Thread of PC Woes, Troubles, Problems, and Issues

BeoTeK said:
You know, when I was in Operations I was above everything (firewalls, DNS servers, etc). Now that I am among the working class I am now experiencing all the issues that are affecting us (the business). From constant VPN disconnection and reconnections to constant DNS issues. This network is seriously a joke. And the worst is I sit here twiddling my thumbs waiting for services to be restored, when I ask the others they say "we've gotten used to it, just wait 25-30min for it to be restored".
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Aah DNS issues, commonly bought on by people who have no idea of how to properly implement DNS...its real simple actually. I prefer to do mine , kinda like this:

DNS Server for company.TLD as a split horizon DNS server and DNS server for company.int with zone transfer between the internal zone of company.tld and company.int this keeps my public IPs public and my private IPs private and also ensures that (for instance) a FTP in the DMZ that might have a public IP and private IP or some NAT configuration can still be accessed as ftp.company.tld from internally or externally on the CORRECT IP address based on the originating DNS query.

Where it can become tricky is with zone delegation, but again. These be basics that i see a lot of sysadmins simply failing to understand.
 
my fsking PC started some new bullshit yesterday

was playing PS4 when I started hearing a clicking sound. You know that hard drive click/spinup sound when you switch your computer on?
that, plus the lights were coming and going. like it was trying to start in an endless loop every second.

left it off for a while and came back to test and it booted up fine. then gave some blue screens, got it back up and working perfectly fine, but I keep hearing that USB device sound and it keeps saying USB device not recognised. also running windows 10.

any thoughts?
 
BeoTeK said:
my fsking PC started some new bullshit yesterday

was playing PS4 when I started hearing a clicking sound. You know that hard drive click/spinup sound when you switch your computer on?
that, plus the lights were coming and going. like it was trying to start in an endless loop every second.

left it off for a while and came back to test and it booted up fine. then gave some blue screens, got it back up and working perfectly fine, but I keep hearing that USB device sound and it keeps saying USB device not recognised. also running windows 10.

any thoughts?
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That sounds like your hard drive may be on its way out dude, like its slowly corrupting some of the windows files at the moment that doesn't really sound like a software problem since it worked then went back to being problematic.
 
BeoTeK said:
my fsking PC started some new bullshit yesterday

was playing PS4 when I started hearing a clicking sound. You know that hard drive click/spinup sound when you switch your computer on?
that, plus the lights were coming and going. like it was trying to start in an endless loop every second.

left it off for a while and came back to test and it booted up fine. then gave some blue screens, got it back up and working perfectly fine, but I keep hearing that USB device sound and it keeps saying USB device not recognised. also running windows 10.

any thoughts?
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Back up everything. And I'd get a new drive soon. Check out clonezilla or something similar to clone your drive, and since you may get a larger one, you can make an additional partition for the extra space, or grow the existing file system.
 
BeoTeK said:
my fsking PC started some new bullshit yesterday

was playing PS4 when I started hearing a clicking sound. You know that hard drive click/spinup sound when you switch your computer on?
that, plus the lights were coming and going. like it was trying to start in an endless loop every second.

left it off for a while and came back to test and it booted up fine. then gave some blue screens, got it back up and working perfectly fine, but I keep hearing that USB device sound and it keeps saying USB device not recognised. also running windows 10.

any thoughts?
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Run hardware diags, specifically disk diags. That HDD is dying dude.
 
Hey guys

So, I've got a serious issue with my PC, and i'm about to throw it into the Atlantic ocean if I can't get it fixed.

My PC crashes during gameplay. Any game I play for more than 5 minutes will crash the PC. There's no error, no BSOD, no nothing. The sound loops, the screen turns black, and after a few seconds like this, the PC restarts.

First it was suspected that Windows could be corrupt, so I formatted and installed a brand new version of Windows 10 on the PC, but the crashes were still happening.

I've tried almost everything I can possibly think of. I've installed the latest drivers, I've uninstalled and reinstalled all drivers, but nothing. I then thought it would be overheating, so I installed CPUID HWMonitor and ran HeavyLoad to stress test the shit out of my PC. The CPU would reach temps of 69C, but no crashes. The CPU stress test was run for more than 20 minutes, with temps staying stable at 69C under heavy load for the CPU. So my thought was that it's not CPU.

So I installed FurMark to stress test the GPU, and sure enough the test would run for anything between 2-5 minutes before the PC crashed completely again. Temperatures of the GPU would max out at 69C again, before the PC would crash. My GPU is a Asus GTX 660 TI, and according to the internet that temp is still okay and shouldn't crash the system

So then it must be PSU then...the card is not getting enough power then. Well, there is a brand new, Corsair VS650w PSU in the PC, and both connectors are in the GPU. I don't know how else to test this further though. It may be that, but I've already paid for a new PSU for the damn machine.

Normal use of the PC doesn't result in any crashes at all, it's just in pretty much any game I've tested so far. I just got my PC back from being repaired and it sucks that it's not working. What else can I do? What do you guys think?
 
Maybe try and pinch a mates gpu for a quick test to rule it out completely. Same thing happened to my brother except it crashed at random intervals. Exact same symptoms which turned out to be the motherboard.
 
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[MENTION=9789]DieGrootHammer[/MENTION] Yeah I think what Reavs suggest would work well, if there is someone close by that you can quickly borrow a GPU from to test with.

Does the crash happen as soon as the GPU reaches 69 degC, or is that just the max temperature during the test before the crash occurs?
I once had a GPU (think it was a GTX 570) that would restart my PC as soon as it hit 81 degC, although it was supposed to run to higher temps than that. My PSU was fine and more than powerful enough to handle the card. I never got it fixed though :/
 
[MENTION=9789]DieGrootHammer[/MENTION] download Hiren's boot CD or Ultimate Boot CD and boot from either of those and run full diags on your system. It's likely either your Psu, motherboard or gpu that is fried.
 
Some more context is perhaps needed. So my PC had an unfortunate event a few months ago, where I tried to turn it on, and it tripped the earth leakage switch on my apartment DB board. After this the PC didn't want to turn on again. I assumed that the PSU had gone, so I got a new one, put it into the machine, only to discover that the machine was getting power, all the lights and stuff was coming on, but no signal was sent to the monitor. There was no error noises, no beeps, nothing. Just blackness. The PC was sent to Joker as he said he will sort it out. After months of testing and checking, a mate of his finally were able to get it going again. It was sent back to me, and now testing it further I'm getting this issue. Note that no other components except the PSU was changed.

Reavs said:
Maybe try and pinch a mates gpu for a quick test to rule it out completely. Same thing happened to my brother except it crashed at random intervals. Exact same symptoms which turned out to be the motherboard.
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[MENTION=2883]Nimatek[/MENTION] will be able to assist, as I am currently bribing him for help with braaivleis and braai broodjies...will test that and check

Blazzok said:
[MENTION=9789]DieGrootHammer[/MENTION] Yeah I think what Reavs suggest would work well, if there is someone close by that you can quickly borrow a GPU from to test with.

Does the crash happen as soon as the GPU reaches 69 degC, or is that just the max temperature during the test before the crash occurs?
I once had a GPU (think it was a GTX 570) that would restart my PC as soon as it hit 81 degC, although it was supposed to run to higher temps than that. My PSU was fine and more than powerful enough to handle the card. I never got it fixed though :/
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Looking at some tests I've done, it doesn't seem to be always when the card reaches 69C. It will be there for a minute or two before the crash happens, and sometimes the crash will happen at temps a lit lower even. Which is why I didn't suspect overheating as a reason for issue

PsychoFish said:
[MENTION=9789]DieGrootHammer[/MENTION] download Hiren's boot CD or Ultimate Boot CD and boot from either of those and run full diags on your system. It's likely either your Psu, motherboard or gpu that is fried.
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Thanks for the tip. I'll try that tonight and give an update.
 
PsychoFish said:
Basically you want to run stress tests, you'll quickly pick up the faulty component.

Also, have you checked Windows event viewer? Anything critical there?
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Yeah that what I was trying to do with running HeavyLoad and FurMark to check the CPU and GPU by stressing them. Stressing the CPU never got any crashes, but stressing the GPU did.

Also I checked now the event log, and although I'm not really sure what I'm looking for, the critical errors that I did find were all stating that the system recovered from an unexpected restart. No real other info is given
 
DieGrootHammer said:
Yeah that what I was trying to do with running HeavyLoad and FurMark to check the CPU and GPU by stressing them. Stressing the CPU never got any crashes, but stressing the GPU did.

Also I checked now the event log, and although I'm not really sure what I'm looking for, the critical errors that I did find were all stating that the system recovered from an unexpected restart. No real other info is given
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Yeah, but you were running those tests with a driver loaded, which can skew results. Using something like Hirens or UBCD and running a GPU stress test with no Windows interference will just confirm if its a hardware issue or a driver issue.
 
PsychoFish said:
Yeah, but you were running those tests with a driver loaded, which can skew results. Using something like Hirens or UBCD and running a GPU stress test with no Windows interference will just confirm if its a hardware issue or a driver issue.
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Ah that makes sense. Thanks I'll try that tonight.
 
So, yesterday I did a last test run of my HD7850:

> Reinstalling (into case)
> Swapping out cables
> Trying a different port on the card
> Trying a different port on my monitor
> Starting through safe mode uninstalling the card, then restarting normally
> Even uninstalling programs I felt may be interfering with the card

Problem persisted.

A brief explanation of what takes place (in case some of you have experienced this before):

1. PC starts up
2. Loads up past POST
3. Loads "Loading Windows" screen
4. Takes longer that normally booting into Windows
5. Eventually loads "Welcome" screen, but, horizontal pixelated lines across certain areas of the screen.
5. Cuts to a 'Windows Blue/Black' screen, not BSOD
6. Idles

I remove the card, use onboard (on CPU) graphics chip:

1. Windows booting is normal
2. Loading into Windows is normal
3. Everything works

I inserted my old 8800GT, and it worked for around 10 mins before crapping out. Baring in mind, the card was screaming.
I did not expect it to work, tbh.

My best deduction so far is:

The PCI-E slot is faulty
The card is faulty

I intend to bring it in to work tomorrow to have it checked. That is my last resort.
 
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8sh said:
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could be faulty PSU as well

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DieGrootHammer said:
Some more context is perhaps needed. So my PC had an unfortunate event a few months ago, where I tried to turn it on, and it tripped the earth leakage switch on my apartment DB board. After this the PC didn't want to turn on again. I assumed that the PSU had gone, so I got a new one, put it into the machine, only to discover that the machine was getting power, all the lights and stuff was coming on, but no signal was sent to the monitor. There was no error noises, no beeps, nothing. Just blackness. The PC was sent to Joker as he said he will sort it out. After months of testing and checking, a mate of his finally were able to get it going again. It was sent back to me, and now testing it further I'm getting this issue. Note that no other components except the PSU was changed.
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dammit man! sort your life out! Extra-Life is around the corner! :p
 
MalicE said:
dammit man! sort your life out! Extra-Life is around the corner! :p
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At the moment there is a very real possibility that I'll have to leave the group as it doesn't seem that it can be fixed. My problem has been narrowed down to a faulty GPU, and I simply don't have to cash to get a new one right now.
 
DieGrootHammer said:
At the moment there is a very real possibility that I'll have to leave the group as it doesn't seem that it can be fixed. My problem has been narrowed down to a faulty GPU, and I simply don't have to cash to get a new one right now.
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well that's what the group is for, support :D

Bass has already blown through 2 GPU's via the group. Sure we can hook you up with a loaner ;)
 
8sh said:
So, yesterday I did a last test run of my HD7850:

> Reinstalling (into case)
> Swapping out cables
> Trying a different port on the card
> Trying a different port on my monitor
> Starting through safe mode uninstalling the card, then restarting normally
> Even uninstalling programs I felt may be interfering with the card

Problem persisted.

A brief explanation of what takes place (in case some of you have experienced this before):

1. PC starts up
2. Loads up past POST
3. Loads "Loading Windows" screen
4. Takes longer that normally booting into Windows
5. Eventually loads "Welcome" screen, but, horizontal pixelated lines across certain areas of the screen.
5. Cuts to a 'Windows Blue/Black' screen, not BSOD
6. Idles

I remove the card, use onboard (on CPU) graphics chip:

1. Windows booting is normal
2. Loading into Windows is normal
3. Everything works

I inserted my old 8800GT, and it worked for around 10 mins before crapping out. Baring in mind, the card was screaming.
I did not expect it to work, thb.

My best deduction so far is:

The PCI-E slot is faulty
The card is faulty

I intend to bring it in to work tomorrow to have it checked. That is my last resort.
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Have you uninstalled the drivers for the Radeon and tried older/newer drivers?

Also, did this just happen all of a sudden on the next boot up?

The one sentence confuses me. Can you boot into safe mode just fine while the GPU is installed?
 
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