Monday, June 01

Geek

The HDMI Audio Driver In The Explorer With A Chainsaw

Ever since I got my Radeon 4850* I've had this little problem: Windows Explorer refreshes itself at a rate of about 1Hz.  This means that the mouse pointer constantly flickers from its normal state to busy and back again, certain icons also flicker, and various drop-down boxes close themselves 500 milliseconds after you open them.

The fix I found was to completely disable the Shell Hardware Detection service - the process that brings you autoplay.  That kills autoplay, of course, but it solves the problem in explorer.

But not in Steam.  Fortunately, I hardly ever use Steam.

And so I had six months of peace.

Over the weekend, though, I went on something of an install-and-update frenzy, having, after all, 28GB of new software to try out, and I updated to Vista SP2.

And the flicker returned.  Grrr.

So I went searching for the thread where I originally posted the fix to remind myself what it was, and found that someone had come up with a much better fix: Just disable HDMI audio output.

Well, duh.  I should have guessed that instantly.

* Teraflop!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 10:41 PM | Comments (6) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
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1 Teraflop!

Posted by: pixymisa at Wednesday, June 03 2009 12:34 AM (PiXy!)

2 Hi Pixy!

About 30 minutes ago tried to load my page (c.a.2030 gmt) and got this (email addresses munged)
---------500 Internal Server Error

The server encountered an unexpected condition which prevented it from fulfilling the request.

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/cherrypy/_cprequest.py", line 342, in respond
cherrypy.response.body = self.handler()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/cherrypy/_cpdispatch.py", line 15, in __call__
return self.callable(*self.args, **self.kwargs)
File "Minx.py", line 144, in index
return go(cherrypy)
File "Minx.py", line 105, in go
notify(cp)
File "Minx.py", line 130, in notify
send_admin_email('splat*ta*mee.nu',subject,text)
File "/var/minx/live1.1/Form.py", line 46, in send_admin_email
send_email(sender,to,subject,body)
File "/var/minx/live1.1/Util.py", line 73, in send_email
s.sendmail(sender,[to],msg.as_string())
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/smtplib.py", line 695, in sendmail
raise SMTPRecipientsRefused(senderrs)
SMTPRecipientsRefused: {'andrew*ta*pixymisa.net': (550, 'Verification failed for *ta*mee.nu>\nNo such person at this address"\nSender verify failed')}

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Just tried again. Page now loads ok, but three posts made today (the only ones I've done so far this month) are gone. They also don't appear in the EDIT->Posts list.
The count next to the June 2009 archive link still shows "3".

Posted by: Old Grouch at Thursday, June 04 2009 07:03 AM (iohd7)

3 Additional silliness at doubleplusundead (see comments).

Posted by: Old Grouch at Thursday, June 04 2009 09:32 AM (iohd7)

4 Sorry!  Everything should be back now.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Thursday, June 04 2009 10:08 AM (PiXy!)

5 We had corruption on an index on the posts table.

I don't know why, but it's happened twice recently.  We're moving to a new server this weekend, and when I do that I'll do a full database rebuild to remove any potential issues.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Thursday, June 04 2009 10:11 AM (PiXy!)

6 That index isn't hosted in Chicago, by any chance? (Because that'd explain the corruption... hah-hah!)

Hey, I'm not gonna complain about free ice cream, even if it IS occasionally squash flavor.  The only reason I didn't sit quiet was the "recipient refused" part of the error message.

Thanks, as usual.

Posted by: Old Grouch at Friday, June 05 2009 12:41 AM (nk1QN)

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