Wow, it’s been so long since I blogged about anything related to Flash. Anyhow, while working on our game, we came across a problem where we needed to add effects to dynamic text. Those who’ve tried this know that it can be a real pain. Flash doesn’t have proper tools to allow that.

I’ve seen that it’s better to record a video of how things are done in tutorials, because people can follow things easily. Thus, I’ve prepared a video rather than writing long boring paras.

Enjoy and I’m sure this will help people who need it.

Hey everyone,

Many of you might come to this thread looking for a no video PS3 solution and perhaps 80% of your issues/solutions are written in this blog post. However, this post is about a unique problem with the Playstation 3. It could happen for one reason or the other but here’s what happens in the end:

You can hear audio from your PS3, but no matter what you do, you can’t get video. You’ve tried all the tricks on the net but you never get video and you’re sure that your GPU is fine and hasn’t YLOD’ed.

Well, the solution is to get an HDMI-> DVI cable (Dual Link) and hook it up to a monitor that is completely HDCP compatible and can display 480p or 720p and 1080p. That is absolutely necessary and if a monitor is not fully HDCP compatible, this won’t work.

Once you hook it up, reset your PS3′s display settings, which I guess you know how to. Once you’re done with that, you should see you PS3 display on your monitor screen, Voila?

Why does this happen?:

Well, I dunno specifically why this happens but it happened to me because of a power surge while connecting my PS3 to the wall power socket. I heard a small blow and then there was no display.

What’s the logic? How come the PS3 shows display now?

Hmm, that’s a tricky one but I figured that the PS3 has an onboard chip which does all the video scaling called the Super Companion Chip or SCC. This chip is probably the reason why the display has gone bad and you don’t see a display. The PS3 can display quite a lot of different analog and digital video outputs and perhaps in one of these output modes (digital, I presume), the PS3 skips this chip and you get a display. It’s because of HDCP encryption or colorspace, I can’t say. But here’s a clue that supports my theory:

Image Courtesy: (http://www.edepot.com/playstation3.html#PS3_Video)

I have yet to figure out how to force the PS3 HDMI port to display in RGB mode without using an HDMI-DVI cable. If there were a way to check which mode the HDMI port display is in i.e. YCbCr or RGB, perhaps that could solve it.

For Audio, you can use the regular PS3 Composite cable and hook the audio out somewhere. You may also use the PS3 Optical Out to get audio.

Anyhow, if this post helped you, please let me know. I have spent a lot of time researching this and I would like to fix this in a better way.

I have been messing around with my new Sandy Setup and this is one of the pesky issues that have annoyed me recently. I googled this and found that there’s a heap of users complaining about it on the internet. ASUS, ASRock, Gigabyte etc are all affected by it. This probably means that it has something to do with the chipset and not the board manufacturer. This is not an Overclocking tutorial, this is a fix only.

If you’ve reached this post then you already know what the issue is but if you don’t, well, here’s some detail on it.

P67 Motherboards tend to Double Boot on every cold start once you mess around with the Overclock settings. This could be any settings, as far as I’ve seen. If you change the CPU OC profiles or the DRAM OC profiles. One of them will cause the double boot to occur. Some people are a bit unlucky to have triple boots and it is definitely annoying as hell.

Now, I won’t go into details of what solutions others have provided for this problem. But I found that, it happens when my CPU BCLK is nudged over “100“. This is caused by using ASUS’s AI Suite II‘s built in Overclock Tuner or an Overclock profile. For my case, it was always nudged to “103“.

The DRAM frequency is also affected by the BCLK and you’ll see strange numbers as “1648” instead of “1600” or “1800” in the Bios profile. This is exactly what causes the Double and Triple boots. Well, at least for me.

Here’s teh solution that I’ve tried 3-4 times after messing around with the settings again and again and it works. Before you start, here’s a couple of things, you might wanna take note of.

• If your system is Overclocked and is stable, notice all the settings in the bios. If you’ve used an overclocking suite, like the one provided by ASUS, then you should note what settings it made in the bios. DRAM timings, CPU settings, Voltage etc.
• Upgrade your bios if you haven’t already. Should get this out of the way as well.

Let’s move on to the real deal:

1. Go into your bios and load optimized defaults. This should reset the system to factory defaults.
   
   
2. Save and reset system and then shutdown the system.
3. Now reset your CMOS. You’ll need to consult your Motherboard’s Manual for that. Mine was at the back panel (ASUS).
4. Once you’re done with that, start up your system and go into your bios.
5. Find settings for “Onboard Devices” and look for “JMicron and Marvell” etc. You should see they have options under them called “Display OPROM” or “Display OptionROM in Boot“. Just disable those. All of them. You don’t need them for now.
   
   
6. Move on to your CPU Overclock page and start entering values for overclocking. DO NOT CHANGE ANY OPTION FOR DRAM RIGHT NOW.
7. While you’re entering OC settings, Make sure you never change the BCLK, Keep it “100″. That’ the gist of it.
8. The Turbo or CPU Multiplier should be 45-50, depending on what processor you use and how much your system can Overclock.
9. Once you’ve completely entered all of the Overclock settings. Save settings in bios and reset.

If your system is running fine, test your Overclocks. You can then return to the bios and change your DRAM profile. Notice that it should be a square number now. 1600, 1800, 2000, 2100 etc. Pick whatever you feel is suitable for you RAM. Enter the RAM timings, voltage etc and save settings in the bios.

Shutdown or restart the system and you shouldn’t have any more double or triple boots. Let me know if this works for you people or not as well.