Computer Questions Not Worth Their Own Thread II

Are surge protectors that has a plug for LAN on the market these days?
 
Now pops in my next question, what makes an UPS better than a regular surge protector? :ack:
 
CivGeneral said:
Now pops in my next question, what makes an UPS better than a regular surge protector?
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Read the spec numbers. A surge that overwhelms protection inside appliances is typically hundreds of thousands of joules. How many joules will that UPS absorb? How many joules will a power strip absorb? What is the number for protection from each type of surge?
 
Lord Emsworth said:
Is this hyperbole, and do your really mean 1-2 minute to boot and 2-4 for decent speed? Or does it really take that long?
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It really did take that long, but I had it for years and it was infected by so many viruses I lost count.
 
Lord Emsworth said:
Uhh ... I would probably do a clean, fresh install (or restore a known good backup) if I had just one known case of being compromised. :crazyeye:
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This was years ago my computer and laptop now are fine. I didn't know what to do back then as I didn't know a lot about computers but if it happened again I would be able to fix it.
 
CivGeneral said:
Now pops in my next question, what makes an UPS better than a regular surge protector? :ack:
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What a surge suppressor does is it takes the incoming power and tries to smooth out fluctuation in it that might damage your computer. That works pretty good where there's a up spike in the incoming power. But not so good when there is a down spike (brown out, black out) in the incoming power. So your computer can still be crashed and possibly damaged. A UPS draws the power that runs your computer through a battery. So whether the power spikes up or down, the power coming out of the battery remains constant, and that protects your computer better and prevents crashes that can cost you data.
 
Another issue that cropped up. As previously mentioned that I keep getting a computer freeze after a cold boot (Yet after restarting from the freeze it works normally). This time I have gotten some progress on narrowing them down. This time I've gotten some BSoDs (abet the computer freezes during the process of generating a mini dump :(). I think I might have narrowed it down to a finicky PSU, faulty capacitors on the motherboard and/or on the video card (Strangely, I don't get any artifacts that are typical of a failing video card)

I have gotten the following: 0xD1 and 0x1A. Not sure what to make of it since I have not seen a BSoD since XP (As well as unsure if BSoDs are consistent). I've sent this desktop to the Geek Squad twice and they have not found anything and claimed it's a software issue :confused:.
 
This is just a follow up to my previous post above. I've let the computer cool off and cold booted it. This time, I booted from my USB stick (Which I have Memtest86+ in it), Not long after Memtest was running, it reported fail just before the computer shut itself down and restarted. Went back to Memtest and it reported that the sticks passed. Is this a fault of the memory sticks or the memory slots on the motherboard?
 
CivGeneral said:
This is just a follow up to my previous post above. I've let the computer cool off and cold booted it. This time, I booted from my USB stick (Which I have Memtest86+ in it), Not long after Memtest was running, it reported fail just before the computer shut itself down and restarted.
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What happens when doors in a house start binding? Do you replace doors? No. First go downstairs to inspect the foundation.

The foundation for any computer is its power system - more than just a supply. Nobody can provide a useful answer if you do not first provide numbers. That means a multimeter even from Wal-Mart, K-mart, Harbor Freight, or any store that also sells hammers. Measure six wires. Report the numbers. Have an answer without any more doubts. Labor is about a minute - not including the much longer time required to post those numbers.

You have two choices. Either keep replacing good parts until something works. Or get numbers so that the better informed can identify the defect. You had the right idea - Memtst86. But any good part can act defective if a power system has problems.

A computer has a power controller. That decides when the computer can power on, when the CPU can execute, and when the computer must be powered off. Which power system component is defective - if any? Only way to have an answer is to see numbers that the power controller is also monitoring and manipulating.

A power system problem can make any other part look defective - just like a bad house foundation makes doors work defectively. Either replace good parts until something works. Or ask for meter directions to have an answer without doubts. Those are the two choices.
 
My quicklaunch has been the slowest way to launch anything for a damn long time. It takes absurdly long to show me the menu. Now, since I started using Emerge Desktop, the start menu "programs" menu is just as slow.

What could be causing this? How can I fix it?
 
For some reason Media Player Classic is playing everything twice as fast. I don't know what I did. Any suggestions without resetting all the settings?
 
You probably hit a hotkey and increased the playspeed without realizing it. Click the "Play" tab and click on "decrease rate". Or just press ctrl+down arrow
 
Yeah that worked. Thanks. I don't know how it glitched so everything was going doublefast. But I did that and it was fixed.

Another question: Is it just me, or when you login to Gmail, and you go to YouTube, it is logged in? I don't like that. But I logged out of YouTube and Gmail was also logged out.
 
I thought it was bought several years ago. And it was only within the last week or so that it did that.
 
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