Originally Posted by jordanvincent32
bios-should i update my bios system? ive heard mixed opinions on this, and im not sure if i should update it throught the asus ez-flash system, but this could be also a source of my problems
That depends on two things,
- Do you have any need to update the bios? anything that isn't working that is corrected in a new bios version? any instabilities?
- Do you feel comfortable flashing the BIOS as if this goes wrong you could be stuck with a tricky repair
Originally Posted by jordanvincent32
-Java- I've been having problems with installing the correct version of java, I dont know what it is that has been causing me to have problems with this, but everytime i install java it seems to lead to more problems, so im looking for the correct version that i should use
Get the Java runtime environment from
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Originally Posted by jordanvincent32
-Video Files/Codecs - I like to use bittorrent for watching movies, and alot of times the files cannot be read because they are in the wrong format. My question is, is there a certain codec pack that will NOT mess with my video card when i play games, and is it safe to use VLC? or should i just use a video convertor? In the past, i was told that the video convertors that i used did not coordinate with my video card driver, and it was the reason why i would recieve blue screens and fatal errors in games. If there is not a suitable solution to having extra codecs without the chance of it messing up my video card drivers, please let me know, because i would gladly sacrifice a few video files for my video card driver to work
Using VLC is perfectly safe and I've never had any problems with it, as for codec packs are hit or miss in my opinion, I had no problems with K-Lite codec pack until I started doing a little video editing in WMM and I had codec conflicts and all sorts that made WMM freeze, quit and just generally break.
Originally Posted by jordanvincent32
-Royale Nior - I recently found an XP theme that i love (Royale Noir: secret XP theme uncovered - istartedsomething) and i have been told that it could be leading to my computer restarts, but i dont really see how it could work. Does this theme seem like it would cause any problems? I couldnt find anything wrong with it myself, but i wanted to ask all of you guys if you would find it harmful to my system
If that's the theme I'm thinking of (aka Luna Royale) then you should have no problems as its an official theme and signed by MicroSoft but other themes you may have problems with as they require patching uxtheme.dll
Hope this helps
-Leb
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