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| Posted: Saturday, February 22, 2014 at
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My Win7 Pro64 started a week ago or so to Lose Focus periodically. This happens both in the TW08 game AND in other programs. In TW08 I just had a game where "back to the desktop" happened 13x over 7 holes. I don't need to be touching the mouse or keyboard at all. In the game I haven't been able to tell if this is triggered by anything specific, or just what the time period is between events. Maybe every 2 minutes? The other thing that tells me it isn't just the game is that it ALSO happens when I'm just typing, as it just did on the word 'time'. Maybe after 2 minutes? Suddenly the box will give out an alert beep instead of registering the typed character. Like t-i-BEEP-(click)-m-e to be done with 'time'. I need to click back into the white space to type again. This is called Losing Focus. I'm pretty careful about allowing anything questionable onto my box, so the only current suspects are the latest MS W7 'updates' from the last few days conflicting with something that was running smoothly before.
I only ask here just in case someone else has tracked down a solution to a like problem. |
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| Posted: Sunday, February 23, 2014 at
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Hello,
Not sure if this will help or not but you could check the connection on your graphic card that goes to your monitor and the monitor connection. Another thing to check is to see if your graphic card is still seated good. You will have to open your computer to do this. Also check and see if your graphic card driver is up to date.
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| Posted: Sunday, February 23, 2014 at
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It is also possibble your graphics card got overheated.
Most common reason for heating problems is dust, maybe you have to clean your system.
Warning: don t use a vacuum cleaner to clean your sustem inside, the static electricity on a vacuum cleaner can destroy your system. |
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| Posted: Sunday, February 23, 2014 at
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| Alert beeps from the PC, almost sure is signaling or warning of a hardware fault ,? Check power surply as well for cleaning. |
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| Posted: Sunday, February 23, 2014 at
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Thanks for the replies and suggestions. I hadn't really suspected hardware. According to my Speccy program the Radeon is running at 97°F and I can tell you the whole box interior was thoroughly cleaned about a year ago in 13, and I only built this box in 9/12. But the GPU wasn't new then, just transferred from my last. When just typing this I got the burp and looked at my Sound CP to see what Win calls the burp sound. "Default beep", so that doesn't help. As for the GPU or my 530W PS getting unseated or otherwise disconnected I would expect much more serious problems. But maybe I'll open the box soon to check it out. I want to do that anyway for another home theater HDMI reason but I need to get a helper here for that. Here's what Speccy says about my GPU, I'll also try attaching the whole extensive Speccy output text:
ATI Radeon HD 5570
Manufacturer ATI
Model Radeon HD 5570
GPU Redwood
Device ID 1002-68D9
Subvendor Sapphire/PCPartner (174B)
Current Performance Level Level 0
Voltage 0.900 V
Die Size 104 mm²
Release Date Feb 9, 2010
DirectX Support 11.0
DirectX Shader Model 5.0
OpenGL Support 4.1
GPU Clock 650.0 MHz
Temperature 97 °F
Core Voltage 0.900 V
Bios Core Clock 650.00
Bios Mem Clock 800.00
Driver version 8.982.0.0
BIOS Version 113-BA3E142310SA-001
ROPs 8
Shaders 400 unified
Memory Type DDR3
Memory 1024 MB
Bus Width 64x2 (128 bit)
Pixel Fillrate 5.2 GPixels/s
Bandwidth 25.6 GB/s
Noise Level Quiet
Max Power Draw 42 Watts
Count of performance levels : 3
Level 1
GPU Clock 157 MHz
Memory Clock 200 MHz
Level 2
GPU Clock 500 MHz
Memory Clock 800 MHz
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GPU Clock 650 MHz
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| Posted: Sunday, February 23, 2014 at
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Google keyboard beeps when typing
you'll find many references to some windows settings that may be the issue, or one of the issues |
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| Thanks, I've looked at this stuff before. I don't have Toggle or Sticky happening. Logitech tech had me pull and re-plug the USB, no use. But this has me thinking to try another tack. Unplug this USB and use my old PS2 kb, see if that makes it go away. But I do like this illuminated kb... :( |
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| Posted: Sunday, February 23, 2014 at
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| nope, changing keyboards didn't help. also, playing a solo offline game doesn't help. |
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| Posted: Monday, February 24, 2014 at
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| well gents, i ordered a new graphics card, needed a replacement for the 2010 vintage card anyway, and will do a thorough cleaning when installing it. i also have a new 200mm system fan to install at the same time. somehow i doubt it's the hardware though. if it doesn't fix i'll restore my system backup from November. |
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| Posted: Monday, February 24, 2014 at
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| p.s. it seems i didn't mention "losing focus" just scrolling in a browser, no beeping. the game doesn't beep either. it's only typing that gets beeps. |
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| Posted: Monday, February 24, 2014 at
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| edited by: argon on
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| "p.s. it seems i didnt mention losing focus just scrolling in a browser, no beeping. the game doesnt beep either. its only typing that gets beeps." |
take a look here
www.thewindowsclub.com/disable-system-beep-windows-7-8
Also i found this , open your system tray theres a clock icon for some thing called filter keys its similar to sticky keys and is activated buy holding the shift key for 8 seconds, the post said no more ? Can you disable it there |
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| Posted: Tuesday, February 25, 2014 at
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Thanks, bookmarked now, but I'm not so concerned with the beep sound, it's the underlying problem of losing focus. It's annoying when typing text (beeps then) or when scolling a window (no beep). But it's beyond annoying when playing TW with others who are waiting for your shot (or you to view theirs) to be able to move along in the game. Going back and forth to the desktop just about every hole is ridiculous. Btw, on my tray under the time and date there seems to be nothing relevant.
This symptom started after the latest Microsoft Win7 "updates" earlier this month, too many to narrow down a culprit. AND on Feb 14th I installed AVG 2014 Free. I'm uninstalling it now. Not necessarily causative but maybe more than coincidental. |
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| Posted: Wednesday, February 26, 2014 at
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| edited by: TranzMembrifi on
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YES, AVG, it seems. After uninstalling it the focus problem is gone in text and browsers, and I played a 9 hole game with only ONE back to desktop event instead of 1+ per hole. AVG Free was the only new install I did in the last couple of weeks that was running ALL the time. I should have guessed. It turns out this is an old and known problem.
https://www.google.com/search?q=avg+focus+site:forums.avg.com
And btw the link in there starting with [SOLVED] was a different problem for that one person with some other exe I dont have. |
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| Posted: Wednesday, February 26, 2014 at
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Good news you found the problem Tranz.
Thanks for posting the solution, maybe it will help other members. |
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| Posted: Thursday, February 27, 2014 at
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| I use microsoft security essentials, its free and never had a problem.. |
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| Posted: Friday, February 28, 2014 at
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| edited by: argon on
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"YES, AVG, it seems. After uninstalling it the focus problem is gone in text and browsers, and I played a 9 hole game with only ONE back to desktop event instead of 1+ per hole. AVG Free was the only new install I did in the last couple of weeks that was running ALL the time. I should have guessed. It turns out this is an old and known problem.
https://www.google.com/search?q=avg+focus+site:forums.avg.com
And btw the link in there starting with [SOLVED] was a different problem for that one person with some other exe I dont have." |
Good to here Tranz , but i run AVG Pro and Malware bytes Pro, seem to have no probs.
Mind you forgot my self there , i`am not running Win 7 -#64 |
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