~o/`` Reinstalling Windows o/``~
Feb. 27th, 2004 04:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rallamajoopThose of you who see to me on AIM regularly have probably noticed I seem to have developed a habit disappearing without warning. A lot. Often several times a conversation. Sometimes several times a minute*.
(*Well spotted! Yes, that last bit was in fact an exaggeration. But only because my computer takes most of a minute to reset.)
Naturally, this is all my computer's fault. It's decided freezing up at random is a Really Fun Thing To Do.
Needless to say, this is starting to get rather irritating. There are patterns to it, but they're never particularly consistent - it's one of those really funny problems you really don't know what to make of. It'll get gradually worse until it hits the stage where you're frustrated enough to try something drastic, then vanish completely for just long enough to put you off your guard only to leap out and bite you again a week or two later. For the first month or two after it first started getting really bad running winamp seemed to prevent it from happening altogether. Later this trick stopped working.
Past attempts at fixing the problem have been made without result. As a last resort (and after ages spent backing every file on the computer on to CD) last night I tried wiping every file from the hard drive and reinstalling everything from scratch. Which, let's face it, is no mean task; but should have fixed pretty much anything.
My computer has already frozen up twice since.
Okay Tokyo Tower, I officially admit defeat. Can we call a truce now? Please?
(*Well spotted! Yes, that last bit was in fact an exaggeration. But only because my computer takes most of a minute to reset.)
Naturally, this is all my computer's fault. It's decided freezing up at random is a Really Fun Thing To Do.
Needless to say, this is starting to get rather irritating. There are patterns to it, but they're never particularly consistent - it's one of those really funny problems you really don't know what to make of. It'll get gradually worse until it hits the stage where you're frustrated enough to try something drastic, then vanish completely for just long enough to put you off your guard only to leap out and bite you again a week or two later. For the first month or two after it first started getting really bad running winamp seemed to prevent it from happening altogether. Later this trick stopped working.
Past attempts at fixing the problem have been made without result. As a last resort (and after ages spent backing every file on the computer on to CD) last night I tried wiping every file from the hard drive and reinstalling everything from scratch. Which, let's face it, is no mean task; but should have fixed pretty much anything.
My computer has already frozen up twice since.
Okay Tokyo Tower, I officially admit defeat. Can we call a truce now? Please?
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Date: 2004-02-27 07:52 am (UTC)Well, if it makes you feel any better, if you ever go to Java Juice, chances are they will get your name right, and at least if you want some form of canned softdrink out of your own fridge you don't have to pay 80c for it because one of the people you live with is making you buy them to raise money for a convention they are on the commity on for next year.....
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Date: 2004-02-29 01:29 am (UTC)On the other hand, we never have canned softdrink in our fridge, priced or otherwise. Any everyone who doesn't confuse me with Lisa spells my name with a 'K'. :P
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Date: 2004-02-27 08:49 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-02-28 10:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-02-27 11:30 am (UTC)<-- Ive had this problem before more than once, somethings ive noticed 1. The fan on the cpu wasnt working properly, resulting in overheating and making it freeze
2.Same things happend to the fan on my old tnt2 card a long time ago and that didnt actualy freeze the computer but made it look like it was frozen
3.<-- Im an overclocking nut for the sake of feeding my gaming addictions, if your not worried about losing performance reduce the voltage going to the cpu (underclock it) in the bios. That should make it more stable
The relationship i have with my pc :p =
well i have no success with trying to fix my pc so if it blows up due to my advice the voices made me do it
^_^
Date: 2004-02-28 03:13 am (UTC)Chrono Trigger Is Love
Re: ^_^
Date: 2004-02-29 01:29 am (UTC)