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noise747
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Computer been going fine for weeks and yesterday, I loaded up Vegas and it just stopped at the splash screen and would not carry on, I tried all sorts to get it working, rebooted the computer at some point later on and blue screen of death. I eventually got into windows, but it just would not stay stable.
so I have just done a clean install and now have to start again. i thought i had a image, but I have not, so once I get everything reinstalled I will do a image using clonezilla
i am not impressed.
Computer been going fine for weeks and yesterday, I loaded up Vegas and it just stopped at the splash screen and would not carry on, I tried all sorts to get it working, rebooted the computer at some point later on and blue screen of death. I eventually got into windows, but it just would not stay stable.
so I have just done a clean install and now have to start again. i thought i had a image, but I have not, so once I get everything reinstalled I will do a image using clonezilla
i am not impressed.
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If something isn't done in the most logical fashion you can bet making money and creating jobs is the reason why!
More money down the flusher.
Are you sure the PC isn't overheating?
Fine as long as you don't want to communicate with the modern world. Surfing with IE 5.5 isn't much fun, because most sites don't support it. Flash only came out in '96 and javascript had just been invented.
I have '95 in a VM and fire it up now and then for a laugh. It's nice to hear the old start up sounds. I'm always amazed at how many websites will (half) open in IE 5.5. Fair play to the coders that try to make sites as backward compatible as possible, but there are limits.
The timespan between windows 7, 8 and 9 is pretty much the same as windows 3.1, 95 and 98. On average Microsoft has released a new OS every 2 to 3 years since Windows 1.0, it was only the rewrite of longhorn that made the gap between XP and Vista longer. As for running Windows 95 on a packard bell, I seem to recall that with 95, 98, 98SE and the abomination that was Windows ME you needed to reinstall them every few months otherwise the OS would grind to a halt as it filled itself up with rubbish and the old dos based memory management made blue screens a very common occurrence.
Good quality hardware today is far more reliable than the stuff of a couple decades ago. Back in the 80s and early 90s TVs and video recorders would regularly break down hence the number of TV repair shops that were on British high streets. Today technology is reliable enough that TV repair men have all but disappeared.
The problem with building a computer to last 20 years is that technology is constantly changing and being refined. My old Amiga 1200 still runs as well today as it did when I bought it 20 years ago but in terms of computing power you will find a modern TV remote has more processing power than an Amiga.
Have you tried deleting the desktop shortcut and then creating a new one from the program files?
I cleaned out the computer a couple of days back when i put the sound card in, use compressed air can, cleaned filters.
Machine is not over heating, 31 c at idle, fan speed about 800RPM. even when I push the machine to the max, the temperature only goes up to about 50 and the fan max is about 1300RPM, and it can go a lot faster than that.
Vegas just seemed to have got stuck at the plugins for some reason, I gave up int he end and reinstalled windows, reinstalled Vegas, now i got to reinstall the plug ins, that will take a while, then i will certainly do a image.
So-called digital computers are in fact analogue at their heart, they are a physical thing and physical things wear out.
If something is made better from the beginning then it might last longer, but will eventually go wrong.
You should have uninstalled and then reinstalled Sony Vegas. Wiping the drive when installing Windows should only be done when it's the last resort. Anyway, you've got it working again.
I've had loads of things break on me over the last few months for no reason whatsoever. A phone charger broke, the SD card in my 'phone broke, a couple of pairs of headphones broke, my Macbook Air charger broke, my tablet nearly broke, two iPod chargers broke, my tablet nearly broke... >:( I think I know who did it. I really should confront her someday
I was a bit worried so I bought a cheap 2nd laptop. Being offline these days is unthinkable.
But what really worries me is the Central Heating or the car or some other expensive item going.
Fingers crossed
Just windows being normal I suppose. Strange i thought we got over these problems with windows 7, I never thought they would come back with windows 8
I did that, I even used software that got rid of things that the windows uninstall don't. I even uninstalled the plugins first, but Vegas still got stuck.
i think I need to, I still got a problem when the machine comes out of sleep mode it reboots. I have to have a better look tomorrow
Works ok in linux.
I haven't done anything that would make it stop working, so why has it stopped ?
All I get when I click on a video is a solid green screen (I can hear the audio though)
So how do I get it to work again ??
Uninstall then reinstall Abode Flash player.
Nope. Still nothing but a green screen. >:(
I can't do that, evilc. because this is a loan laptop while my own laptop is in for repair.
I don't know how to do it anyway.
Yes you can, and, yes you do.
Just press Start and type 'system restore'.
1. Computers use almost ALL digital circuitry, apart from the audio and video outputs and part of the power supply.
2. Moving parts wear out. Parts that have no movement associated with them (e.g. no liquid or sand flowing past) don't wear out, although they could be degraded by the action of sunlight, microbes and other stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_yxUVhHRM0
just a single bit error can cause a program to behave differently. or crash the computer if in a vital operating system area .......
data integrity is quite unbelievably good, but statistically, sometimes an error will occur .....