i removed my GTX660TI, now i cant play any game! i5-4570k

[Tiger98]

my GPU had a failure so while i return the GPU i want to use the PC but when i start a game lets say COD: black ops it pops up a message saying <directx se ha encontrado con un error irreversible> yeah its on spanish sorry for that but it basically says that directX had an error, doesnt say any more. already updated steam and directX but message still shows up

 

[Tiger98]

honestly Tiger, you're right that everyone was a noob at one point, but most of us who made it this far didn't get here by going around and throwing our noobiness (I don't care it's not a word) into other people's laps and asking them to fix it. like others have said, you learn by researching yourself. all the good IT pros made it that way. read threads and articles on Tom's, then search around the web, maxium PC, Anandtech, techpowerup, etc etc, there are many good resources out there, all easily found through the power of google.

after reading, if you really don't understand something, or just want to double check on your understanding, that's what the forums are for: for clearing things up.

said that because in my past thread he insisted in the same thing so i got mad. sorry if i threw my noobiness (lol i like that word) computers are so interesting thats so true and i started getting interested because when i was little i liked to take out parts in every electronic there was and see how it worked. im reading this book called "how electronic things work and what to do when they dont" and i guess i can learn something from there too (not specifically from PC's) but ill do that, ill keep going like a bagabond through this posts. i always look everything up on google as for i believe that everything i wonder for something has already been asked by someone else... if not or if its something different then yes i ask. i seriously didnt expect to be the MOBO software the one to be reinstalled and i feel kinda dumb posting something and solving it myself well i guess i wouldnt got to the conclussion if i didnt go through all the things that ppl suggested me here. thanks for the tip. (BTW holy crap i cant believe a processor does what it does billions of times in a sec

 

[Master-flaw]

Truth is, your the one that solved the problem...just a little trial and error.
Just, work on your presentation a little...lol.

 

[vmem]

I said that because in my past thread he insisted in the same thing so i got mad. sorry if i threw my noobiness (lol i like that word) computers are so interesting thats so true and i started getting interested because when i was little i liked to take out parts in every electronic there was and see how it worked. im reading this book called "how electronic things work and what to do when they dont" and i guess i can learn something from there too (not specifically from PC's) but ill do that, ill keep going like a bagabond through this posts. i always look everything up on google as for i believe that everything i wonder for something has already been asked by someone else... if not or if its something different then yes i ask. i seriously didnt expect to be the MOBO software the one to be reinstalled and i feel kinda dumb posting something and solving it myself well i guess i wouldnt got to the conclussion if i didnt go through all the things that ppl suggested me here. thanks for the tip. (BTW holy crap i cant believe a processor does what it does billions of times in a sec

Yeah, electronics as a whole is pretty amazing.

Anyway, I don't mean what I said in any negative way, and we all have a lot to learn here (it's why I read threads like these). and it's not too uncommon to see people solving their own problems. I mean at the end of the day, we're just a bunch of 'experts' throwing ideas at the wall (or you), and see what sticks 😛.

worst I've experienced is solving my own problem while typing out my question XD

 

[Tom Tancredi]

....we're just a bunch of 'experts' throwing ideas at the wall (or you), and see what sticks 😛.

Actually, once you learn the 'logic' of our steps you will see this statement is not true what so ever. IT Technical people are logical in a process, the most likely to the least likely 'determining the problem'. Way to often we get such overly generalized statements like "the internet doesn't work" when in actually the user just forgot their email password, two VERY different things. But with the way many user get defensive, that they could not in any way done anything wrong or can't believe it possibly could be XYZ is the problem (sound familiar) it become worse then 'pulling teeth' with a user to get to the heart of the problem, but we rely on honesty and a calm set of answers to help us figure out the user's problems.

I can't count the endless times I been flat looked in the eye lied to by someone about thier computer issue they have no clue about computers, come to me to solve, yet seemingly no idea what I am talking about when I point out a very simple common mistake, and be told absolutely did not happen. Yet the computer can tell me otherwise just by the fact IT CAN'T DECIDE to just 'not work' or do the things WE KNOW NOT to do, it only does what a user says a million to billion times faster, and often a million / billion times worse a mistake then the human can make.

We don't 'poke in the dark' or throw things till something sticks, there is a very real sense of what is the most likely common often problem and solution, but we can't tell you that answer right off because we don't know right off IF that is the actual problem (Back to Internet doesn't work VS Mail password reset).

 

[Tiger98]

Just, work on your presentation a little...lol.

^ *facepalm* ik, im bad at that.

 

[vmem]

....we're just a bunch of 'experts' throwing ideas at the wall (or you), and see what sticks 😛.

Actually, once you learn the 'logic' of our steps you will see this statement is not true what so ever. IT Technical people are logical in a process, the most likely to the least likely 'determining the problem'. Way to often we get such overly generalized statements like "the internet doesn't work" when in actually the user just forgot their email password, two VERY different things. But with the way many user get defensive, that they could not in any way done anything wrong or can't believe it possibly could be XYZ is the problem (sound familiar) it become worse then 'pulling teeth' with a user to get to the heart of the problem, but we rely on honesty and a calm set of answers to help us figure out the user's problems.

I can't count the endless times I been flat looked in the eye lied to by someone about thier computer issue they have no clue about computers, come to me to solve, yet seemingly no idea what I am talking about when I point out a very simple common mistake, and be told absolutely did not happen. Yet the computer can tell me otherwise just by the fact IT CAN'T DECIDE to just 'not work' or do the things WE KNOW NOT to do, it only does what a user says a million to billion times faster, and often a million / billion times worse a mistake then the human can make.

We don't 'poke in the dark' or throw things till something sticks, there is a very real sense of what is the most likely common often problem and solution, but we can't tell you that answer right off because we don't know right off IF that is the actual problem (Back to Internet doesn't work VS Mail password reset).

oh I agree that we're logical people and when given 'full disclosure' of information, it is very much a rational and logical troubleshooting process. but as you said it yourself, all too often we're not given the information we need, be it through lack of knowledge of the person asking or blatant lies (no clue why).

also, I described the way trouble shooting tends to work on Tom's. where due to the nature of these forums there is an even more severe lack of information. you see too many threads where someone asks a generic question without giving any additional info about their machine or what software they have, and while people ask for more info, it won't stop other people from just throwing test ideas at it... and slowly the picture does become clearer. of course it works differently in a situation when you can either remote in or have direct access to the PC in question.

again, I meant that comment as a slightly more comical way of describing the situation and I'm not saying there's a lack of knowledge of professionalism on either your or anyone else's part. however, I'm sure if you just look around there are definitely 'experts' throwing ideas into the dark on this site.