My computer has decides not to show the screen when booting up sometimes until after the OS is booted. Not sure why it does this as if I reset the screen shows normally.
Weird Shit Your Computer Does.
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Sometimes when it is in sleep mode, it will wake itself up. I turn off my mouses and keyboards (all are wireless), so I have no input devices active.
It boots. Randomly. No better way to start your day than having to get out of bed at 3 AM to turn your computer off.
Odd thing is I checked every possible solution: the BIOS autoboot-timer thingy is turned off, the wake-on-LAN thingy is turned off (I eventually disabled the on-board ethernet port), I even disabled all the Windows tasks because I read they could sometimes cause Windows to boot.
Also, whenever I unplug a single USB device, my computer ejects EVERY SINGLE USB DEVICE (including mouse, keyboard, USB WiFi receiver, external hard drive).
It also does this random thing where some "System Interrupts" process takes over my first processor core. Going to sleep mode and restoring solves it but it still is very annoying.
Another thing my computer likes to do is give me a BSOD from my wireless driver whenever I finish downloading a big file from the internet (crappy Realtek card). Also the Windows native wifi driver causes a BSOD whenever I try to download Safari for Windows to test my website. Happened to me three times in a row and now I am suspicious...
Odd thing is I checked every possible solution: the BIOS autoboot-timer thingy is turned off, the wake-on-LAN thingy is turned off (I eventually disabled the on-board ethernet port), I even disabled all the Windows tasks because I read they could sometimes cause Windows to boot.
Also, whenever I unplug a single USB device, my computer ejects EVERY SINGLE USB DEVICE (including mouse, keyboard, USB WiFi receiver, external hard drive).
It also does this random thing where some "System Interrupts" process takes over my first processor core. Going to sleep mode and restoring solves it but it still is very annoying.
Another thing my computer likes to do is give me a BSOD from my wireless driver whenever I finish downloading a big file from the internet (crappy Realtek card). Also the Windows native wifi driver causes a BSOD whenever I try to download Safari for Windows to test my website. Happened to me three times in a row and now I am suspicious...
Mine has that thing with headphones where it sometimes plays the sound through the speakers and through the headphones.
It also makes a horrible revving sound. I've cleared out the fans with compressed air and all, but it still makes the sound. Sometimes it gets so loud you can hear it all through the house.
It also makes a horrible revving sound. I've cleared out the fans with compressed air and all, but it still makes the sound. Sometimes it gets so loud you can hear it all through the house.
Oh god, mine has some odd quirks - it's a bit old (err...5/6 years now) and is running Vista.
I can probably stop typing there for most of the quirks (sometimes memory/CPU usage of ~99% when no programs are open and everything extraneous has been shut down via Task Manager for a good few minutes - I assume this is just standard "Vista is a memory whore" stuff). But it does have some "interesting" issues:
1) Whenever I open Firefox or Internet Explorer it freezes up for a good few minutes. It's worse with multiple tabs open (that has frozen my entire system, not just the internet browsing programs); but after it has done it a couple of times it seems to sort itself out (to the point that having 30+ tabs won't freeze it (I tested)...but the one/two at the start still do).
2) My computer randomly stops reading game discs. Audio disks are fine. I have a DVD-R/Rw drive and this affects games old and new alike (from Age of Empires 1 to Arma II: Operation Arrowhead). I put the disk in and it just doesn't recognise it is there, either automatically or when told to look for it, and makes some wierd clicking noise. I can keep jiggling the disk about and opening/closing the tray and it just doesn't find it. Except for maybe once in a good 50-100 attempts when the disk will read and boot and play fine...until I open the disk tray again/restart the machine.
The drivers are fully up-to-date. The drive itself is operating fine according to multiple diagnostic programs. As I said above, audio disks and DVDs are unaffected, just games. The only help I have found online is to try shutting down + rebooting the computer with the disk in, which doesn't work (it is still once in a blue moon). New games, old games, it doesn't matter - sometimes they will work and other times they won't. No idea what is going on with that one.
3) The other day I finally got Dawn of War to run for the first time in months (see above) and I hate to restart my computer after it crashed itself...because apparently the CPU clock was running too fast and the computer killed itself to "save my system from damage". I've never "overclocked" a computer in my life (don't know how and I definitely was not fiddling with any computer settings to "accidentally" do it either), so I have no bloody idea why it did that to me. Once it was back up and running, the game didn't read any more.
4) The speakers explode. Not literally, but they make this bloody awful crackling/banging and fuzzing sound like a lorry is trying to mate with the house. Given that wiggling the wire on the volume connector makes it better/worse (and just turning them off/on usually fixes it) I'm assuming it is a dodgy wire/connector than an actual PC problem per-se, but I'm venting anyway so may as well mention it
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It really annoys me as I only have a PS2 and Xbox to game on otherwise (though I can't really run new releases, disk-drive aside, as my RAM/graphics card only just meet the "minimum specs" for things like Skyrim). Yeah, I'm not much of a gamer for someone who spends all their time on a gaming forum...
Oh, and today my e-mail account got hacked and sent a load of spam-emails to friends and family, so I had to sort out pages and pages of security stuff with MSN/Microsoft, and I now have to hope there's no latent virus that my scanners won't pick up before I trust opening my internet banking. And my computer chair broke. And I've got a chest infection. Life seriously sucks today (yeah, yeah, first-world-problems and all that).
I can probably stop typing there for most of the quirks (sometimes memory/CPU usage of ~99% when no programs are open and everything extraneous has been shut down via Task Manager for a good few minutes - I assume this is just standard "Vista is a memory whore" stuff). But it does have some "interesting" issues:
1) Whenever I open Firefox or Internet Explorer it freezes up for a good few minutes. It's worse with multiple tabs open (that has frozen my entire system, not just the internet browsing programs); but after it has done it a couple of times it seems to sort itself out (to the point that having 30+ tabs won't freeze it (I tested)...but the one/two at the start still do).
2) My computer randomly stops reading game discs. Audio disks are fine. I have a DVD-R/Rw drive and this affects games old and new alike (from Age of Empires 1 to Arma II: Operation Arrowhead). I put the disk in and it just doesn't recognise it is there, either automatically or when told to look for it, and makes some wierd clicking noise. I can keep jiggling the disk about and opening/closing the tray and it just doesn't find it. Except for maybe once in a good 50-100 attempts when the disk will read and boot and play fine...until I open the disk tray again/restart the machine.
The drivers are fully up-to-date. The drive itself is operating fine according to multiple diagnostic programs. As I said above, audio disks and DVDs are unaffected, just games. The only help I have found online is to try shutting down + rebooting the computer with the disk in, which doesn't work (it is still once in a blue moon). New games, old games, it doesn't matter - sometimes they will work and other times they won't. No idea what is going on with that one.
3) The other day I finally got Dawn of War to run for the first time in months (see above) and I hate to restart my computer after it crashed itself...because apparently the CPU clock was running too fast and the computer killed itself to "save my system from damage". I've never "overclocked" a computer in my life (don't know how and I definitely was not fiddling with any computer settings to "accidentally" do it either), so I have no bloody idea why it did that to me. Once it was back up and running, the game didn't read any more.
4) The speakers explode. Not literally, but they make this bloody awful crackling/banging and fuzzing sound like a lorry is trying to mate with the house. Given that wiggling the wire on the volume connector makes it better/worse (and just turning them off/on usually fixes it) I'm assuming it is a dodgy wire/connector than an actual PC problem per-se, but I'm venting anyway so may as well mention it
.It really annoys me as I only have a PS2 and Xbox to game on otherwise (though I can't really run new releases, disk-drive aside, as my RAM/graphics card only just meet the "minimum specs" for things like Skyrim). Yeah, I'm not much of a gamer for someone who spends all their time on a gaming forum...
Oh, and today my e-mail account got hacked and sent a load of spam-emails to friends and family, so I had to sort out pages and pages of security stuff with MSN/Microsoft, and I now have to hope there's no latent virus that my scanners won't pick up before I trust opening my internet banking. And my computer chair broke. And I've got a chest infection. Life seriously sucks today (yeah, yeah, first-world-problems and all that).
My system has a 4 minute countdown after I press the first start button before I can start teh system itself.
Some of the software I have installed sometimes complain about the CPU temps being too low.
can't think of any extra weird stuff right now
Some of the software I have installed sometimes complain about the CPU temps being too low.
can't think of any extra weird stuff right now
Usually when I unplug a USB device from my laptop, it randomly drops the sound of my browser to almost minumum volume. Nothing else, just my browser. It only seems to affect Chrome, but the only other browser I've tested it with is Explorer, so make of that what you will.
Care to share what part of CCleaner I would use to find it? I'm pretty damn bad with computers when it comes to software, I'm using it but have no idea how I would find the problem causerBeerTent said:I recommend using Ccleaner [http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/download] for this, as it searches through the registry. I install Ccleaner on all of my customer's PC's. I don't care if they want it or not.G32420NL said:If you press start and then type msconfig you can see and control startup programsJezzascmezza said:
Some programs that boot like to try and hide themselves from MSConfig. But you cannot hide in the registry... >.>
I also invite you to take a look at what's starting up on boot. There's something on your computer that's "stealing focus" to show you something. It may not actually show you anything, or it may be actually hiding while it does something and Windows thinks "Well, shit. This is doing something, the user's gotta see!" See what's running on your computer and stop it. Ccleaner may be a good start, but it also may not be the solution.YingDerpington said:
As for weird things my computer does...? Yeah, I got nothing. My laptop overheats at times, but I know why, and I know that I can no longer stop it without tearing it all apart. My desktop works as intended, and if there's anything I don't like, I change it.
Shadow copies always existed. Vista just had an easy to use interface to access them.snave said:
Also, every OS had that small gradual Decay over the years as you uninstall, re-install, update, leave Temp files laying about. Which is why you format bi-annually. But I'll agree that the "Vista ready" bullshit got out of hand, and that manufacturers needed to be shot.
No worries, follow this simple screenshot, and, uhh... Don't mind the black Bars...YingDerpington said:
The red arrows where guide you to where you can find all applications on startup. (Again, I'm not promising this will fix it.) Just as the name sounds, these applications are what starts when your computer starts.
Go through this list of shit. CCleaner has the ability to disable the entry, or outright delete it. I don't recommend deleting the entry unless it keeps enabling itself somehow after you've disabled it.
Find anything in here that doesn't sound right, that you don't know about, and do what I do... Google it! What is "IgfxTray"? Well, a quick Google search will tell you it's an Intel driver, needed for my processor and on-board card. So, I'll keep it running.
Although messing around in here can cause unexpected results, you will ALWAYS be able to bounce back by reversing your changes... (Unless you delete the entry, but don't do that!)
Other notable parts of CCleaner I use is the Cleaner tab and the Registry Tab. The registry tab might improve the speed of your Windows OS by a little bit... (Okay, a few ms, but I'm a PC speed junkie.) and the Cleaner Tab is actually pretty amazing, able to clear out the junk in the trunk. I've seen this clean a few GB and a quick analysis right now shows I can free 8.2GB, because I'm awful and I hadn't run this in a few months. (This clears cookies too, you'll have to relog back into websites unless you tell ccleaner you want to keep your cookies!)