WTF is wrong with my computer

I've never had a problem and I've got numerous systems running here... What kind of websites are you going to that's causing you to have to do a re-install of Windows every 4 months?

 

Like I said, in my overly lengthy post, my computer was doing the same thing,,going into "standby" as if on a whim. Then, as you say, it wouldn't recover without difficulty. Very unpredictable shut-downs, and difficult re-boots.

It was something about the memory settings, something that went away, like "magic", when I went into BIOS and chose one of the default settings, "optimal" or "best performance". The default setting changed the RAM stick timing, and everything worked from then on, like a new computer.

I don't know if your computer's BIOS has that option, to choose a default setting, but there should be some way to set the memory timing, setting it for a slower memory speed.

If all of your settings are set for the speediest possible performance, then some things might fail, because you're system or your memory can't take it. Best then to back off and set things a bit slower, for more stability.

 

Well it's been checked top to bottom by an IT expert and he thinks it's just a slow connection from my ISP due to sharing resources with my neighbors who are also online at the same time so I have less juice for my end. And some setting I had to make it go into sleep mode.

No virus or problem of any kind. Registry, cookies, and all that have been cleared so I am hoping it helps.

 

Cool, man!

 

you must look at some serious porn. my pc is 6-7 years old and i generally only need to format it about once every two years. right now it's been at least two years since i've done it and it's still running almost like new.

 

sounds to me like all of your computers have satan in their souls.

You must flush with holy water immediately!

 

ive never formatted...thought it did that on it own or something :leaving:

 

I've never had to reformat my computer until recently, and we built it in 2001. Never had to format over any infections or malware.

Just recently, I moved all my data over to a new drive to save, and then installed Windows XP after repartitioning the original HDD into three 20 gig partitions, one for W2000, the original OS, one for XP, and one I left vacant but formatted, for some Linux distro for the future. I left the original W2000 partition on it without formatting.

 

Dude, if your OS needs that, you need a new OS, that's total bull.

OP:

it sounds like you could have a number of things wrong.

You could have a hardware problem, I've had a problem where a dieing drive would hang my whole system, even though it had nothing to do with the OS I was booting, and was just backup stuff. it would boot and hang, or stop part way through booting, and randomly reboot. I figured out it was that drive, pulled it, and it was fine.

Sometimes RAM can do this-download the tool "memtest", it's a utility that you will need to burn to a CD and boot into (or many linux install CD's have it as an extra boot option) and run a few full test sets on your RAM.

Whenever you touch components inside a computer, touch a bare metal surface on the case to discharge static electricity, and try not to do anything that could generate static while you work-periodically or constantly touching the case is a good idea, if you don't have a wrist-strap or something, and are paranoid.

Sometimes after years, connections can shift, I've had more than one time with more than one computer where it seemed to be good for nothing but a boat anchor, and I unplugged every connector including the RAM, blew it out with canned air, put it all back in, and it ran like a champ. At the least, reseating RAM is dead easy and can fix all sorts of things.

If it started after funny power cycles or something, it may well be a hardware problem. Also, you might boot into the bios and try disabling ACPI/other sleep features, and making sure there's no setting that would put it to sleep on any type of signal, like a modem ring or keystroke or whatever. You could download a temp monitor app, and find the normal range online for the components in your system, and then watch your temps-if the computer took a knock or something, you could have shifted a heatsink or messed up thermal paste, and it reboots when it overheats to save itself.




If it's software, this can easily be determined by installing windows on a little spare drive-if you have IT friends, ask them for a drive and a cable for it, and stick it in (quite easy, plug in the cable, plug the other end to the motherboard, and plug in a power connector, secure the drive). If you don't have a windows install disc, ya screwed yourself, not buying or making one..... but you could get linux and try the same thing. And you just might decide to stick with linux.

Also, don't forget to unplug your main drive-prevents any nooby mistakes, like deleting all your shit when you meant to get the other drive.

If you can't get a drive, ubuntu has a simple installer, that lets you install alongside windows on one drive, with relatively little thought, as far as I know.


There's also the simple possibility that some of your software, like flash, changed with an update, as you said. There was both a funky flash update a while ago that changed how mine deals with multiple windows, etc, and near the same time, a flash-disguised trojan.

 

Use avira

 

Ever few weeks I kill disk my hard drive and reinstall the operating system . I have stuff backed up on usb drives , cds , dvds ect . http://www.killdisk.com/ I down load a bunch . desert rat

 

people calm . the more you use your pc . more they need format .
if you use it like a gamer . 100% full gaming . they need format . video editing , graphics ,auto cad etc . this is microsoft . you like it or not .

 

already know this . you never get tired writing so much . help him .

 

No, I don't get tired of writing, but reading your posts you clearly do, or you might not omit half of the words in any given sentence.

Yes, I was helping him, hence the "OP:", before my advice to him. You only got one line, I don't care about you....

But yeah, even with windows, you do NOT need to format unless you don't take care of your system and it's so infected it's a total loss, OR if you have a catastrophic drive failure and lose everything. The format itself should be just fine if the disk mounts and verifies. Gaming or video editing does NOT mean you need to format, or your hard drive is on it's very last legs and you need to stop using it, backup, and replace it, pronto. Or maybe you just don't know how to buy drives.....

If it's privacy you care about, you can zerofill, or use whole disk incryption, and you should have NO problems, even if the fucking KGB is after you.

So.... WHY should it be formatted so often, other than "thats just how microsoft is" or whatever? WHY are microsoft products like that? I don't LIKE them, but NTFS or FAT does not self destruct, even if it fragments..... and it can be TOTALLY defragmented with little trouble, and the OS knows better than to let it get too bad.

Constant formats are the voodoo of the computer illiterate, who believe themselves to know shit about shit.

 

WTF . is this your obsession ? i ''waste'' all my life with microsoft . and i know how microsoft works .
let me tell you one thing . microsoft 8 and microsoft xp . are the same . difference ?you find it , is so easy

 

Was going to chime in, but that pretty much covers it.
Only time reformatting is needed is when re-installing the OS, never do updates, always a clean install.
Or when hit by one of the more nasty types of malware that infiltrate everything everywhere, but that is avoidable.

My system was brought to life in March 2009, added second drive in 2010. Haven't had a single issue that would even remotely hint at reformatting the drives as a solution. I have other systems/drives that are 10+ years old still functioning fine without the need to reformat.

If you test your drives and do find bad sectors, fix them, back-up your data and go buy a replacement drive ASAP. Formatting a drive won't recover bad sectors nor will it stop the progression of failure. Bad sectors are often due to a loss of "magnetic integrity" at the molecular level of the platters and happens after many millions of polarity flips. The problem then cascades across the drive in a domino effect.
So replace any drives that report bad sectors, it only gets worse.

(got off on a tangent there)

To the OP. Check your power supply. A faulty or failing power supply can cause ALLL kinds of problems.

 

Either you can restore your previous "last worked good" settings through the restore point..OR..You can partition your C:/ drive...

Cheers!!:afro: