kierthos: (Default)
2012-06-03 11:29 pm

*sigh*

So long Eudora. You don't seem to work under Windows 7.

Using Mozilla Thunderbird instead.

And downloading LotRO. City of Heroes, and the various Steam games will be after that.
kierthos: (Default)
2012-05-18 01:36 pm

Hrm...

It's at that stage where getting a new computer might be cheaper then upgrading the current one. I'll have to talk to one of my friends about this.

(To note, I would be upgrading for computer gaming purposes. I have the feeling, based off of my limited beta weekend experience, that The Secret World would run much better on a higher-end computer.)
kierthos: (Default)
2011-03-05 11:56 am

I have stalked the wild bad RAM and bearded it in it's lair!

(I think.)

So, looks like one of my 1 GB sticks of RAM is bad. It has been pulled and further observational testing awaits. (In other words, if my computer doesn't crash in the next several hours/couple of days, I've probably 'fixed' the problem.)

But it had to be one of the 1 GB sticks. It couldn't be one of the POS 512 MB sticks, noooooo.....

P.S. Firefox, I'm still not happy with you, even if you do put the browser tabs in the right place. You're still a goddamned memory hog. I may download you again if you fix that.
kierthos: (Default)
2011-03-04 09:21 pm

*sigh*

Okay, something is still wrong with my computer.

It's not Blue-screening any more. Nope. Just crashing outright. Just shuts down.

I can restart it in safe mode, and then restart in normal mode from there and it works fine for hours, or even a day or more, but it does crash again... that's pretty much guaranteed.

I guess I have to run memtest again, see if it is the RAM. It's possible that the test I ran earlier only checked the first stick of RAM.
kierthos: (Default)
2011-02-28 04:31 pm

I can't be certain...

but the computer crashing all the damn time seems to have been related to Firefox after all.

I have uninstalled Firefox (using Chrome now), and it hasn't crashed since. Also, obviously, I am able to use Chrome, whereas earlier, it would just immediately crash.

Now, I knew there was a huge fucking memory leak in the 3.6.* build of Firefox, but I had been using it for months before this problem.

Bizarre.

Oh, also, I do not have the flu. The doctor suspects it is just a very bad cold.
kierthos: (Default)
2010-04-08 12:36 am
Entry tags:

Well, poop

Turns out the power supply in my computer (according to the little sticker on it), is rated for 350 W max, which, on a side note is interesting, because the video card recommends a 400 W power supply.

This means that either the new video card, whatever it may be, will have to have something along the same lines in power requirements OR I buy a new power supply when I get the video card (although I have no idea how difficult it is to replace a power supply) OR I get a video card that allows for an extra (external) power supply.

I suspect the latter may be the easiest way to handle it.