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posted November 07, 2009 11:27 PM |
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I don't have Vista and don't know how it works, but if you want any sort of satisfactory answer, you'll have to give more details than:Quote:
Looks ok for about 1 second, then it claims there is something wrong and it refuses to start Windows.
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posted November 07, 2009 11:50 PM |
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I don't have Vista and don't know how it works, but if you want any sort of satisfactory answer, you'll have to give more details than:Quote:
Looks ok for about 1 second, then it claims there is something wrong and it refuses to start Windows.
Its windows we are talking about, there is no more information. Unless it logs it to a log file SOMEWHERE, but it don't tell me that it did or where its logged it to.
The next thing is that I can't find a way to figure out how to disable the GUI screen so I at the least get to see what its loading when its getting the error. And yes, I am searching it up on the WWW. Everything refers to the unreachable GUI <.<
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posted November 07, 2009 11:53 PM |
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I think it actually gives more detail than "something is wrong dude, I'll shut down" message pop up. 
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posted November 08, 2009 12:10 AM |
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Actually it does, but the information is invalid.
It goes like this:
1. Windows selected to start up at the bootloader
2. Looks like it usually does
3. Suddely the picture is changed to "Windows Loading" under a progress bar while in a black & white palette
4. The standard "some kind of error has occured in some way" screen apperes. The same one you get if you don't shut down the computer properly.
5. I select the "Start Windows Normally"-option
6. Looks OK again
7. THEN after 4-5 seconds it starts up in simple VGA modus with 16-bit palette with GUI, what apperes is something new to Vista: "Lets fix your computer modus"
8. I get the option between "continue" and "cancel", what the information panel said is that is something about "click continue for Windows to auto-attempt to fix the errors"(no errors given, just that clicking continue will start a auto modus).
9. "Continue" is clicked, and it stays there for 10 minuttes saying that "attempting to fix file system, this might take an hour"
10. Its done, and I click finish
11. It reboots
12. Windows is selected at the bootloader
13. The exact same happpens again
This is what happens......
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posted November 08, 2009 12:16 AM |
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Black & White palette, is that normal? I've only seen that in XP Setup (NT) when loading from txtsetup.sif live (i.e "Windows Setup", not installed...) but there's no way that could happen unless you modified the booting system files -- or rather, some rootkit did it for you. (and perhaps this rootkit wasn't "designed" to work with multi-boot so it screwed up instead of being hidden)
Of course I'm gonna shut up now, I don't know anything about Vista.
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posted November 08, 2009 12:31 AM |
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Don't think its anything related to "booting" and the "bootloader", since all the grub does it to redirect up to Windows bootloader. Which again means that "grub don't exists for Windows", since it got nothing to do with it.
The black & white looks perfectly normal, for the situation. Its the exact same in XP for the most. The difference is that I guess Vista reads more files, and thus never get to hide this.
Now to find the 1337'est register hack of the century <.<.
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posted November 08, 2009 12:54 AM |
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Probably not worth asking but did you try safe mode when in the black & white menu?
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posted November 08, 2009 01:21 AM |
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There is no option for it. I got the option between "rescue" and "normal". Rescue means I go directly to the thingy, normal just means that it goes to the exact place as rescue after a few more seconds.
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posted November 08, 2009 10:33 AM |
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Ah well, maybe you tried this, but tapping one of F2/F8/F10 when rebooting should get you to the option to start in safe mode. Different computers are set up different ways so I can't say for sure which key will get you there.
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posted November 15, 2009 04:55 PM |
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More a question than a problem:
I own a movie from which I'd like to extract a few scenes and convert them to something I can easily play during a powerpoint presentation. Anyone know how I can do that?
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posted November 15, 2009 05:01 PM |
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More a question than a problem:
I own a movie from which I'd like to extract a few scenes and convert them to something I can easily play during a powerpoint presentation. Anyone know how I can do that?
What is it, DVD? Blu-ray or HD-DVD is harder to crack.
There are DVD Decrypters out there. Unfortunately, my favorite got shut down because of a bribed judge by the corrupt movie industry. (yes, that's because other decrypters, even COMMERCIAL ones, are still up and running! how can this be "justice"?).
http://www.dvdhelp.us/dvddecrypter/dvddecrypter.html
or the commercial one (has a free version, not sure how good it is, but it's BLOATED):
http://www.dvdfab.com/free.htm
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posted November 15, 2009 05:04 PM |
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@Death
Sorry, I should have said that I've already decrypted the DVD (w/ DVDFab) and ripped it onto my hard drive. But I don't know how to extract certain scenes from the various .vob and .ifo files and convert them into a file I can easily play on my computer (using, e.g., windows media player). I have the program DVD shrink, which is what I usually use to do my DVD backups.
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posted November 15, 2009 05:09 PM |
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You'll need a demux utility. I'm not very familiar as I've never done it myself, but I have PGC Demux and IfoEdit (the latter can "put them back" if you want). Sorry can't give instructions as I've never used them before. 
If you want an mpeg container, you can use Virtual Dub to combine the video & audio into one. I think avi might also work.
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posted November 15, 2009 05:26 PM |
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Well that's a place to start, thanks!
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posted November 16, 2009 03:40 AM |
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@Death -
I figured out how to do it by scanning the forums at afterdawn.com. See here. It's pretty easy and works really well.
Only catch is that you have to download the DIVX codec for windows media player to play it.
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posted November 16, 2009 06:40 PM |
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That's interesting I had no idea about, but it re-encodes the movie in another codec (not MPEG2, in your example it's DivX).
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posted December 11, 2009 05:24 AM |
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Another video editing question:
I want to make a picture slide-show, set it to music, and turn the whole thing into a .avi file. What's the easiest way to do this?
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posted December 11, 2009 10:00 AM |
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Corribus: That depends on your application.
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posted December 11, 2009 02:16 PM |
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posted December 11, 2009 11:46 PM |
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Slide shows are easily made with Windows Movie Maker, I think you already have that. 
More 'advanced' you can use VirtualDub, but I don't see the point if you really don't care about technicalities IMO.
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