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Micharus:
Computers can be funny things, huh.

Had to take it back today after having had it for around a week.

It started to crash/freeze randomly..... there was literally no pattern to the freeze.

I spent a few frustrating days roaming various forums and trying a few things.

In the end the only thing I actually managed to do is update the bios to the most current version.

With a bit of luck, I should have it back tomorrow (wednesday) or the next day.

In the meantime I decided to mess around with my old Acer laptop.
As you can see, I managed to get it to hook up to the 'net, wonder of wonders.

It's not great, but it's lots better than not having 'net access at all and I can play "Freelancer" (discovery mod) on it as well, all effects turned down tho, but it's still fun and I managed to get the laptop to talk to my new monitor, an Asus VW266H.

vuzedome:
Bad drivers? Defective hard drive? Heating?

Micharus:

--- Quote from: vuzedome on April 13, 2010, 11:14:33 PM ---Bad drivers? Defective hard drive? Heating?

--- End quote ---

Turns out it was an "I D 10 T" fault....

It appears that the problems were caused by installing Windoze XP over the top of an old windoze install, this will on the odd occasion cause random freezes among other problems.

Fortunately, the guys at the computer shop were tolerant of the fact that it was probably my fault and didn't rub my nose it.
I ended up paying only $55 (Australian) for my sins and they did a full CLEAN re-install for me.

So far it's been behaving itself, it hasn't crashed yet. The current plan is to leave it on overnight, like I normally do. If it's going to crash, it'll do it then.

Must re-seed all the torrents that I had running before then.

Micharus:
BAH!  >:( >:(

Crashed overnight and a few times since then.

It has to be a software problem and there are only a few programs that have been installed/upgraded since I got the new PC.

At this point I am checking out ZASS (Zone Alarm Security Suite) to see if it is causing problems. From what I've seen on the forums the current version of ZASS is causing some people problems, problems that sound exactly like the ones I am having.

As luck would have it, I still have the install programs for the previous version of ZASS, so I've uninstalled the current version and installed the previous version of it.

If it turns out that it's not ZASS, then the next program to check is the driver/utility package for the new video card (Sapphire Radeon HD 5770).
The 'Catalyst Control Centre' is the other program that may be causing dramas.

The plan will be to uninstall both the drivers and the CCC, then re-install the reference driver pack.
 
Of course this means that won't be able to 'tweak' the video card, but that's not going to matter too much as it is a pretty good card anyhow. 1gb ram ftw!

Micharus:
Last update!

You know what that means..... it's fixed.  :D :D

Turns out it was Zone Alarm Security Suite at fault.

After uninstalling the current version of it and then re-installing the previous version, my PC ran all night without a hiccup.

So, now I'll be keeping an eye on the ZA site to see when the next version is coming out and hopefully it will be 'bug free'.

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