry settings locally when you reboot but something might edit it at run-time to cause Windows to no longer run executables and start crashing services.
No idea what it could be with that little info, though.
Basically depending on the domain setup, for security it might not save any registry settings locally when you reboot but something might edit it at run-time to cause Windows to no longer run executables and start crashing services.
No idea what it could be with that little info, though.
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I guess if I had to put money on it it's that GPOs are set to like 30min-1 hr updates and whatever setting or registry edits it is doing is nuking the machines which then reboot to a clean image and repeat. So they go screw with things view it screwing up, can't figure it out, reboot and it works fine then GPO destroys the PC again and repeat.
I,ve tried Cleartype and smooth fonts on and off.
Used all sorts of connections (DP, DVI and VGA, no HDMI on this one).
Tried both AMD and Nvidia cards with the latest drivers.
It's an Asus BE209QLB, not a TV monitor. Colours and brightness are great, but the text is downright horrible. Had this issue come up before with other monitors, usually all it took to fix it was Cleartype/smooth fonts.
Frenzied Wombat
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1) Try logging on with the network cable unplugged and see if the issue reoccurs
2) Try logging on locally instead of the domain and see if the issue reoccurs
3) Run a procmon capture on file/registry access and see what's going on at the time shit starts to stop working
I don't think it's a GPO or other issue or you'd have more PC's affected, unless of course you have a policy just targeted at these PC's in question
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We've tried all those suggestions already. We think it might be something to do with Windows Update and connecting to our WSUS server. The WSUS server shows they haven't checked in since 2/10/16, even though we manually fire off a check. We noticed the wuau DLL would crash right before the issue starts. We've tried a couple Windows Update fixes found online, but nothing has worked.
Nah, it's not this either.
Thanks everyone for your answers.
I've contacted ASUS support and they pretty much told me to send it back to the retailer.
Frenzied Wombat
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I don't see how a broken Windows Update could cause these problems, but if a dll is crashing then i'd run sfc /scannow to see if you have any corrupt system files. Also, if you want to eliminate Windows Update as the possible culprit disable the service and see if the problem still occur.
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So I'm struggling with an issue on my home PC and I'm not sure if it's my internet connection in general (cable line/modem/etc) or related to my PC and possibly NIC issues. Anyway, this week i've been having issues where my connection will hiccup and I lose everything for half a second. Which causes me to drop from battle.net, disconnect from any game I'm in, even mumble mid-raid cuts off and I have to reconnect to all of the above.
However, it's literally a split second because voice stops on mumble, and if I just click disconnect/reconnect im instantly back in to the same channel and voices continue. It's just a pain in the ass because I can't re-open WoW until b.net realizes I disconnected.
Is there any good software tools to see if I can find an error that caused something to disconnect and have to reconnect to pin down this issue? Similar to using windows logs to find the cause of a critical error/crash? I'm just struggling to find a starting point.
I even ran a continuous ping to an address for a few hours in a command window to catch it happening and I only had 1 lost packet the whole time.
However, it's literally a split second because voice stops on mumble, and if I just click disconnect/reconnect im instantly back in to the same channel and voices continue. It's just a pain in the ass because I can't re-open WoW until b.net realizes I disconnected.
Is there any good software tools to see if I can find an error that caused something to disconnect and have to reconnect to pin down this issue? Similar to using windows logs to find the cause of a critical error/crash? I'm just struggling to find a starting point.
I even ran a continuous ping to an address for a few hours in a command window to catch it happening and I only had 1 lost packet the whole time.
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I used my networking Ouija board, it's your router.
I can almost smell the Linksys from here.
Tarisk
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Nope =/ Was even doing it when going directly into the modem. Also not a linksys router. Seems to be an issue directly with my PC.And only those two programs seem to hiccup. can stream/download/etc. Nothing stops there at the same time. (also has done it with both stressing my connection and when I'm not).
Thankfully only happens every hour and a half or so the last few days but still tiresome.
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To be honest if you don't have any major connectivity issues as in packet loss or ping issues then it's likely dying hardware. If you have tried replacing the coax and Ethernet cables, there's really only so many other potential culprits.
Modems and routers die all the time, if you can remove the router go pick up a new modem at a place with solid return policy like Costco and swap it out with the cable company.
I've never personally had a NIC fail but next step would be to pick one up. Worst case you lose a pcie slot and just don't use your mobo one.
You can try looking for new nic drivers or even third party ones, update bios and whatever but sounds like the adapter is just releasing randomly.
If you want to get really dirty you can turn on logging on your cable modem if it supports it. Maybe something like cable modem screwing up reading channel information so it times out and requests it again which causes the hiccup.
Modems and routers die all the time, if you can remove the router go pick up a new modem at a place with solid return policy like Costco and swap it out with the cable company.
I've never personally had a NIC fail but next step would be to pick one up. Worst case you lose a pcie slot and just don't use your mobo one.
You can try looking for new nic drivers or even third party ones, update bios and whatever but sounds like the adapter is just releasing randomly.
If you want to get really dirty you can turn on logging on your cable modem if it supports it. Maybe something like cable modem screwing up reading channel information so it times out and requests it again which causes the hiccup.
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When looking around with people having similar issues, someone also mentioned the ethernet cable and replaced it to fix it. Which is unfortunate because i'll have to run a long one through those pain in the ass spots again. But I wouldn't be surprised if it was the problem. the cable is probably close to 10 years old. With two people suggesting that, im gonna start there before changing NICS etc. Because this was also happening on my old system. This build is only just a year old now.