Recent content by dmcmillen

Hi Pauli. I'm a bit surprised by your response. You are correct that violating Windows licensing rules is a copyright violation. However, there is not enough information in my post for you to tell whether I violated MS licensing rules or not. Also, changing disk id's is not illegal. In my...

Hey Kemical. It's ntkrnlmp.exe that is not on my system. My system has: AMD FX-8350 (8 cores/8 threads) on ASUS Sabertooth 990FX/Gen3 R2.0 c:\windows\system32\ntoskrnl.exe c:\windows\syswow64\ntoskrnl.exe & ntkrnlpa.exe There is probably no problem at all since my old Intel i7-960 (4...

Kemical, thanks for the response! Please note I am NOT asking for help with the bsods at this time. I have already looked at the dmp files with the debugger and am running Driver Verifier to determine the underlying cause. The bsod's were just what led me to this question. I am ONLY asking...

64-bit Windows 7, Home Premium sp1, AMD FX-8350 on an ASUS Sabertooth 990FX/Gen3 R2.0 Not sure whether I have a problem or not. I have been getting some bsod's while using Sysinternals Process Explorer. My question is not about the bsod's. I have another thread going on that and am in the...

64-bit Win 7, Home Premium, SP1. I recently recovered my C: drive to a new drive (via Symantec SSR Anyware to a new computer) and kept the same disk id on the new drive. Now I want to use the old C: drive on my new system (as an additional data disk) but of course windows won't mount it because...

After a bit more investigation, it is looking like this is part of MS silently preparing the PC for possible update to Win 10. I have identified at least 5 updates on my machine that I believe deal with this: KB2990214 KB2952664 KB3022345 KB3021917 (I believe creator of the above tasks)...

In the Control Panel Action Center I have Opted out of participating in the CEIP program (don't ever remember opting in). Here's what I see: Task scheduler Customer Experience Improvement Program (3 tasks) Consolidator (%SystemRoot%\System32\wsqmcons.exe) KernelCeipTask (Custom Handler)...

Thanks Kemical. Process monitor works. Actually too much information, although it is there. And a bit difficult to correlate back to cpu spike. Problem I'm having with Process Monitor right now is that it continues to chew up memory until it's gone which doesn't take long. Trying to figure...

Anyone know of a program that can log when a particular process starts, finishes, what parameters are passed, cpu usage, etc. Process Explorer gives me that info but I have to be watching it to see the process in question. I have a rundll process that runs sometime in the morning that is using...

64-bit Win 7 Home Premium, workgroup pc (not domain). What are the problems/ramifications of changing a Computer Name? For example, how does windows handle existing shares? Thanks --David

I would like to reinstall my OEM version of 64-bit Win 7 Home Premium on new hardware (new PC). I'm having intermittent problems with my MB and want to take this opportunity to replace the machine. I was wondering if I would be able to do a phone activation of the OEM Windows. I know that OEM...

Ok. Just got off phone with Gigabyte. On_Off Charge only supplies power to the USB 3.0 and cannot cause this problem; the board works that way. They would like me to change ACPI Suspend Type from S3 to S1 to test. If problem still persists then try another PSU. The behavior is abnormal...

Thanks bassfisher. Interesting thought. on_off charge has been installed since the system was new on 7/22/2011 (along with Easy Tune 6, Auto Green, and Smart 6). I will talk to Gigabyte again later when they open. I have already talked to them a couple of times and all they suggested was to...

Thanks Pauli. I'll check out SmartClose. Right now I am thinking this is a hardware problem because: If I boot from a Linux flash drive and shut down from there - same problem as when shut down from Windows. If turn off PSU, wait for 30 mins, and turn PSU back on, fans immediately are...

No, it was the identical mobo (an RMA replacement) as before (i.e., exactly the same hardware). Right now based on my last post, this is looking like a hardware problem and not a windows problem. A fresh windows install would probably be a last resort because I have over 250 programs...