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Guys, I need your help.
2 years ago
Recently, I turned on my computer, only to discover that something is wrong with it. I opened Steam, only to find that it couldn't download any games at all -- always that "No Internet connection" or "Manifest unavailable" errors. This also made all the games unplayable, because upon launching a game, Steam must first check and see if there are any updates available. Technically, I could go Offline Mode, but that would also mean missing out all the achievements, and my saves will be unsynchronized from the cloud saves.
At first, I thought that there was something wrong with Steam's servers, or my country's Internet being the culprit, so I changed the download location to see if that worked. It didn't, no matter which country I've set. I asked a few of my Malaysian friends to check and see if there's any problem with their respective Steam connectivity, downloading and installing games. All of them said that there's nothing wrong with their respective Steam connections: they can download and run games as normal.
Then I noticed that a few other programs that require an Internet connection to work also refused to run properly, too. Telegram Desktop always hangs and unable to load any new messages, and Muse Hub, which is bundled with the most recent release of the popular free music notation app MuseScore, also couldn't function well, preventing it from being able to update MuseScore or install any optional add-ons to MuseScore.
I started to fear that the problem might've been the computer itself, so to test my theory, I borrowed my father's laptop, installed Steam on it, signed myself in, and downloaded and installed a game and ran it. It worked with no problems whatsoever. So the problem definitely had to be within Windows itself, or there may be hardware-related problems that is preventing my computer's network adapter to function properly, specifically the TCP protocols and such. I did try to do a full reset to Windows as a last resort -- after backing up all my most important files, of course -- but then, my computer said that there's a problem with the resetting process, preventing it from being able to reset Windows.
I've told my parents about all these, and they've agreed to help. I'm deeply fortunate to have parents who are still willing to help me in times of need. In 1 hour from writing this journal entry, we will be going out to the mall bringing along this computer, in order to do two things: 1) let a computer expert to try to assess the problem of my computer, and 2) build myself another gaming rig from scratch, with the latest recommended specs if possible. All in the same day.
I hate having to beg you guys for this, but as building a new computer alone takes quite a lot of money, I'm going to need all the donations I can get. You can become my patron: https://www.patreon.com/marwangreencritter You can send me Ko-Fis: https://ko-fi.com/marwangreencritter Heck, since I'm recently an active Twitch streamer, you can even send me tips via my Streamlabs page: https://streamlabs.com/marwangreencritter/tip All the donations will be used solely to cover the cost of building a new PC. My current computer is almost 10 years old now, so it's in dire need of replacement, as all these signs that it's dying are now too much for me to ignore, and no amount of hardware upgrades can remedy it now.
Thank you.
At first, I thought that there was something wrong with Steam's servers, or my country's Internet being the culprit, so I changed the download location to see if that worked. It didn't, no matter which country I've set. I asked a few of my Malaysian friends to check and see if there's any problem with their respective Steam connectivity, downloading and installing games. All of them said that there's nothing wrong with their respective Steam connections: they can download and run games as normal.
Then I noticed that a few other programs that require an Internet connection to work also refused to run properly, too. Telegram Desktop always hangs and unable to load any new messages, and Muse Hub, which is bundled with the most recent release of the popular free music notation app MuseScore, also couldn't function well, preventing it from being able to update MuseScore or install any optional add-ons to MuseScore.
I started to fear that the problem might've been the computer itself, so to test my theory, I borrowed my father's laptop, installed Steam on it, signed myself in, and downloaded and installed a game and ran it. It worked with no problems whatsoever. So the problem definitely had to be within Windows itself, or there may be hardware-related problems that is preventing my computer's network adapter to function properly, specifically the TCP protocols and such. I did try to do a full reset to Windows as a last resort -- after backing up all my most important files, of course -- but then, my computer said that there's a problem with the resetting process, preventing it from being able to reset Windows.
I've told my parents about all these, and they've agreed to help. I'm deeply fortunate to have parents who are still willing to help me in times of need. In 1 hour from writing this journal entry, we will be going out to the mall bringing along this computer, in order to do two things: 1) let a computer expert to try to assess the problem of my computer, and 2) build myself another gaming rig from scratch, with the latest recommended specs if possible. All in the same day.
I hate having to beg you guys for this, but as building a new computer alone takes quite a lot of money, I'm going to need all the donations I can get. You can become my patron: https://www.patreon.com/marwangreencritter You can send me Ko-Fis: https://ko-fi.com/marwangreencritter Heck, since I'm recently an active Twitch streamer, you can even send me tips via my Streamlabs page: https://streamlabs.com/marwangreencritter/tip All the donations will be used solely to cover the cost of building a new PC. My current computer is almost 10 years old now, so it's in dire need of replacement, as all these signs that it's dying are now too much for me to ignore, and no amount of hardware upgrades can remedy it now.
Thank you.
Then Avast & eventually the other top antivirus whatever it was they bought too - basically the same damn thing but in this case it choked the system, randomly prevented internet connections and eventually could only start the PC when I deleted its folder externally.
Then used some more basic one (Avira or whatever) but then couldn't update it anymore because system is too old.
Just been doing without an antivirus program for around 5 years.
I got other security programs & settings set to high though.
And then this crap with Kaspersky happened, and now I find myself in this awkward situation where I can no longer trust Kaspersky for overstepping its bounds. It took that computer guy in the computer shop to finally figure out the problem being Kaspersky itself, and why many gamers like to disable their antivirus software because of issues like that.