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Posted by Orpheus on Tue Jun 7th at 12:21pm 2005

I want to start this thread in the hopes that we can keep all of our computer solutions in one place. I realize that not every solution is viable to everyone, but still... Even if its a solution you do not particularly agree is legit, it will allow others to decide if its for them.

Most people have heating issues due to dust and whatnot, well I had a heating issue due to to many cooling fans.. YES, believe it or not, I actually had to many blowing outward from within my cabinet and my power supply was running hot enough that it hurt to touch it. NO not painfully so, but you damn sure knew it was warm.

Well, my solution was relatively simple.. My cabinet had one more fan location, and I have s**t loads of computer cabinets laying around so I took the biggest one I could find and installed it blowing... inward.

Whether this is a viable solution or not for some, it actually relieved the stress on my power supply fan and it now runs cool to the touch.. Go figure. *shrugs*

If you guys have any computer problems/solutions you have, or have had in the past, post them here for others to survey.





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Posted by Wild Card on Tue Jun 7th at 1:25pm 2005

If you have more fans blowing out than in, you can lower the air pressure in the case after prolonged usage, and that can raise the temperature.

I have a computer issue. I leave it on 24/7 and the central air conditioning at home cant keep up with the heat my box generates. <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif">




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Posted by Orpheus on Tue Jun 7th at 1:32pm 2005

? quoting Wild Card
If you have more fans blowing out than in, you can lower the air pressure in the case after prolonged usage, and that can raise the temperature.

I have a computer issue. I leave it on 24/7 and the central air conditioning at home cant keep up with the heat my box generates.

Yeah, I never would have guessed.. I suggest you turn one of yours around too.





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Posted by Loco on Tue Jun 7th at 3:32pm 2005

Problem: Win XP randomly decides one day to change the default C drive option to "Search...", so I can no longer actually open the damn thing. God knows how this happened. And no, it wasn't a virus or spyware - I checked.

Solution: One hell of a messy hack actually. I opened up the Folder options and clicked on the file types tab. Then I opened up the options for "Drive" and added a new option "open" associated with explorer.exe and made this the default. I can now only open it in a new window, but at least I can actually get to it.

As I said, God knows how this one happened.



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Posted by Wild Card on Tue Jun 7th at 3:43pm 2005

You probably at one point or another downloaded something which modified your Registry and that fubared it.

Another good one. My laptop doesnt have a battery so I have to run it from the wall outlet. However, the if you move the cable even the slightest, the power is lost and the laptop turns off. I was checking my email while listening to music, and this happened. Its a frequent occurance so all I did was wiggle the cable a bit and turn the laptop back on. However, this time, instead of booting into Windows, I got a message saying my hard drive had no partition.

Sure enough, I checked it on my desktop and BIOS did recognise the hard drive, but no file partition was on the drive. In that instant, I had lost all data on it. Oh well, it wasnt much important, back ups, mainly, from my desktop.




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Posted by fraggard on Tue Jun 7th at 4:03pm 2005

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You probably at one point or another downloaded something which modified your Registry and that fubared it.

Another good one. My laptop doesnt have a battery so I have to run it from the wall outlet. However, the if you move the cable even the slightest, the power is lost and the laptop turns off. I was checking my email while listening to music, and this happened. Its a frequent occurance so all I did was wiggle the cable a bit and turn the laptop back on. However, this time, instead of booting into Windows, I got a message saying my hard drive had no partition.

Sure enough, I checked it on my desktop and BIOS did recognise the hard drive, but no file partition was on the drive. In that instant, I had lost all data on it. Oh well, it wasnt much important, back ups, mainly, from my desktop.


It is possible to retrieve all the data intact, since it is not the entire partition that was lost, but just the partition table on the MBR. I have done it recently for a friend's PC. The only thing is that you have to NOT use the PC at all till you get it repaired.

Possible Solutions:
1) Get a linux based rescue CD which has parted on it. I used the FC3 recovery disk. Use parted to rescue the partitions.
2) Get Partition Magic (costs money). That'll set you up with a pretty looking GUI on a bootable floppy (cd?) that does the same work.




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Posted by Wild Card on Tue Jun 7th at 4:06pm 2005

Well I've since reformated, but I do have partition magic. But all the options available refer to creating, deleting, or modifying partitions.




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Posted by fraggard on Tue Jun 7th at 4:11pm 2005

? quote:
Well I've since reformated, but I do have partition magic. But all the options available refer to creating, deleting, or modifying partitions.


I checked an expired trial I have lying around , and the help file says you need to select the free space you want to search, then go to Operations > Undelete.




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Posted by Orpheus on Tue Jun 7th at 4:11pm 2005

? quoting fraggard


2) Get Partition Magic (costs money). That'll set you up with a pretty looking GUI on a bootable floppy (cd?) that does the same work.

If interested gimme a yell.. (costs time)





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Posted by Wild Card on Tue Jun 7th at 4:13pm 2005

Dont worry Jon, I'll give you extra diapers if you need them for your troubles.

Frag, we may have different versions of the same program, as mine is DOS boot disk with a DOS-type interface.




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Posted by Dark Tree on Tue Jun 7th at 8:19pm 2005

I'll tell you something that recently borked.

I had a thread in the General banter with the subject line 'G'. It contained the phrase 'Flash for thought' and had a link.....wtf happened to that thread? I just posted it last night. I even visited it a couple of times...so it really was here! did it get deleted by an admin or something?





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Posted by Orpheus on Tue Jun 7th at 8:45pm 2005

? quoting Dark Tree
I'll tell you something that recently borked.

I had a thread in the General banter with the subject line 'G'. It contained the phrase 'Flash for thought' and had a link.....wtf happened to that thread? I just posted it last night. I even visited it a couple of times...so it really was here! did it get deleted by an admin or something?

At least on two separate occasions I have had threads come up missing.. I am only referring to unexplained missings now.. I am unsure, but I think periodically the host loads a backup copy of snarkpit and I just happen to post moments before such an event.

Since I have no way to confirm this it is entirely supposition on my part.





The best things in life, aren't things.



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Posted by Andrei on Tue Jun 7th at 9:08pm 2005

Recently b0rked? My HDD. I had to use a data recovery tool to get my stuff back. It seemes that the clusters containing info about the HDD got *somehow* messed-up. When booting, BIOS inspects those clusters and, if it can't read them, it will consider the drive kaputt. Of course, the data recovery tool would have required me to pay 50 USD in order to run but I managed to get my hands on of those taboo dingies.Don't you just love the way those capitalist exploiters like to take advantage of someone's despair to squeeze some more cash?




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Posted by Myrk- on Wed Jun 8th at 1:20am 2005

? quoting Wild Card
I have a computer issue. I leave it on 24/7 and the central air conditioning at home cant keep up with the heat my box generates.

Buy new CPU paste, a new CPU coolant block with gold or copper contacts, and thats about it... Thats what I have and my PC is always cool, always working 24/7. I find its best to make a front to back blow of air over the hard drives.

Oh also get a PSU with a massive fan- bigger = cooler and quieter.




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Posted by Wild Card on Wed Jun 8th at 2:14am 2005

I gots my cooling all figured out. Its not so much the computer, but the computer/monitor combination. I have a Thermaltake Silent Boost heatsink and 5 Vantec Stealth 80mm case fans (3 intake, 2 exhaust) and a Thermaltake Butterfly 480Watt PSU.

If I wasnt putting in all my money in flying, I might invest in water cooling...




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Posted by Tracer Bullet on Wed Jun 8th at 5:09am 2005

I might suggest that it is a bit of a waste to run 600+ wats of equipment 24/ At that rate you use 432 kWh per month which at my electricity rates would amount to $42 per month... $500 a year just to power your system is no joke. You could probably afford to buy a new video card every year if you didn't leave your computer on all the time.




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Posted by Orpheus on Wed Jun 8th at 5:24am 2005

I turn mine off daily, but only to help lower the dust it acquires. I live in a farming community and dust is ever present.

I really dislike having to do so, because I am a believer that turning a machine off and on shortens its life span by putting temperature wear on the components.. I would prefer to leave them on 24/7 to maintain temperature at a constant level.. I dunno about your home, but in the winter its often much colder in my computer room as I do not heat it, or actually I chose not to waste heat in it since its not necessary.





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Posted by wil5on on Wed Jun 8th at 6:18am 2005

I hardly see how turning a computer off and on once a day can cause "temperature wear". Its not a sudden temperature change, when a computer is switched off it would cool gradually, and when you turn it on it would heat up gradually. 25 degrees C (about the difference between my CPU temp and room temp right now) over the course of 10 or so minutes wont affect plastic much, if at all, and metal even less. In fact, if your computer is being physically damaged by anything temperature-related, your problems are much more serious than turning it off/on. That actually struck me as strange when I went to america, many of you leave your computers on 24/7. I dont know anyone in Australia who does that without a good reason (ie. servers).

On computer problems... Not too long ago, my alternate hard drive somehow un-formatted itself magically. One day it just didnt show up in explorer. I checked disk management, it said the drive was unpartitioned. I didnt have anything on it anyway, so I formatted/partitioned it, and it works now. Strange tho.




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Posted by French Toast on Wed Jun 8th at 11:48am 2005

Well, just recently (yesterday) my computer stopped booting. So then I plugged in my hard drive, because one of the cables was loose, and blammo I fixed it!




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Posted by Myrk- on Wed Jun 8th at 12:10pm 2005

Always happens with IDE...




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