Figure I can spare a little to send your way, WR, seeing as with your PCs & such you've had your share of bad lately. :)
Donating a bit of luck to Whiterabbit
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Whiterabbit-uk
Games GuruI purchased a new SSD for my main computer and now have that up and running, though I did get problems with the graphics this morning; I though I may have damaged my graphics cards somehow, but not through overheating as the computer runs very cool with 15 fans keeping the air moving through the system. I've never had a case that stays cold, even after playing a high end game. I was getting some very weird graphic issues that were similar to thosae I got when I destroyed two decent cards a few years ago through poor maintainance (I neglected to clean the dust from the cooling fans on the cards), which ended up being so choked with dust that the fans jammed ; subsequently the chips were fried.
Restarting several times and making sure all the cables were tight seemed to cure the problem; however, I've not turned the computer off since, so am worried it will happen again. The computer still booted up but with a resolution of 600x460, with a limited color pallete, plus when in bios, you couldn't see any of the information that usually shows, instead it was just lots of white lines.
Now it's my old main computer thats having a problem. I though I'd tracked the to a failing HDD, but I now suspect that its the MoBo. I've been having problems with it for several months now, such as the audio going if I played videos, but now it's crashing, freezing or not starting up properly. sometimes you turn it on and it doesn't even boot up through bios and when it does it keeps restarting. Occassionally it does restart properly, but recently thats becomea rarity.
The secondary computer is a dual boot with the other operating system (Vista) on a HDD that has been little used, yet that also crashes/freezes in exactly the same way as my Win 7 disc, which is why I now think its the MoBo. (I'd not bothered testing the Vista system until now simply because I've never really liked it.
Unfortunately it's the only computer that allows me to log into my game giveawayoftheday admin account; which means I can't moderate at the moment. For some reason, none of my other computers will let me log in. Can't figure that one?
I've just purchased a new motherboard this afternoon and expect to receive it sometime this coming week. It was for an older AM2 dual core processor so wasn't too expensive thankfully. The only downside is that the MoBo only has four USB sockets at the back of the board and two onboard sockets. The MoBo that's failing has a total of 8. That said the new board has three PCI sockets so I'll be able to put a USB expansion or two in it. I only need one PCI socket for the audio card. The other downside is that there's only one PCI-e socket for the graphics cards so I won't be able to upgrade to a SLI set up. Still, it's only a back-up.
It still plays all of my games even the latest ones though some have to be played with less than maximum settings. It's only got a NVIDIA GTX 275 card with around 865MB of memory, 6GB of system RAM and a dual core 3.2GHz Athlon cpu. I can alsways add a better, more recent 4, 5 or 6 series card. You can pick up a 1GB vRAM card for around £60 now.
There is an Alawar game tomorrow, but still unsure whether I'm going to manage to post my review. It depends on whether i'm lucky enough to restart the computer.
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Anonymous
Unregisteredkeeps restarting, Like Reboot don't do that very bad, # 1 may be no stoping it and end up booting all the time # 2 You can not fix as you will not get a stop # or driver info so turn off and take note of the Blue screen stop note the info and look it up and good luck.
Posted 12 years ago # -
Anonymous
Unregisteredhttp://pcsupport.about.com/od/supports/g/stopcode.htm
http://pcsupport.about.com/od/termsb/g/bsodbluescreen.htm
BSOD (Blue Screen of Death, STOP Error/Message)
Definition: Abbreviated as BSOD or BSoD, the Blue Screen of Death is the popularized name for what is technically called a STOP message or STOP error. It's the blue, full screen error that often displays after a serious system crash.The text on the Blue Screen of Death lists the files involved in the crash including any drivers that may have been at fault and a short, usually cryptic, description of what to do about the problem.
How to fix Restart stop Reboot):-
http://pcsupport.about.com/od/tipstricks/f/automatic-restart.htmPosted 12 years ago # -
mikiem2
ModeratorFWIW, might try re-seating the graphics card(s), or just using one or the other, or swapping in another card just for a test -- might also try one of your graphics cards in another PC as a way of testing the card itself. Might try clearing the bios, removing the battery & then clearing the bios with either a jumper or switch, whatever your m/board supplies, then loading the default/optimized settings -- see your m/board manual for specifics... the bios remembers what hardware is where, might have bad info stored in its memory, & clearing that memory, then loading defaults gets rid of that. Might also check, maybe swap the power supply -- it might have taken a hit at the same time as the old SSD from the power interruption. The same could be true actually for your monitor -- the graphics card detects the monitor resolution from the monitor itself, so if the monitor sends the wrong info it may think the lower rez is all it's capable of. If you could read the screen then you enter the bios setup, & if your m/board has on-board graphics, could turn that on & see if it worked.
"... I destroyed two decent cards a few years ago through poor maintainance (I neglected to clean the dust from the cooling fans on the cards), which ended up being so choked with dust that the fans jammed..."
I want to add a quick note for everyone, though it has nothing to do with your present problems... I've heard that when you clean graphics card fan(s) you should be careful blowing them out with canned/compressed air -- electric motors can act as generators, producing electricity if they're spun, & the current from rapidly spinning fans can allegedly damage a graphics card's electronics. I've no idea the likelihood of this happening, but rather than risk it I always make sure the fan(s) can't turn when using air to blow the dust from graphics cards.
"Now it's my old main computer thats having a problem. I though I'd tracked the to a failing HDD, but I now suspect that its the MoBo. I've been having problems with it for several months now, such as the audio going if I played videos, but now it's crashing, freezing or not starting up properly. sometimes you turn it on and it doesn't even boot up through bios and when it does it keeps restarting. Occassionally it does restart properly, but recently thats becomea rarity. "
*If* it's something you wanted to try playing with, might check the battery -- if the battery is low the bios won't remember all its settings, & be getting things wrong most of the time. I had a defective m/board that ate batteries once a month, & when the battery got low it wouldn't work properly, wouldn't boot until I went into the bios setup & put things right. Might also disconnect everything you can, e.g. use just one stick of ram, trying it in different slots, & pulling any card you can get away with, like your sound card... a bad stick of RAM or a bad card can cause the system not to boot.
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Anonymous
Unregisteredhttp://www.northkoreatech.org/2012/01/08/whats-wrong-with-these-pictures/
factory workers checking or testing laptop computers. But a closer look reveals something odd about the pictures.
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