Win 7 Pop up issues

Hi...Windows 7 just started acting funny after installing a power supply. I know right....I figured maybe one of the daisy linked power cords for HD could be the problem(light on hd was on but diff from before...not as bright sometimes...seen this before...bad
connection). Reason for this assumption was when I turned unit on....ran fine for about 26 hours, then friend came over and he just bought a external HD that powered with a usb cable...he wanted to try it out on my unit to make sure it would work with
what he wanted to do...so basically I was showing him how to do it. So everything goes fine and went through the things he needed to know(basic stuff)Changed screen to TV(I have 2 cpus hooked to tv...1 is media and other is for work/fun ect.) so when I switched
back to cpu...so I could safely remove external hd....the screen said(in old dos context) reboot with media device....hit enter cause I thought the cpu rebooted and said the same thing...so next I shut down and restarted....it said the same thing...so at this
point I thought I lost my os...like I had no hard drive. I opened unit up and chked cables...re seated them...thinking maybe the connection..now it comes up with normal mode or repair(repair was recommended) so when it was repairing I saw it was deleting somethings
as it repaired and I mean it deleted like 50-100 things and I was getting nervous cause I haven't backed unit up for sometime(1 year) went through that and restarted and it wanted to repair again... it went through but still same prob. So that's
when I thought maybe it was a connection prob since I notice the hd was even sounding funny...most wouldn't notice it but I use to work on compuers(set up many school districts and offices for about 15 years then got out of it in 2006....I don't consider myself
an expert by far) So I connected hd to the first female jack coming out of PS and ran a lot better...started up fine after it repaired again at start up. Now the problems begin....
1st problem...I ran the windows troubleshooter tool ... it says it fixed somethings but didn't fix the missing files or corrupt ones.......I can't even restore to a point...it took those as well
2nd prob I got solved......windows won't update....cant remember all it said....but I did get that fixed by stopping WUAUSERV then putting the old software distribution and re starting WUAUSERV...so that's good....updating like it's suppose too.
3rd prob.......This is crazy....everytime I click something a window pops then disappears...does it on everything...sometimes it's like 1-3 pop ups on one click...real fast they pop and go away ....the pop up windows say "windows is preparing
to install" it's weird that it does it on everything I click on and in Internet explorer when I click on the tab next to the site tab that your on(new tab) it opens to a blank page....it usually opens to my homepage like when I first open IE........
4th prob...........which I think this one im going to have to figure out myself....I have a "High Definition Audio Controller" that keeps trying to install drivers to everytime I start cpu....no new devices...so im puzzled unless that has to do
with the missing files in 1st prob I'm having. Ive tried updating driver and of course it can't update do to the fact it doesn't know what it is...ive uninstalled it and of course it comes back but can not update it......just going to have to start unplugging
devices till I find it...I know its location "PCI bus 3, device 0, function 1" but I have no clue where that's at...so like I said trial and error I guess
I hope there is a program or a site or a way that I can get those file that deal with windows 7 back or that I can restore my files without losing my stuff...I would hate to back those things up and re-install windows 7....
back in the day when I had my shop...I loved win98....you could chk each file to see if it was changed recently and fix it or go back to the previous file by picking the date you wanted to....it took sometime but at least you prevailed.....but that
was only because I dealt with it on a daily basis....so I hope someone is out there that knows win7 and has some tricks up he/she sleeve.
Thank You for your time and any help is appreciated
Sincerely.
John

Ok....Got "Problem 2 and 4" solved....still trying to figure out this pop up everytime I click something...it's crazy how fast the pop up blinks...maybe once or 3 blinks then nothing till you close the window, then pop up then disappears...then click something
else and pop up then gone....never seen this before...ive seen it when you tried to get online which turned out to be a virus on a customers cpu I worked on some years ago, I think it has something to do with the deleted files that I spoke of on last
post...I notice it does it on start up as well.....think something is trying to install but not sure. Need to figure out where the appdata or start up folder and see whats in there....maybe it's in there.......so I might wait to see how it acts in the next
couple days for "Problem 1"...but other than that it's running like a champ...so right now I just want to get the pop up windows to stop........thx again for everyone's help on this.
John

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pcm.!default {
type plug
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I tried everything I could think of for hours (including disabling driver signing security, stopping anti-virus software, trolling through the windows/ inf, System32 and System dirctories to weed out anything ATI - you name it) then miraculously found the old drivers for the HD 2600. Installed them with no probem at all - everything worked just as it should!
So, I looks to me like the XP drivers on the web are now garbage. Anyone else have similar problems or know of a workaround?
I'm not exactly rich so can't afford Win 7 or the dreaded Win 8 (which I loath) or a new PC, which is why i'm soldering on with this dinosaur!
The only thing I haven't done is splat Windows and do a clean install, do you think that'll help? If so why did the old radeon drivers work (win has been cleanly re-installed many a time since I last used that card, so there was no legacy junk lurcking in the windows diectory or it's registry)
Do you think I'd have better luck with NVidia? If so could you kindly recommend an alternative from them? I know an R7770 is a bit OTT for such an old system, but they are dirt cheap at the mo and not much more expensive than much less powerful cards.
Anyone have any thoughts about UBuntu? If it is a driver issue or there is no workaround, I may need to consider this route. Trouble is none of my legacy games will run on Linux and i'm not sure virtualization is available for my mboard.
Anyways, thanks for your time and for any suggestions you might make
Regards
Mike

Hi Flex, thanks for the quick reply and for the advice.
In the end i got it going by changing the boot.ini settings.
They were initially set with the /3GB /fastdetect switch to force the WinXp kernal to run in 1GB, and not take up 2GB as is it's default.
It was set that way to stop a 32bit game (KSP) crashing every 10 minutes or so, through lack of addressable memory.
All I did was simply set the boot.ini back to its default and directx sprung to life. I reset it back to 3GB to make sure it wasn't a fluke and as soon as I did, it killed directx again.
Maybe its a driver issue afterall - probably lack of proper XP support by AMD (This dosen't happen with the old- - 2008 vintage - version 4 ATI radeon drivers.) or perhaps its because the card has twice the memory over my old cards and therefore needs to access a higher portion of I/O allocation than is available in 32bit WinXP.
Its all a bit ironic really as i'm finding the R7770 runs like crap under dirx9 - i'm getting about 30% the frame rate of my old Nvida 8800GT and, as I can't use the 3GB switch anymore, it crashes every 5 mins or whenever I play any resource intensive game.
As the crashes are caused by lack of available address spaces under 32 bit systems, I've bitten the bullet and got 64bit Ubuntu. Got this working in the wee small hours last night - including the R7770 using the AMD catalyst drivers for Linux. Hopefully that will sort things out (and gimmie an excuse to learn a proper OS!)
Wish me luck i can see another "steep learning curve" on the horizon!
Cheers
Mike

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Cerebral wrote:On another note, whenever I pull up the minimap the game goes insanely laggy (whereas it doesn't in Win). I've got a good card, but it's ATI and I've heard the drivers kinda blow. Nothing I can't work around, but if someone else had this issue and has cleared it up, help would be appreciated on that too.
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