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Holy freaking awesome! Thank you for the help.

I'd watch it.

Hello, So I have been running Backtrack 5 R3 in Oracle for a littlebit now and have not been able to get seamless mode to work, which is annoying. Then I tried running BT in vmware player and was able to at least change the screen resolution so that it fit the entire screen. But in Oracle I have not screen resolution settings, has anyone else had this problem? Anyone have any fixes?

So I think I understand the concept of jasager, but why would an excess of packets be indicative of one?

The ship just listened to the sound. Once they heard it they guessed it was the fan based on the fan. Their assumption was that putting pressure on the keyboard (or overtightened screws) was the problem. I also carry my laptop in a bag with me everywhere, so maybe the pressure from being in between books and my back ( I do use a computer bag) is causing a similar issue. They said to run Prime95 and try and see if the computer will still run after like three minutes. Have yet to do this. Also, they didn't take the computer apart. So I just tried another experiment with plugging in a USB device and running a little portable fan behind my computer to see if maybe an overheating issue was screwing with the connection. It ran fine for a bit, and then my computer just randomly decided to tell me that it doesn't recognize the USB device. Generally when the above happens, plugging my device back in doesn't make it recognized. But with the fan blowing on the back it does recognize it again (although it just told me after I plugged it back in that it does not recognize the device anymore). Peculiar.

The ship just listened to the sound. Once they heard it they guessed it was the fan based on the fan. Their assumption was that putting pressure on the keyboard (or overtightened screws) was the problem. I also carry my laptop in a bag with me everywhere, so maybe the pressure from being in between books and my back ( I do use a computer bag) is causing a similar issue. They said to run Prime95 and try and see if the computer will still run after like three minutes. Have yet to do this. Also, they didn't take the computer apart. So I just tried another experiment with plugging in a USB device and running a little portable fan behind my computer to see if maybe an overheating issue was screwing with the connection. It ran fine for a bit, and then my computer just randomly decided to tell me that it doesn't recognize the USB device. Generally when the above happens, plugging my device back in doesn't make it recognized. But with the fan blowing on the back it does recognize it again (although it just told me after I plugged it back in that it does not recognize the device anymore). Peculiar.

Okay. So I brought my computer into a repair shop and they said the sound was something wrong with the fan. If this is the case could it be related to my USB devices failing?

Thanks digip for the tips. So I tried taking the HDD out and running just with a Live USB... did not fix the problem. Ran fine for a minute and then my computer made a crackling sound of doom and then I couldn't run any commands and just had I/O errors when I tried (this is why I have had to hard power off). Then I got all gung-ho and tore the computer apart only to realize that once I actually got down to the mother board I had no idea what I was looking at. So I reassembled it and I am still getting the same issue (I was hoping that taking the computer apart would magically fix it). I would assume that the problem has something to do with the connections between my MB and the USB hubs, but I wouldn't know how to fix that. The computer will do one of two things, it either doesn't recognize the USB drives or it makes the death sound and then all devices fail and I have to do some weird combination of restarting the computer and plugging in the USB device at the correct time (or after a while they will just work). Or, once in a while, there wont be any problem with the devices at all. More input would be awesome. I am ready to accept the fact that I may have to buy new parts or take it to a shop, but I would rather try and exhaust all of the possibilities first. I also want to get an idea of what cause this so it doesn't happen in the future when I get my computer, or with any other computer. Any more advice anyone?

Is that an Aspire 1410? Have you had any troubles with it? Mine gives me tons of crap.

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Hello, I am new here, but I have been watching the show for a little while now. I posted this question in backtrack's forum as well but decided I would post here too because no one got back to me and I am out on my wits about this problem. As an update, I just got a external wifi, and even it fails when I run a VM and try to use it. So there is that. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The title only describes what generally happens, there are other things happening that I can't quite understand. I'll start off with my system specs; I am running an Acer Aspire 1410 netbook, 2GB of ram, 130 GB HD, 3 USB 2.0 ports and I think that is all that might be relevant to my system. It normally runs Windows 7 on it and I have been live booting from a USB to run BT5R3. I use a 16GB Scandisk to boot (and have been using Katana on a PNY 16gig to boot to Backtrack 4 recently). Initially I was encountering a problem where Backtrack wouldn't shut down properly, and so I would have to do a forced shutdown. After this Backtrack wouldn't boot properly. So I have formatted the USB a few times and reinstalled, but kept getting faced with the same problem. After a while I started getting general USB failure. Even in Windows 7 I would have a problem with the USBs, they aren't recognized and nothing I seem to do makes them recognized. This problem in Windows 7 isn't just with the BT USB either, once it is not recognizing one USB it wont recognize them across the board, any other device like my External HDD. After a some strange mixture of reboots, or something else that I can't really explain I can finally get my computer to recognize the devices. So this inability to recognize devices is just one part of the problems. I am also getting strange crackling noises coming out of my computer when I have a device in, in Windows and running a BT distro. Since BT5 hasn't been working I have been using Katana and booting BT4 from there because even after a crash it will run again. So in BT4 it will run fine for a while, and then after a bit I will start hearing crackling noises and this generally means my S is F'd. Once the noises kick in BT will start "eating" programs. The programs I am running will still run okay, but anything else I try to run will fail. When I try running certain commands I generally get I/O errors, I can't run Halt for example (which makes shutting down suck). After forced shutdown I can usually run BT4 again with no problems on booting, but all my problems just start over again. So I feel like this explains pretty much most of the problems I have been having. If you need more info please ask, I was trying to be thorough but this is my first time posting on technical forms like this so I can't be 100% sure. It should probably also be mentioned that I run into similar problems even when I run an Ubuntu live USB too. I have searched the FAQ, wiki, forum, and even the internet but to no avail. So this is kinda my last resort (just in case you were thinking I haven't tried to find other solutions). Thanks for your help!