media button problem m17x

ok so when you press like volume up or volume down a display is suppose to show up on the screen. Ever since 2 days ago i started noticing that when i press the buttons like wireless button, a display doesnt show up. Any way to fix this?

it also doesnt ask me if i want to turn stealth mode on anymore when i press the stealth mode button

 

Make sure you are on BIOS A02, reinstall the OSD and CommandCenter.

 

ok ill go ahead and try that, will return with results thanks.

 

batboy

it still doesnt work after updating the files provided. i forgot to mention that i cant use any of the fn+ keys.


edit: if this helps, im using windows 7 home premium if thats the problem

edit#2: so when i install the OSD again, it works, but right after i restart my computer eveything goes back to not working again. any solutions?

 

Same thing happens to me if I turn hybrid SLI on (I normally have it off). No idea why.

 

well i have hybrid sli off and it still doesnt show the OSD when i press buttons

 

I have a similar, if not the same, problem. Rather than take the time to troubleshoot, I made a batch file as follows:

@echo off
tasklist /nh /fi "imagename eq osd_main.exe" | grep -i "osd_main.exe" > nul
if errorlevel 1 "C:\Program Files\OSD\Launch.exe"

If you don't have Grep.exe, replace "grep -i" with "find /i". Copy the 3 lines into notepad and save it with a ".bat" or ".cmd" extension to wherever you keep your batch files, etc.

What this does is check the running processes for "osd_main.exe". If it's not running, it executes "Launch.exe". I'm not sure what else is launched, maybe the media touch controls. I suspect there is a conflict during the boot process. I don't know if it has to do with overclocking, or using all 4 processors to boot instead of the default 1, or something else.

I created a shortcut to this batch file in my startup folder. In the shortcut properties (right-click menu), I selected to start window minimized, so it just shows up on the task bar momentarily.

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M17x, Space Black
Q9000 2.0, O/C'd to 2.4
1920x1200 screen res
8 GB RAM, 1066 Mhz
500 GB HDD
Single nVIDIA® GeForce GTX 260M, 1GB

 

Thanks man! it worked! your a big help

 

That's a very good solution. I had this problem with Vista actually, not anymore with Windows 7. What I did back then was make a Task (from Task Scheduler) at login, with highest privileges for OSD_Main.exe.

Now everytime the computer started it would execute the task and have OSD_Main.exe running. You wouldn't notice a thing of the process, and no double click required. Of course, your solution, although needing an extra double-click, is more tech savvy

 

is another solution just to make a shortcut of OSD_Main.exe in the startup folder? thats what i do and now i have no problems

 

Sure, that'll work. I just decided to make sure it wasn't already running first. At one time I was seeing 2 instances of "launch_cc.exe" running in Task Manager. I noticed it was being started from two different locations in the registry. I removed one of them and have only seen one instance since. I didn't know if the same thing would happen with "osd_main.exe". Apparently not. I'm glad it's working for you now!

 

WaR, it doesn't require any clicking at all if you put the shortcut in your Startup folder. Then it runs automatically when Windows starts. Anyway, glad to here it doesn't happen with Win 7. I never found the cause and life's too short to worry about it.

 

I agree.

 

apparently OSD_main.exe just forgets to start at start up for some reason