So I recently build a gaming computer using high quality components. It's running great, except for one small problem: it completely freezes on a completely sporadic basis. Sometimes it will run all night without a problem, other times it freezes within minutes. It usually happens while I'm in a ...
(though I would suspect any USB device could; I've had a USB HDD with a faulty cable that shorted and killed a USB controller while freezing the computer)
Ok. It has the system clock ticking away, so I'll let it sit.
Since I doubt you went through and read the context conversation from the other day, there are certain things I can do that usually trigger the freeze (doesn't seem entirely deterministic):
> Iflash BIOS Update / Integrator Toolkit BIOS Files [SIX7910J.86A.0553.BI.ZIP] - A DOS-based utility to update the BIOS regardless of operating system. It requires a CD or a USB flash device. This download also provides the necessary files for Intel® Integrator Toolkit. Support and FAQs for Intel® Integrator Toolkit are available here.
@bluejeansummer There is no such thing as 'to completion'
Noticed a few semi-regular patterns that I couldn't identify (didn't look like normal pins), but I think it's fine.
I'm on the phone with my brother in law who I've also been keeping in the loop about this whole thing, and he pointed out that it can't be a bad power issue.
I took the computer to PAX in Seattle this fall, and that was where it was acting up the most. The other 400+ computers were fine.
@Bob Figured you meant VMware... and yeah, Workstation 9 works extremely well overall
I first bought into VMware Workstation at version 7 with their first-generation guest 3d acceleration (driven by the host GPU). It was.... okay, but slow. Version 8 was a huge improvement. Version 9 is just awesome.
They make you pay for each major version upgrade, but they're infrequent, and the upgrade is way cheaper than buying a full license
It's priced... interestingly, I think. Most people in developed countries making a living wage can "barely" afford a license if they plan around the purchase. It's cheaper than, say, Photoshop or Office, but more expensive than a casual game or so.
They certainly don't leave any money on the table, but it's not like you have to starve for a month to buy it...
Their server product prices are, predictably, ridiculous... but that's because they sell to businesses mainly, while workstation tries to target BOTH businesses AND individuals
some people just don't realize how fast technology evolves and how far behind you are if you stay with the same old stuff for, oh, I don't know, 10 - 15 years
technically if you apply the fix and you boot up Win95 and just leave it at the desktop, it'll actually run for quite a long time.... it starts to fail if you want to launch actual programs
@JohannesM I doubt he was running any software for which there truly is no equivalent on a more modern OS; more likely, he just refused to acknowledge that technology has progressed so far
same mentality as the guy driving a '54 chevy truck in 2013
maybe when all the kids are getting help by beaming their consciousness into the virtual reality net, I'll be curmudgeony and set in my ways by getting help on the forgotten "Web" by going to SuperUser
"You're still running Windows 9? You don't have a quantum computer?!?! You're still using USB?!?!!?!?!? .... Just die, already!" some 20-something will say to me when I'm 70
gah, i always get drawn into software-rec questions.... and i feel obligated to defend them and help answer them :/ that's why my original gravatar was the barbie shopping pic from the blog
I'm looking for a media player (preferably linux-based) with client-server architecture, where multiple clients can add files to the a queue. These files are hosted on the client machines, so dropping a file into the queue should cause some background uploading to the server.
A voting system wou...
lot of random downvotes today also; this is not NARQ... the question may be complicated but that doesn't make it NARQ... he just provides a lot of information... sigh PEOPLE
I am trying to reserve an IP address for my desktop PC in a DIR-825 and when I type in all the details and press the Save button it tells me that the MAC address is invalid.
My MAC address looks something like 1C:BD:B9:xx:xx:xx.
I can add and save other MAC addresses from my other networked ...
we'd have a skype convo and get drunk and she'd send me pics of her dressed in a garment that was basically the Australia flag mapped onto pajama top and bottoms
our region is temperate / sub-tropical. it's usually somewhat dry and cold (few degrees below freezing) in winter, and dry and hot (around 101 F) in summer.... in the spring and fall the temps are mild but we get loads of rain... so yeah we get four very diverse seasons
we get hurricanes, but not as bad as Florida... we get tornadoes but not as bad as the midwest... we're spared the extremes of weather for the most part except for hurricanes
unlike some parts of the world, we have to keep both warm weather and cold weather clothes... heavy coat and swimming trunks ;P
would you be able to try running vmware on the radeon? or maybe the entire system on the radeon?
i'm unable to point the finger of blame without hard evidence, but Intel's graphics drivers really stink, man... they make AMD Catalyst look good, and that's saying a lot
I am trying to reserve an IP address for my desktop PC in a DIR-825 and when I type in all the details and press the Save button it tells me that the MAC address is invalid.
My MAC address looks something like 1C:BD:B9:xx:xx:xx.
I can add and save other MAC addresses from my other networked ...
