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Foxconn motherboard bios updated today ! ;) (MB: NF4SK8AA-8KRS)
Skybuck Flying wrote:
Yeah I looked into it further today/now... my system completely back together so that nice. Boot order is also properly. Only thing which was kinda weird is soundcard set to onboard audio instead of x-fi elite pro... so have to change that manually, might have to disable onboard audio in bios if this issue remains. Disabling onboard audio in the BIOS won't help. Windows 7 has the icon in the lower right corner, and it hides the Playback and Record dialogs. So everything sound related is there, if you figure out what to click. In the Playback, all the registered sound devices will be listed. Select the one you want as the "Default", and it will be used as your output device. You can also check Device Manager ("devmgmt.msc") and see whether the x-fi elite has the sound driver installed. Once the driver is verified to be working, go back to the Playback dialog and select it. Could be interesting if bios has an option to specify which audio solution should be main or so... but maybe bios has nothing to do with sound detection and sound use and such... probably a windows thing. Another issue which pops up lately is the breakout box/volume knob not working... that I usually solve that by log off/log in... but this time a reboot was required to get it working again... I suspect it's possibly a software bug in creative labs software... or caused by gsm signals. Anyway after booting which now also goes really fast the following two issues remain: 1. one svchost.exe will consume 50% cpu for a long time... multiple minutes... this is windows update... I am kinda ok with that... as long as it stops after these minutes... shame that it has to take so long though... but that's what sleep is for to prevent that next time or so. Even if you're not using it, install Internet Explorer 11. Then, you can search online for Internet Explorer Cumulative Update August 2015, and see if an update was offered in July or August. You want one that is as up to date as possible. I found a June one, installed it, but it wasn't recent enough. Either the July or August one will help. There are other "classes" of updates with a long history that should be cleaned up too. Internet Explorer 11 plus patch, got me from 40 minutes to 10 minutes of excessive CPU usage. Even with SP1 installed, all 200 security patches and the optional ones, it'll still take five minutes before the CPU wastage stops. 2. one other issue is another svchost.exe... also concumsing 50% cpu... so on dual core system this means 100% used which is less ideal... however this only takes 2 minutes or so... it's the plug and play service... I suspect it's caused by one unknown device in device manager or so... (visible via resource manager selection doesn't give any further information about what plug and play is doing.) I don't know how to diagnose a PNP problem. Look in Device Manager for a "yellow exclamation" mark, as it might indicate the problem device. I also saw a GWX.exe shortly it don't nag though... but that's get windows X advertisement.. Hmmm there was something else I wanted to write... but forgot what it was... hmmm... thinking... Hmm I guess I will have to go into bios anyway... cause floppy drive is still enabled... it's not in the pc anymore... maybe that could be the cause of unknown device and/or plug and play usage... so I ll try and disable that see how that goes... Good idea. Disable Floppy. I'll also disable onboard audio chip... I don't use it anyway so that might save some troubles... This will make no significant difference. Only the Playback selector in the lower right corner, that's what counts. I was kinda surprised the system booted... maybe that was what I wanted to write... I only seemed to have swapped power cables... and maybe this changed boot order ? I cannot imagine that only swapping power cables would trigger that... sata cables remained the same... You ever witnessed boot order swapping just by swapping power cables ? Maybe it changed because I set boot order yesterday or so... Ok time for me to dive back into my bios ! Bye for now, thanks for you posting ! Skybuck. Not by power cables. Swapping SATA cables, yes, that makes a difference. Adding or removing floppy might upset the thing too. Check boot order after floppy is disabled. Paul |
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