leik oh em jeez! Posted March 22, 2011 Share Posted March 22, 2011 (edited) So I was enjoying my freshly installed copy of Oblivion on three monitors when a breaker flipped at my apartment, cutting power to my bedroom and most of the kitchen. By the time I turned my computer back on, I had to reconfigure the BIOS. This doesn't surprise me, does it about 50% of the time when power is completely lost to the system. The problem is, when I tried to boot back into Windows 7, it just stayed at the boot screen for 15 minutes. So I switched up the boot order and booted to my already semi-f*cked up Server 2003 install. It worked fine. So I then booted back into 7, at which point it booted normally, but gave me several errors about nvidia driver-related processes. So I logged on to find ultramon tell me it expired in that short period of time, iTunes helper failed to start, and I got two C++ runtime related errors. After that, I found out that explorer crashes if I right click. After several restarts, booting to last known good configuration, running windows start up repair, and windows memory test, it's still the same thing. Also, Oblivion does nothing when I try to start it now. Counter Strike Source will go to the menu, but crash at the very thought of loading a map. Any ideas? Edited March 22, 2011 by leik oh em jeez! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Driftking120 Posted March 22, 2011 Share Posted March 22, 2011 Looks like the windows 7 install is messed up, Also why did a breaker flip at your apartment just wondering? The Hard Drive might have gone bad in a area or something to. Also Nvidia Driver Problems could mean that the graphics card is fried or is having troubles. I'd take the computer to a computer repair shop or to a good computer expert because to me its sounding like the computer is generally messed up. Hope your computer works again soon . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoječ Posted March 22, 2011 Share Posted March 22, 2011 My first thought is HDD malfunction, can you give us SMART of all your hard drives? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leik oh em jeez! Posted March 23, 2011 Author Share Posted March 23, 2011 So I tried logging on to facebook and it wouldn't let me. Came up with certificate errors and then this page cannot be displayed when I hit continue anyway. So I figured it had messed up my system clock. So I go find it on the maze of a Windows 7 control panel. (Really, was changing "Time and Date" to "Date and Time" really a necessity for a new operating system?) So I adjusted the date back to 2011 from 9999, and as soon as I hit okay, Oblivion popped up. I can also right click now. Haven't restarted yet, but everything appears to be fine. How the f*ck could the system time being off f*ck up so much? I think this is a sign that Microsoft is planning on getting rid of right click and game support by the year 9999. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PresidentKiller Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 Might have something to do with the "9999" problem of over a decade ago... http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/n.../dayintech_0909 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leik oh em jeez! Posted March 23, 2011 Author Share Posted March 23, 2011 That would explain quite a bit of it. But I'd think that Microsoft would block that year from being displayed if it caused that many problems. I mean it's one thing to assume that no one will use your product in a few years and screw something up, but I seriously doubt anyone will be using Windows 7 nearly 8,000 years from now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PresidentKiller Posted March 24, 2011 Share Posted March 24, 2011 ... I seriously doubt anyone will be using Windows 7 nearly 8,000 years from now. You never know. I actually know about people that still use Windows 3.1 in this day and age... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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