Have you got pie today?

[thebluebumblebee]

No, no.. a CABINET.

Serious answer, look for computer recycle locations. But, in reality,they seem to get expensive (the cabinet is the cheap part). A shelf like james888 or buck_nasty (NSF) have will work just fine.

 

[Nordic]

Spoiler: Shelf

Cheap, lightweight, moddable, breakable, moveable, no tools needed, great airflow, oh, and could fit 2 motherboards per shelf if you did it right.

 

[Norton]

Time for Pie.....!
October 20th, 2014

Are you in our Top 20?

Or almost there?

Spoiler: Positions 21 thru 30 Today

Challenge Day 5....3 days to go!!!..
AFTERBURNERS ON!!!

Congrats to All of our crunchers!!!

 

[[Ion]]

Finally over 60k again

 

[15th Warlock]

Afterburner on indeed, awesome pic Bill, I love the blackbird

That Haswell-E sure boosted my output, and it's running a 100% stock, just got Windows installed on it, downloaded the boinc client and it was off to the races!

 

[Norton]

Time for Pie.....!
October 21st, 2014

Are you in our Top 20?

Or almost there?

Spoiler: Positions 21 thru 30 Today

Challenge Day 6....2 days (48hrs) to go!!!..
WE'RE BURNING IT UP!!!

Congrats to All of our crunchers!!!

 

[manofthem]

Great work Pie Eaters!

As soon as this challenge is winding down, I need to stop new work from coming, shut down the 4790 and reinstall Windows, unless I can figure out a way to boot back into Windows. Ever since installing Mint, I can't boot back into Windows; I don't get power to my usb devices (mouse or kb) until after the boot loader page is gone, and that means I can't choose to load Windows... very strange.

And this Saturday is a LAN and I need Windows and Steam. Hopefully I can get it all done swiftly.

 

[stinger608]

Great work Pie Eaters!

As soon as this challenge is winding down, I need to stop new work from coming, shut down the 4790 and reinstall Windows, unless I can figure out a way to boot back into Windows. Ever since installing Mint, I can't boot back into Windows; I don't get power to my usb devices (mouse or kb) until after the boot loader page is gone, and that means I can't choose to load Windows... very strange.

And this Saturday is a LAN and I need Windows and Steam. Hopefully I can get it all done swiftly.

Use a PS2 keyboard? If you don't have one, they are pretty cheap at Walmart, Kmart, or somewhere like that.

 

[Nordic]

Great work Pie Eaters!

As soon as this challenge is winding down, I need to stop new work from coming, shut down the 4790 and reinstall Windows, unless I can figure out a way to boot back into Windows. Ever since installing Mint, I can't boot back into Windows; I don't get power to my usb devices (mouse or kb) until after the boot loader page is gone, and that means I can't choose to load Windows... very strange.

And this Saturday is a LAN and I need Windows and Steam. Hopefully I can get it all done swiftly.

Grub should pop up asking you which to boot up in. You could press f8 I believe to bring up an OS choice. That is unless you didn't install it as a dual boot which is the default option.


UGM has affected my ppd for sure.

 

[manofthem]

Use a PS2 keyboard? If you don't have one, they are pretty cheap at Walmart, Kmart, or somewhere like that.

I don't have one, but that's a good idea

Actually, I was just thinking about it and I may not have to do it (brain is working a little slow tonight, the beer ). The LAN was supposed to be at a friend's house this time, but he's not able to host it, so it's back to my place, which means I can use my main rig and the 4790 can sit in the corner all alone. But still, I need to figure out what's going on with it.

Grub should pop up asking you which to boot up in. You could press f8 I believe to bring up an OS choice. That is unless you didn't install it as a dual boot which is the default option.


UGM has affected my ppd for sure.

It's dual booting, and the grub would allow me to select OS as you say. However, I can't get anything form keyboard, no power, so I can't select Windows, and it loads Mint automatically.

 

[Nordic]

I don't have one, but that's a good idea

Actually, I was just thinking about it and I may not have to do it (brain is working a little slow tonight, the beer ). The LAN was supposed to be at a friend's house this time, but he's not able to host it, so it's back to my place, which means I can use my main rig and the 4790 can sit in the corner all alone. But still, I need to figure out what's going on with it.



It's dual booting, and the grub would allow me to select OS as you say. However, I can't get anything form keyboard, no power, so I can't select Windows, and it loads Mint automatically.

I don't understand why you can't use keyboard. You need your keyboard.

 

[manofthem]

I don't understand why you can't use keyboard. You need your keyboard.

Indeed so, it is needed and yet the keyboard and mouse remain dead until it starts to load the os, and I've tried 2 USB keyboards and 2 USB mice. Very peculiar, never saw it before. Maybe a mobo issue? I'll spend some time paying with it after the challenge.

 

[twilyth]

I've had that problem on occasion. That's why I keep an old wired keyboard around. Not that I can ever find it when I need it, but it's here someplace.

 

[[Ion]]

Awesome work guys, let's stay strong through the end of the competition and beyond

 

[ThE_MaD_ShOt]

Great work Pie Eaters!

As soon as this challenge is winding down, I need to stop new work from coming, shut down the 4790 and reinstall Windows, unless I can figure out a way to boot back into Windows. Ever since installing Mint, I can't boot back into Windows; I don't get power to my usb devices (mouse or kb) until after the boot loader page is gone, and that means I can't choose to load Windows... very strange.

And this Saturday is a LAN and I need Windows and Steam. Hopefully I can get it all done swiftly.

Hey @manofthem have you tried enabling IOMMU in the bios? I have one of my rigs that "lost" usb while booting Linux and found IOMMU is the fix for it.

 

[manofthem]

Hey @manofthem have you tried enabling IOMMU in the bios? I have one of my rigs that "lost" usb while booting Linux and found IOMMU is the fix for it.

I haven't been able to enter into the bios on my windows install, there's an MSI option to boot right into bios without having to press anything, but I don't know if there's a similar option with Mint.

 

[Norton]

Can you interrupt post/boot a few times to make it think there was a problem? Asus boards will do that saying "failed overclock" or similar language

 

[ThE_MaD_ShOt]

I haven't been able to enter into the bios on my windows install, there's an MSI option to boot right into bios without having to press anything, but I don't know if there's a similar option with Mint.

I'm talking about initial boot before it loads oses. Pressing the del key as soon as it beeps the first time to enter system bios. Get there and toggle IOMMU to eneble then see if your usd works at the boot loader. Also you can unhook the os drive to eliminate that from holding you up.

 

[Nordic]

Whole reason I would think you would want to reboot into windows is so you don't have to take the hour to reinstall windows and all your programs. I have it practiced where I can do all that in 30 minutes. I even have a custom windows 7 rom with almost all the updates just to make it go quicker.

It still would be so much easier if you just kept your old windows.

 

[twilyth]

An image backup can save you from a reinstall too. It's tough finding free backup software though. I use Macrium on this machine which I think is still free or at least has a free version that includes scheduling. I use an old version of TrueImage on another machine but I've had problems restoring with that software.

 

[manofthem]

Can you interrupt post/boot a few times to make it think there was a problem? Asus boards will do that saying "failed overclock" or similar language

I didn't think of this, but this is a good idea, thanks

I'm talking about initial boot before it loads oses. Pressing the del key as soon as it beeps the first time to enter system bios. Get there and toggle IOMMU to eneble then see if your usd works at the boot loader. Also you can unhook the os drive to eliminate that from holding you up.

To the first part, you are correct but I can't hit delete since the kb isn't responding. So it's a no go.

To the second part, that's a good idea that I never thought of. I will try this also. Thanks

Whole reason I would think you would want to reboot into windows is so you don't have to take the hour to reinstall windows and all your programs. I have it practiced where I can do all that in 30 minutes. I even have a custom windows 7 rom with almost all the updates just to make it go quicker.

It still would be so much easier if you just kept your old windows.

Yes, I would prefer not reinstalling. Luckily, there's practically nothing on this pc in case I do need to reinstall; under Windows there's just os, updates, boinc, and steam , and I recently deleted all games while re-partioning before the Mint install. Under mint, there's just os, updates, boinc, video driver.

An image backup can save you from a reinstall too. It's tough finding free backup software though. I use Macrium on this machine which I think is still free or at least has a free version that includes scheduling. I use an old version of TrueImage on another machine but I've had problems restoring with that software.

I did do a restore point before everything, so if I need to reinstall, hopefully I can restore from that



So I will do more troubleshooting post-challenge. Thanks for all the help guys!

 

[twilyth]

I did do a restore point before everything, so if I need to reinstall, hopefully I can restore from that

Restore points are fine but if you have to blow away the partition or it get corrupted/infected, a backup is a really nice thing to have.

What I used to do when building a new rig was install the OS with all of the updates and drivers and do an image backup. Then install all the essential software and do another image backup. This way when I eventually screwed up and had to start over, it wasn't quite as painful. Putting a couple image backups on an external drive can be a great safety net.

 

[thebluebumblebee]

@manofthem , are we talking about the H97-G43 motherboard? Do you have your mouse/keyboard plugged into the ports below the PS2 port?

 

[stinger608]

@manofthem , are we talking about the H97-G43 motherboard? Do you have your mouse/keyboard plugged into the ports below the PS2 port?

Ah, that is a good point Bumblebe! That in itself could cause the issue.

 

[manofthem]

@manofthem , are we talking about the H97-G43 motherboard? Do you have your mouse/keyboard plugged into the ports below the PS2 port?

Yes sir, that board. And iirc, I had them next to the ps2 since building it a few months ago, and then the issue arose last week. Since then, I've tried different USB ports without any change.