LordFisher Posted February 8, 2012 Share Posted February 8, 2012 Please read, I don't know what to do. Perhaps I'm being stupid, and the solution is simple, but I can't find it anywhere, which rings warning bells for me. I recently wiped my hardrive; after stopping a printer/connector from starting at boot, I blue screened. It was probably linked to some sort of essential hidden process. Any attempt at fixing the problem was futile, so I resorted to backing up all my games and bits and bobs, users etc. in safe mode. T'was a long and boring process. I wiped my hardrive, and proceded to install all the basics, and created a backup (something I wasn't sensible enough to do last time). I then proceded to restore the games...fun! Anyhow, after mind boggling sarcasm, I ended up trying to play Skyrim, and I noticed it had only set my settings to medium quality when previously it was always set to ultra. After scratching my head for a while, making my freinds beleive I had lice, I realised something could possibly be different! To msconfig I rode, and low and behold, the core counter was set to 1 not 6 I was told. So I set it to 6 and maximum memory to be used, and restarted when prompted. Of course it wasn't that simple. If theres one thing consoles are good for it's their simplicity. I understand enabling more cores increases startup time, but this was bloomin ridiculous. After ages of my life that I shall never recover were spent waiting for the PC to start up, it then decided to realize I had typed in my password a manageable time of five minutes after! Time to go to the pub. I left it logging in, and returned to find a seemingly normal desktop. Nothing reacted to the mouse or mouse click. Ctrl Alt delete followed, and to my anguilalalala came up with a black screen and then prompted me that something was up with my PC and that I should turn it off by the button. Pfft, tell me something I don't know. I guess I should count my blessings, at least safe mode still worked. I reset the values to before, 1 core, and also un-ticked maximum memory, and restarted. Which brings me to the present, now, talking to you, my fellow intrepid PC brothers and sisters. I would be surprised if you are still reading up to now, but if you are, here's a metaphorical pat on the back, and maybe a hug for good measure. If you have any information on the problem, or even a solution, please share. Also, if my ineptitude is the problem, please resolve to swearing at me in your head, or perhaps sticking my name on a dartboard, or whatever floats your boat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordFisher Posted February 9, 2012 Author Share Posted February 9, 2012 Still need help! Bump! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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