No more productions, no more chatting, no more computer...
8 years ago
I am either to stupid to know how to operate a computer, or I'm just not fit to be using them. My other computer started to handle like an outdated old woman driving a 1971 Ford Pinto, so one of our viewers sent over an extra tower with a better cpu. I also had to Shell out nearly all the money I had to get the rest of the parts I was needing in order to be back in action again, namely a new hard drive, a card reader, and an internal usb Port card. After getting everything installed back on the computer, which took a couple stressful weeks, I noticed all my devices plugged into the USB card were disconnecting and reconnecting constantly. After narrowing the problem down and as suggested by the manufacturer that made the USB card, I hooked up a sata power cable to give the card more power to run my devices, which worked most of the day, and then while watching a movie on the computer, the devices started disconnecting and reconnecting again, this time it was doing it more often, and before I could fix it, the computer went bsod on me, then restarting the computer, I went into one windows explore window and everything locks up and crashed. While waiting for the computer to fully shut down, which took about 15 freaking minutes, I made up my mind that I just don't know what more i need to fix. I'm absolutely clueless. So I come to you tonight from typing all of this on my cell phone to basically announce that i don't know what i can do now and with no more money in my account, and my patience is worry completely thin, I'm going to have to just not use a computer anymore. I've had it with crap I don't know how to deal with it or fix, and no way to make any more repairs or replacements to this money pit of a machine I'm dealing with now. So I don't know how long I'm going to be without a computer again, but it's either use an undertake computer and lose my patience and temper on a constant basis, or do without one and live like a frigging hermit because I feel to damn retarded to know how a computer works x.x I'm truly at my wit's end and I have no other options or clues as to what I need to do to get back to doing anything computer related. I just can't afford to keep throwing money at a computer that just plain doesn't want to give me the privilege of being a member of a technological world like everyone else. Signing off until God knows when, I bid everyone farewell. I don't want it to come to this, but I have lost my patience, i can't handle the stress anymore, and I'm pretty much screwed. x.x sorry for splitting on everyone, but the more I think about it, the more I feel like my head is going to explode. Take care and will miss you all.
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I'm not really sure what's causing the problem, but weird issues like that can often be traced to the power supply. If you can get a spare one from somewhere, it might be worth swapping it out. I wouldn't necessarily recommend buying a new one though, because I'm not sure that's the problem. Another problem area is sometimes faulty memory, but you can test that pretty easily by getting someone to burn you a Linux CD, and running memtest86 from it. It boots directly from the CD, so you don't need a working Windows installation.
Does the problem persist even with the USB card removed completely? A faulty card or drivers could cause all sorts of problems, not just limited to USB.
Then of course there's Windows itself. Sometimes it just needs to be reinstalled, after it gets itself hosed.