The Computer Megathread

[Becquerel]

Whats "Framedynos.dll"

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[Ethan]

Whats "Framedynos.dll"

As much as I am here to help, I don't really appreciate my time being taken up when you can just google the name and come up with a perfect answer.

It's a system file which I think is related to the control panel.

[dawngaward0110]

I bought & installed the video card Ethan recommended. Thanks man :3

But I have one problem now:
I'm using a 64-bit windows computer, and i've installed 4gb of ram. When I look at my dxdiag, it says 4096mb of ram, but when I look at my CPU meter or task manager, it only shows 2gb (and windows 7 uses loving 55% of it D:).
Any fix for this?

[popman98]

How can I get my display driver to stop crashing? It's getting really frustrating when a friend wants to show me a video but it crashes all the time and I have to log out and log in. (Wich closes down all programs and when I start again all login popups for older programs I had pop up)

[Ethan]

How can I get my display driver to stop crashing? It's getting really frustrating when a friend wants to show me a video but it crashes all the time and I have to log out and log in. (Wich closes down all programs and when I start again all login popups for older programs I had pop up)

Update it.

Start > Run > dxdiag
Post entire contents of the first tab and the display tab.

I bought & installed the video card Ethan recommended. Thanks man :3

But I have one problem now:
I'm using a 64-bit windows computer, and i've installed 4gb of ram. When I look at my dxdiag, it says 4096mb of ram, but when I look at my CPU meter or task manager, it only shows 2gb (and windows 7 uses loving 55% of it D:).
Any fix for this?

Hmm, odd.
If dxdiag is picking it up, it's obviously working and good.
But task manager is confusing.
What does CPU-Z say? Download it and tell me.

[Ethan]

I bought & installed the video card Ethan recommended. Thanks man :3

But I have one problem now:
I'm using a 64-bit windows computer, and i've installed 4gb of ram. When I look at my dxdiag, it says 4096mb of ram, but when I look at my CPU meter or task manager, it only shows 2gb (and windows 7 uses loving 55% of it D:).
Any fix for this?

Start > Run > msconfig
Boot > Advanced Options

Uncheck "maximum memory".

[SPooK]

I am sorry Ethan to sound dumb. I don't know if I am, but when you build a computer with an SSD and a SATA Drive (Like in the $1500 Rig) how do you use the SSD? Do you just install the OS on it? But if that was the case, then wouldn't all my games and programs also be placed on it? How do I do?

[Ethan]

I am sorry Ethan to sound dumb. I don't know if I am, but when you build a computer with an SSD and a SATA Drive (Like in the $1500 Rig) how do you use the SSD? Do you just install the OS on it? But if that was the case, then wouldn't all my games and programs also be placed on it? How do I do?

No.
Most people do do that, and only have important programs on the fast drive.
What I do in the OP is I have a Z68 chipset board, which means that the SSD is used as a caching drive, which in a nutshell makes the entire capacity of the big hard drive as fast as the SSD. You install the OS on the big hard drive, then after that is done you connect the SSD and install the SRT technology program.
I wrote a big thing on SSD caching somewhere in this thread. Can't find it.

[brickybob]

I say we make a church to Ethan.

ALSO
My graphics card overheats sometimes, it doesn't get damaged but the screen goes black when I play Mw2 for a prolonged time.

what do

[Ethan]

SSD stands for Solid State Drive.
It basically is a hard drive that utilizes the same Flash technology you find on USB pen drives to make a bigger, greater capacity version. It stores the information on electrical chips, instead of big magnetic platters. The advantages are:

Faster (electricity is faster than a read/write head moving along a CD like thing)
More reliable (no moving parts means less can go wrong)
Sturdier (again, no moving parts, so moving/banging it accidentally won't do much)
Smaller

Thus, they are expensive. That's why people use them to install their OS and programs for fast booting/running, but since they are so expensive, they get a bigger, standard hard drive for all their data.

Some external hard drives also use this technology, typically smaller ones, and ones that don't need separate power cords in conjunction to the USB cords.

There are numerous applications for this technology:

You can use it as a boot drive, installing OS and programs, then everything else on a bigger, slower, cheaper standard hard drive. The advantage of this is you get 8 or so second boots into Windows 7, and all your programs launch about 5 or so times faster, sometimes even faster than that. The disadvantage is that your data is still slow, and once it's full, it's full. All the rest has to be installed on the standard hard drive.

You can use it as a SRT drive (only if you have Z68 or later Intel chipsets on your motherboard). This means that you use the SSD as well as a standard hard drive, however the SSD is used as a caching device for the HDD. This pretty much speeds up the entire capacity of the HDD to speeds of the SSD, or if not full speed, close enough. So say you want to copy some files with your hard drives set up like this. Your SSD is invisible in your "My Computer" box, and only your big hard drive is there. You copy them on to the big hard drive, and they go on to the SSD instead, therefore copying super super fast. The SSD then holds on to them, and copies them to your big hard drive in the background. This is the slow part of the process, but since they have already copied to the SSD, and therefore in to the cache, to you they are already copied and this part doesn't affect you, and you can carry on with your work. That's what a SSD, HDD and Intel SRT technology can do, lol. Bit complicated, hopefully you understand.

EDIT: This also means that you can add extra HDDs later on to increase your storage space without losing data or affecting anything.

[Ethan]

I say we make a church to Ethan.

ALSO
My graphics card overheats sometimes, it doesn't get damaged but the screen goes black when I play Mw2 for a prolonged time.

what do

What is the model of the card?

[mod-man]

That's quite old.

What is your budget for a new computer? What do you plan on doing on it?
I can point you to the best parts list for your requirements.

my budget range is from 500 to 1000 dollars

[steve5451]

Interesting read, now I understand the caching thing.

[Nickelob Ultra]

From my experience;

I bought a Samsung 64GB SSD (because it came with Arkham City for free) for only $100, when SSD prices dipped a bit during the HDD price spike from the flooding in Southeast Asia.

It makes your OS a lot faster.  I can literally clock my computer at less than 15 seconds in booting up, and it's pretty much an instant log-in and Chrome goes in a snap and immediately is ready to browse.  Battlefield 3 used to take forever to load and now it's pretty much only around 15-20 seconds (which is a lot better compared to off the hard drive, it took a lot longer).

[steve5451]

Well my 120GB SATA HDD is enough for me. I don't want to spend that much for my computer to start up 5 seconds quicker. I'm going to replace it with a larger one when the HDD prices settle down.