SKILORD
Insurgent
I wasn't trying to hassle you about it. I understand, I'm not worried about it.
I just want to recruit some more people.
I just want to recruit some more people.
While We Wait: Writer's Block & Other Lame Excuses
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thomas.berubeg
Wandering the World
I wasn't Implying that you were. Looking back at my post, I do see it... But I meant "Dammit" as in, I feel bad for not having joined yet!
North King
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By the way, my computer has died. Will be intermittent until I get it working or get a new one.
Daftpanzer
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In my experience there are two things that kill computers - siblings using them, and visits to pr0n sites (or possibly both things at once). Pr0n viruses being recoverable most of the time. But siblings seem to have special power to burn out motherboard components.
Boundless
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SouthernKing
crickety cricket
From what I have seen, it looks interesting..I might try it out.
Daft, were you speaking in reference to NK, or have you too suffered a gratuitous computer failure?
North King
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It's mostly wear and tear. The actual computer is fine; I think it's that the backlight on the monitor has broken.
Daftpanzer
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Daft, were you speaking in reference to NK, or have you too suffered a gratuitous computer failure?
about NK - my computers are fine, touchwood! And I literally just touched wood. Although my desktop just got saved from malware that was probably pr0n-related. Hmm, better be careful with the phrases I'm juggling here!
Tecknojock
Keeping the world running
I'm having a little bit of computer trouble. I just added a graphics card to my computer and now my overclock is unstable. Everything keeps crashing with 0xc0000005 errors (buffer overflow). Its getting to the point where I think I'm going to have to drop my clock speed because I've just about tried everything else. Funny thing is, my OC was perfectly stable before I added that graphics card.
I'm getting vram artifacts before the crashes, but the card worked wonderfully in the computer I got it from so it might be my OC is crashing the driver.
I'm getting vram artifacts before the crashes, but the card worked wonderfully in the computer I got it from so it might be my OC is crashing the driver.
Speaking of computer issues, my laptop has been acting up lately- it's been experiencing dramatic slowdowns while playing games (Starcraft II and Team Fortress 2), and getting very choppy. I'm vaguely concerned that I might have damaged it somehow, as it was stored last weekend in the same bag that held my cellphone, whose screen is now glitching out. At any rate, I've gone over all my security settings, scanned the computer, erased a bunch of junk files, defragmented the machine and given it a thorough physical cleaning... now I'll just turn it off and give it some time to cool off- I have a bad habit of leaving it on at all hours, and I have found that problems tend to occur after too much time on.
Tecknojock
Keeping the world running
what type of screen is your cell, and glitching out how?
It's a 3 year old Blackberry Curve, and an irregular area covering roughly a quarter of the screen (stretching from the bottom left to upper center) is completely whited out. All but the very top of the screen is obscured by the pixels being whited out on every second row, giving one the impression that they're looking through venetian blinds.
Tecknojock
Keeping the world running
How much ram do you have? Does it take longer to open files? Its possible some mechanical agitation could have damaged the hard disk and that paired with high page file usage would lead to slowdowns.
Listen to your hard drive. Does it sound like its having trouble spinning up? Also look at the SMART statistics and see if you have any bad sectors.
Don't know what to tell you about your cell. My calculator has striping on it and I find that putting pressure/flashing between black and white sometimes unsticks them, but the internet indicates that it might be a ribbon cable problem as well.
Listen to your hard drive. Does it sound like its having trouble spinning up? Also look at the SMART statistics and see if you have any bad sectors.
Don't know what to tell you about your cell. My calculator has striping on it and I find that putting pressure/flashing between black and white sometimes unsticks them, but the internet indicates that it might be a ribbon cable problem as well.
File opening time is the same. The hard drive makes no whining noises, I suspected initially that it was either a RAM or a processor issue. RAM seems unlikely as my computer still reports to have the same amount as ever. It could be a cooling issue causing my processor to operate less than optimally, hence my cleaning out of the air vents and turning off of the computer.
Really, the only problems have been choppy performance while playing games, which while not making them unplayable leaves them unenjoyable.
Really, the only problems have been choppy performance while playing games, which while not making them unplayable leaves them unenjoyable.
Tecknojock
Keeping the world running
Any bluescreens?
nutranurse
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So does anyone here play Corpse Party? Have you gotten the 2nd bad ending of chapter five? Jesus. How can so much go wrong. 
Northen Wolf
Young Hunter
Sounds like you know what you're doing. Did you check msconfig (run -> msconfig) it's also smart idea to keep task manager open and see if any programs suddenly peak memory/whatever usage. I had MSN messenger once using 70% of CPU for few seconds in every couple of minutes and had to reinstall it - that fixed the problem. Same with steam. Also liketecknojock reccommended it's worth to check your HDD with SMART or even the checkdisk utility.
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