*gasp pant*

[The Waffle King]

well, then. i just had a mighty big scare. its about 8:30 in the morn and i wake up to find my computer off (i rarely turn it off at night) i start it up but it just keeps crashing, it can barely make it through the login screen before restarting. i start in safe mode (which it runs in for some reason) and clean stuff out and run my usual cleaning programs and try again, still crashes. so i decide that it might be a hardware problem and open up the case. everything looks fine untill i pull out the sticks of RAM. on one stick, two of the connectors are black. this was followed by about a minute straing at the RAM stick and muttering many explitives. after blowing out the dust and checking all the cable connections i decided to switch the sticks to different slots, maybe the stick is fine but the slot is fried. this time the thing doesnt even get to the windows loading screen, its just sits at a black screen. at this point i kinda start to freak out that i just destroyed my $120 of ram and even more expensive motherboard. in desperation i check all the connections again and put the ram back into its original slots, pressed the button, and hoped it worked. to my delight and utter confusion it works. even with blackened RAM and a slightly melted slot it still runs at its full RAM capacity. I might be upgrading my computer sooner than i thought because i have no idea how long this will hold out. what an exciting morning its been.

[prodigi]

holy crap - lol

well recently my computer started to have a HEARTATTACK everytime i tried to do any editing in Premiere (more so than usual), it was so bad that when i clicked on a really CRAPPY quality clip it took a full 30 seconds to load it

so i figured it must be the harddrives filling up. A quick check tells me they both have at least 80% free space. Ok, i think, let's run a defrag. I run a defrag which does jack all simply because i defrag every 2 weeks anyway. This is where i start to panic. Not wanting to have to rebuild again, i start uninstalling programs i don't need. This does nothing. I then think that it might be something internal. Pop the case off, check all the slots to the Harddrives, etc, everything seems to be perfect. I then install a special program that runs through my entire Registry, cleaning out EVERYTHING except the stuff vital to running windows and compress what's left. Still not working. I then uninstall EVERYTHING but Premiere, AMVapp, and a few codecs. STILL NOTHING!!!!!! All of this has taken place over an entire week, which also includes me ringing up a few people i know who all say the exact thing, "you're gonna have to format". I therefore decide to format the next day. After coming home from school the next day i am just preparing to format when i realise something. The day it started going really slow was the day i registered Pegasus Imaging's M-JPEG PicVideo codec. This is the codec that makes really crappy quality videos to edit with. The reason i registered it was because everytime you use it it comes up with a warning message, and i wanted to mass convert stuff overnight but didn't want to have to wake up every half hour to say "yes" to it's prompt. So i uninstall this tiny little one program of 256Kb. Behold the rebirth of my computer >_<

so i reinstalled it, re-registered it to convert some files, uninstalled it again, reinstalled it but now use the unregistered copy to decompress the files.

needless to say... I HATE MY COMPUTER!!!!

[The Waffle King]

that is 100 times more frustrating that what happened to me. something so small screwing up so much. aaaaaaarg! >.<

[SqiKy kLeen]

Bleh, tell me about computer issues....

Ive had to reformat my hard drive 5 times in the past few months, the latest of these being just last week, when a freak Nero 5 glitch caused my OS to not recognize my plug-and-play drivers for my removable storage devices, which I have three of.

For a moment, I had thought that my brand new DVD burner might have been ruined. Thankfully, this was not the case.