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donavannj said:
Sounds like an issue with the RAM. It seems that it's not clearing the RAM properly or something along those lines. My parents' computer had a similar issue last summer/fall. Somehow, despite not replacing any components, this went away. I think it was because they upgraded from XP to 7, though. Maybe a reinstall is what you need.
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Sounds about right to me, though I would skip the reinstall. You can test the RAM with a simple program called Memtest. Google it for a download. it it doesn't find anything wrong with your RAM, Consider testing your PSU before replacing it.
 
TheAppleFreak said:
Hmm... I'm getting concerned regarding my gaming PC. A few days ago, I downloaded Prism Video Converter to shrink a few massive video files that I had recorded for a school project (one was 7.00 GB!), and as I usually do, I put my computer into sleep mode after I was finished. When I tried waking it up a day later, it apparently had turned off. I was confus at this point, so I tried rebooting and got a Blue Screen. That was odd enough, so I uninstalled Prism.

Last night, the same thing happened again, but this time, when it tried resuming Windows, it brought me to a blank screen with a blinking cursor, and refused to do anything from there. I rebooted the machine, but this time none of the main system components started up. I even removed the side panel to observe what was happening, and every time I powered it on, the front-side fan would spin into life, but the motherboard power indicators didn't light up. Eventually, after unplugging the computer for ten seconds and then retrying it, I was able to get the machine to start successfully.

I fear that I might have a defective PSU. Chances are I'll have to RMA it... that sucks. Especially since Portal 2 is coming out soon, and if my computer dies while it's downloading... my whole week will be ruined (because the day that it comes out, I'm heading to Florida. I also have school that day, so I think that if anything I'll at least try to snag the soundtrack files before I leave). Anyone support or disapprove of this hypothesis?
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First of all, what are the specs of your computer again? Brands and speeds for ram too, please.

Check the event viewer under administrative tools in the control panel. You should be able to find the critical errors list, where the problem will be listed.

I don't know the system, but heat can do that. Instant shut downs and it won't turn back on for a bit, but I'd still lean towards the PSU. After testing the memory with memtest, that is.

VM me if I forget to reply, lol.
 
In Firefox 4, when I mouseover a link, the address is shown in the bottom left corner. How can I make it appear next to my mouse arrow, where it used to be, again?
I already managed to turn off the annoying new tab animation by changing a setting in about:config, but didn't find anything about how to change this other thing that's being a nuisance to me yet.
 
Well, apparently my parents just changed our internet connection from a DSL line to a cable line. I'd be more excited about this if I was able to connect to the internet from my Time Capsule.

EDIT: Well, this royally sucks. I tried power cycling the router as per standard practice dictates, and now, it's absolutely refusing to connect to their cable network. Given as now everything is going through this consolidated device, I no longer have access to the internet or home phone. And worse yet, Time Warner can't have anyone over at our house until Monday, so I'm effectively offline until Monday night, and our whole household is without phone service. And this was supposed to make our home data services better. *rolls eyes*

At least I jailbroke my iPhone beforehand and installed MyWi, so I can tether my computers to it for mobile internet. Goodbye, Steam.

EDIT 2: Apparently it's fickle. Began working again today, and I was able to get full operation again. Speed's far better than before, even over my wireless connection, so I'm happy.
 
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Team Fail said:
Well, I'll revive this place and rant on about an issue I now have. And it is really annoying.

It seems that my computer monitor has suddenly gotten darker. And I haven't touched a single setting or anything, not even a cable. Everything now looks ugly, including some of my favorite programs. What could be causing this?

Also, I plan to partition another part of my drive and install XP on it from my Recovery (D:\) drive. If I can.
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CRT or LCD? I'm not sure if CRT's can go out, but LCDs have lamps that eventually go out, its cheaper and easier just to buy a new monitor.
 
Team Fail said:
It's an LCD, only about 6 years old, but not on continuously.
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Yeah, it sounds like the backlight is dying. I'd personally just buy a new one, because 1. it's expensive to fix and 2. you can get a 22" 1920x1080 screen really cheap these days.

I just installed my new SSD. I'll just leave this here:

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Archer said:
I just installed my new SSD. I'll just leave this here:
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I'm just guessing that the reason it's 7.7 score and not higher is due to the low total amount of free disk space across the system? I would've thought a SSD would score higher due to the increased read/write speed. I'll give you about a week and a half with it before you begin to think that you may never use a spinning boot disk again. XD
btw, which SSD did you get?
 
Gerri Shin said:
I'm just guessing that the reason it's 7.7 score and not higher is due to the low total amount of free disk space across the system? I would've thought a SSD would score higher due to the increased read/write speed. I'll give you about a week and a half with it before you begin to think that you may never use a spinning boot disk again. XD
btw, which SSD did you get?
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It's a Corsair Force F115. Just a Sandforce drive, but 7.7 is about right. You need something like a raid0 setup or an OCZ Vertex 3 to hit 7.9 My 4GHz quad Phenom is now the bottleneck, anyway. :cer_laugh:

Boot times don't bother me as much (although it's at ~16s from device selection to fully loaded welcome screen. It's application loading and just general responsiveness that I got it for. I'm not a fan of the whole multi-drive setup, with a storage drive. But I'm willing to deal with it for the benefits that I get from the SSD. Stuff like iTunes opens before I let go of the mouse button.
 
I agree, the speed is the main reason I got one a while ago, but I think I'll have to get a new one here in a few months. I got an intel 40GB for my boot drive a while back and while it's still fast, it's slowed down considerably since I've filled it to within 5GB from capacity. I've been thinking of going with a OWC or an OCZ drive as they both use the sandforce controllers but aren't as expensive as Intel drives.
I've felt really spoiled by the ssd whenever I boot into windows or Mac OS Lion as they are both stored on normal storage drives and they take ~80s boot while the ssd drops me into ~20s XD

Small update: I just took the iWork Apple certification exam today and passed. \o/
 
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I really want an SSD because of the speed and lightning-fast boot times, but I can't bring myself to spend the multiple hundred dollars that a decently-sized one would cost. I've been waiting a few years for them to drop in price but...they're not going anywhere.
 
Morkula said:
I really want an SSD because of the speed and lightning-fast boot times, but I can't bring myself to spend the multiple hundred dollars that a decently-sized one would cost. I've been waiting a few years for them to drop in price but...they're not going anywhere.
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I'm in the same boat, stupid prices, hurry up and drop.

BTW the Windows Score is always the lowest score, so Archer's RAM and Processor is the bottleneck. My netbook's score is a 2.3 and the Atom Processor is the bottleneck.
 
My score's a 2.2, also due to the POS Atom processor. I swear my old laptop from 2006 could better handle things like multiple browser tabs. It even has problems playing music on WinAMP... (it'll stop and start almost like a CD skipping).
 
On my gaming rig, my lowest score is 7.7. Apparently my 1 TB 7200 rpm HD is the bottleneck there.

I never liked that benchmarker. Other stuff like Geekbench is better, IMO.
 
Morkula said:
I really want an SSD because of the speed and lightning-fast boot times, but I can't bring myself to spend the multiple hundred dollars that a decently-sized one would cost. I've been waiting a few years for them to drop in price but...they're not going anywhere.
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It was worth it for me. I got a good price and when the HDD is the bottleneck in most systems, it makes more sense to spend the cash on a better SSD than a CPU, etc.
Buoysel said:
BTW the Windows Score is always the lowest score, so Archer's RAM and Processor is the bottleneck. My netbook's score is a 2.3 and the Atom Processor is the bottleneck.
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Yeah, it's rather sad that my 4GHz Quad Phenom and 8GB 1600MHz DDR3 are the bottlenecks, but eh. :/ I guess I'll have to wait for AMD's Bulldozer. :D Or just get a Phenom X6 1100T and OC the hell out of it, once prices drop.
Elite Overlord LeSabre™ said:
My score's a 2.2, also due to the POS Atom processor. I swear my old laptop from 2006 could better handle things like multiple browser tabs. It even has problems playing music on WinAMP... (it'll stop and start almost like a CD skipping).
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It's quite likely that your old laptop could handle things better. From a single-threaded point of view, the Atom has about the same grunt as a 1.2GHz Pentium 3.
TheAppleFreak said:
On my gaming rig, my lowest score is 7.7. Apparently my 1 TB 7200 rpm HD is the bottleneck there.
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How on earth is your mechanical HDD scoring that much? They shouldn't do over 5.9-6.0.
I never liked that benchmarker. Other stuff like Geekbench is better, IMO.
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Lol, I only used it for bragging rights. :P If you want a proper test, I score 4200 in PCMark 7. Beat that. (AppleFreak just might)
donavannj said:
I think I can back up your claim about how poor the benchmarking system is: my desktop (using only the onboard video card) gets a 4.3 graphics score for Windows Aero but a 5.3 for "Gaming graphics". It really doesn't make much sense how the gaming graphics score can be so much better.
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2D vs 3D acceleration, I would assume. Is it an ATI chip?
 
Archer said:
It doesn't scale terribly well. A Core 2 Duo / 4GB / 5870 system should be looking at ~2000.
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I'll test it on my Core 2 Duo laptop then my dads Core 2 Duo desktop. Edit, or post later the results in a little while.
 
Just a question, would connecting your computer with your internet cable directly speed it up much more than if you get it through a router from a different room?

And is it possible to split your internet cable in two, once going to your computer the other to a router?
 
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