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ivyetteSiiiiiiiiiiigh. This computer needs to stop doing this.
It takes forever to start up. Everything lags. The graphics cards keep wigging out. I forgot to mention here, though I ranted mightily on twitter, that the graphics card acted up in such a strange way I feared for my computer. Again. But I was NOT HAVING THAT. See, my mother was sick, and when my mother is sick she doesn't cook or go out and buy food, so I was starving. When I'm hungry you do not want to cross me. And then the graphics card causes strange problems like glitching out sims and then making me have to manually shut it off, and when it comes back there are LINES ON THE SCREEN (hmm, this sounds familiar) and I can only run it in safe mode, otherwise it's an endless loop of starting, getting to a certain point, and then restarting.
Knowing that it seemed to wig out while I was playing my game, I figured it must be the graphics card again.
So I flipped over the tower, opened it up, and flailed wildly for a bit. How do you get a graphics card out? I couldn't remember. There are thingies you push! But without the internet for guidance I couldn't look up which thingies. WHICH THINGIES DO YOU PUUUUUUUSH. Eventually my Hulk powers kicked in- I was HUNGRY, and this is MY BELOVED COMPUTER, and YOU DO NOT MESS WITH MY COMPUTER. YOU DO NOT. Especially not when I'm hungry. So I pushed some levers, wiggled some things, and BAM. I yanked that damn thing out like nobody's business without even breaking it or the computer, pretty much on sheer willpower alone at that point.
I hooked it back up and everything was fine. While on the integrated card I ran sims again to see if it was possibly the game causing trouble, but nope. So I put in the card my boyfriend gave me last time it went crazy and everything looks beautiful, no trouble at all.
Why do graphics cards hate me?
I didn't even bother with tech support this time. If all they're going to do is make me (or more accurately, my mother) spend hours on the phone with people who can't speak English and then send me barely functioning morons to put graphics cards that could potentially hurt my computer in, then forget it. I give up.
Well, anyway. Besides all that my beloved computer is very slow. I have tried everything I can think of. I do not have viruses. I do not have multiple programs running that shouldn't be. I only have I think 3 that run at startup, one of which is our virus/malware scanner. I've tried cleaning registry errors. It regularly scans itself for viruses/blahblah and does a weekly maintenence including defragmenting and deleting unnecessary files. I've moved a large number of files off of the harddrive completely. We got her in February 2007, but later in 2007 or maybe 2008 I think...? we had to get a new harddrive because of... well, I never really did figure out what went wrong, just that we needed a new harddrive. So this computer is a few years old but not so terribly old it should be like this. All of my programs are up to date. I let Windows update when it feels like. I don't have the money for a new computer right now and I really don't want to have to reinstall windows (which is the last solution most people mention).
I'd just like it to get its act together. My boyfriend's similar computer is about the same age and is full to bursting with giant files and programs and it runs like a dream. I don't get it. I think I might buy more memory for it, if I get any more aggravated.
First person who says anything at all about having a Mac, buying one, I should get one, blah blah gets scalped and fed said scalp. JS.
-9:57 AM
It takes forever to start up. Everything lags. The graphics cards keep wigging out. I forgot to mention here, though I ranted mightily on twitter, that the graphics card acted up in such a strange way I feared for my computer. Again. But I was NOT HAVING THAT. See, my mother was sick, and when my mother is sick she doesn't cook or go out and buy food, so I was starving. When I'm hungry you do not want to cross me. And then the graphics card causes strange problems like glitching out sims and then making me have to manually shut it off, and when it comes back there are LINES ON THE SCREEN (hmm, this sounds familiar) and I can only run it in safe mode, otherwise it's an endless loop of starting, getting to a certain point, and then restarting.
Knowing that it seemed to wig out while I was playing my game, I figured it must be the graphics card again.
So I flipped over the tower, opened it up, and flailed wildly for a bit. How do you get a graphics card out? I couldn't remember. There are thingies you push! But without the internet for guidance I couldn't look up which thingies. WHICH THINGIES DO YOU PUUUUUUUSH. Eventually my Hulk powers kicked in- I was HUNGRY, and this is MY BELOVED COMPUTER, and YOU DO NOT MESS WITH MY COMPUTER. YOU DO NOT. Especially not when I'm hungry. So I pushed some levers, wiggled some things, and BAM. I yanked that damn thing out like nobody's business without even breaking it or the computer, pretty much on sheer willpower alone at that point.
I hooked it back up and everything was fine. While on the integrated card I ran sims again to see if it was possibly the game causing trouble, but nope. So I put in the card my boyfriend gave me last time it went crazy and everything looks beautiful, no trouble at all.
Why do graphics cards hate me?
I didn't even bother with tech support this time. If all they're going to do is make me (or more accurately, my mother) spend hours on the phone with people who can't speak English and then send me barely functioning morons to put graphics cards that could potentially hurt my computer in, then forget it. I give up.
Well, anyway. Besides all that my beloved computer is very slow. I have tried everything I can think of. I do not have viruses. I do not have multiple programs running that shouldn't be. I only have I think 3 that run at startup, one of which is our virus/malware scanner. I've tried cleaning registry errors. It regularly scans itself for viruses/blahblah and does a weekly maintenence including defragmenting and deleting unnecessary files. I've moved a large number of files off of the harddrive completely. We got her in February 2007, but later in 2007 or maybe 2008 I think...? we had to get a new harddrive because of... well, I never really did figure out what went wrong, just that we needed a new harddrive. So this computer is a few years old but not so terribly old it should be like this. All of my programs are up to date. I let Windows update when it feels like. I don't have the money for a new computer right now and I really don't want to have to reinstall windows (which is the last solution most people mention).
I'd just like it to get its act together. My boyfriend's similar computer is about the same age and is full to bursting with giant files and programs and it runs like a dream. I don't get it. I think I might buy more memory for it, if I get any more aggravated.
First person who says anything at all about having a Mac, buying one, I should get one, blah blah gets scalped and fed said scalp. JS.
-9:57 AM
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Date: 2010-04-08 04:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-04-08 04:31 pm (UTC)Such a mystery, this computer.
ALSO HAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII :D
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Date: 2010-04-08 04:58 pm (UTC)I hate Vista so much. I blame it for everything. LOL. Maybe you can find a version of Windows 7 ~around somewhere?
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Date: 2010-04-08 06:06 pm (UTC)I do not have a Mac. But a cheap little Toshiba. It's a decent computer, but it has Vista and Vista is VERY problematic. I want a new version of Windows =[ My disc drive doesn't work. Because Vista makes it not work. So, maybe Vista is trying to reject your graphics card?
Maybe downgrade. A guy that my mom used to work with put everything back to Windows XP. Maybe you should try that if possible?
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Date: 2010-04-08 08:36 pm (UTC)BUT OMG POOR COMPUTER. :(
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Date: 2010-04-09 03:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-04-09 03:21 am (UTC)ANYWAY AS I WAS SAYING A LOT OF STUFF FOR SIMS DOESN'T RUN PROPERLY ON MACS, ESPECIALLY CUSTOM CONTENT BUT A LOT OF OFFICIAL STUFF TOO. SO THAT RIGHT THERE IS A NO-GO EVEN BESIDES THE FACT THAT THEY SUCK IN GENERAL AND NOTHING RUNS ON THEM AND YOU CAN'T FIX THEM YOURSELF. AND THEY AREN'T EVEN THAT PRETTY. YEAH I SAID IT. MACS ARE KIND OF FUG.
AND TY FOR THE SYMPATHY. ATHENA APPRECIATES IT <333
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Date: 2010-04-09 03:23 am (UTC)I'm kind of wary of downloading something like that... I'm afraid they'll track me down and arrest me or something :( So we'll just have to wait and see what happens.
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Date: 2010-04-09 03:23 am (UTC)and some Emeril's Rib Rub, I hear that's tasty on scalp
and anyway macbooks break too.
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Date: 2010-04-09 03:26 am (UTC)I don't think Vista has a problem with the graphics card, because it always runs fine for awhile until something goes wrong, but it doesn't seem to be rejecting it, it's the card itself that's the problem (personally I think this card and the one that was the same model that they tried to give me before that acted up are from a bad batch or something.)
I don't like XP though. There are a lot of Vista functions that I like and I don't really like the idea of going back to old technology.
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Date: 2010-04-16 02:21 pm (UTC)Have you researched the card type to see if other people are getting stabby stabby?
And Macs are useless, as well as evil. I wouldn't take one for free, and instead they sell them for like 10x the cost of a pc. Choke on an apple lump and die, trendwhores.
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Date: 2010-04-17 02:46 am (UTC)I did see one other person with a similar card who seemed to have a similar problem but that was it. I'm not going to use an nvidia card ever again after all of this though. Whatever's in there now, I forget what it is, that can stay, because it's been brilliant so far.
Ughhh macs are SO useless. Whenever something goes wrong it's impossible to fix by yourself. And sorry, but we don't all live within a reasonable distance from an apple store. I wouldn't take one for free either, I'd rather hook a typewriter up to a tv console and use that as a computer.
I second the choking. :D