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Blisse
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Canada3710 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-11-13 08:33:49
November 13 2011 06:58 GMT
#1
My computer hates me. The Internet hates me.

I didn't do anything.

All I get now are ridiculous crashes to desktops. Ridiculous Blue Screens of Death. Ridiculous Internet disconnections. Sometimes all at once. But never a day of gaming without them.

I load up Steam. Bam, Blue Screen of Death.

I load up Starcraft. Bam, Blue Screen of Death.

I try turning it on again. 2 minutes into the game, crash to desktop.

I try, again. 20 minutes in, Blue Screen of Death.

I continue to try. 20 minutes in. Internet connection shits itself for a second, and forces me out. I'm on a wired connection.

I can understand losing to random all-ins.

I can't understand losing to... everything.

Anyways, today was the most epic game I've played in a while. Mine out half of Metalopolis. I aggressively massed Roaches off 3 bases, and we trade armies a bunch of times while expanding. He slowly edges ahead and attacks me. I barely hold 3 or 4 times. He does a bad engagement while my Tier 3 kicks in and I pull ahead. I deny the gold, and am about to kill him one last time, I hope.

The Internet cuts off, and I lose.

Screw that. I'm going to read. Or Voltorb Flip.

***
There is no one like you in the universe.
brachester
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Australia1786 Posts
November 13 2011 07:05 GMT
#2
build a new one or stop playing. If it annoys you by playing it, why bother?
I hate all this singing
Probe1
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States17920 Posts
November 13 2011 07:05 GMT
#3

Sorry.
우정호 KT_VIOLET 1988 - 2012 While we are postponing, life speeds by
Roe
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
Canada6002 Posts
November 13 2011 07:09 GMT
#4
On November 13 2011 15:58 Blisse wrote:
Screw that. I'm going to read.

same. i'm gonna read a portrait of the artist as a young man.
you?
Trevoc
Profile Joined October 2010
United States145 Posts
November 13 2011 07:45 GMT
#5
I feel your pain bro... shitty comp has fucked me over hard before in a similar way :\
There is no limit.
Subversive
Profile Joined October 2009
Australia2229 Posts
November 13 2011 08:01 GMT
#6
Sweet. Reading is always good
#1 Great fan ~ // Khan // FlaSh // JangBi // EffOrt //
GMarshal
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States22154 Posts
November 13 2011 08:06 GMT
#7
BSOD's are not part of normal computer behavior. You may have a virus, may I suggest running malwares super anti malware and see if that finds anything? It may also be a hardware problem, but random BSOD's usually mean bad things.

If you can't find anything and still think its software, you could either try a reformat, or possibly run hijackthis and see if there is anyone on this forum who is able to analyze those logs (I have some idea, but probably not enough to help). I mean this isn;t an issue that is going to go away by reading a book, you might as well try to find a solution...
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Blisse
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Canada3710 Posts
November 13 2011 08:32 GMT
#8
On November 13 2011 17:06 GMarshal wrote:
BSOD's are not part of normal computer behavior. You may have a virus, may I suggest running malwares super anti malware and see if that finds anything? It may also be a hardware problem, but random BSOD's usually mean bad things.

If you can't find anything and still think its software, you could either try a reformat, or possibly run hijackthis and see if there is anyone on this forum who is able to analyze those logs (I have some idea, but probably not enough to help). I mean this isn;t an issue that is going to go away by reading a book, you might as well try to find a solution...


I've reformatted the hard disk and still have problems. HDD prices are too high at the moment for me to go and buy a new one. Hence I'm stuck.

Going to read Inheritance now.
There is no one like you in the universe.
ThunderGod
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
New Zealand897 Posts
November 13 2011 08:58 GMT
#9
When have HDDs ever been cheaper?
"Certain forms of popular music nowadays, namely rap and hip hop styles, are just irritating gangsters bragging about their illegal exploits and short-sighted lifestyles." - Shiverfish ~2009
IceCube
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
Croatia1403 Posts
November 13 2011 09:11 GMT
#10
On November 13 2011 17:58 ThunderGod wrote:
When have HDDs ever been cheaper?

Like a week ago? ><

@topic: Well what does your BSOD sez? I mean it does tell you what file/random stuff did cause it (just try and read it, it's somewhere close to the top after that msg thet tells you BSOD has happened and should be something like abc.sys or abc.dll file).
A quick google search might solve your problem or give you a good info on what's going on and what needs to be done to fix it.
Forever Vulture.. :(
thesideshow
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
930 Posts
November 13 2011 09:52 GMT
#11
My computer used to BSOD all the time too. Had to stop laddering for almost half a year. I feel your pain bro
OGS:levelchange
Mastermind
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
Canada7096 Posts
November 13 2011 10:02 GMT
#12
Why the hate for ladder? Your computer is the problem.
Heyoka
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Katowice25012 Posts
November 13 2011 10:22 GMT
#13
Thats a serious bad beat
@RealHeyoka | ESL / DreamHack StarCraft Lead
apalemorning
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Canada509 Posts
November 13 2011 10:25 GMT
#14
hdd's are expensive now because of the floods in thailand before the snap judgement of "LOL POOR IDIOT HDD'S ARE CHEAP"
immortal/roach is pretty good against stalkers
Davideogame
Profile Joined September 2011
United States7 Posts
November 13 2011 10:43 GMT
#15
I can understand your position completely. I don't normally mind losing, but when it's because of computer or internet problems it's infuriating. My video card kept cutting out daily for a month and I had other problems after replacing it, during which time I couldn't ladder at all. Make sure you find the right problem before you pay to fix it, otherwise you'll just get more frustrated.
Vorenius
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Denmark1979 Posts
November 13 2011 12:15 GMT
#16
The title of this blog is confusing :s

You hate ladder because your computer dies when you load up steam?
JellowLight
Profile Blog Joined October 2011
60 Posts
November 13 2011 13:00 GMT
#17
Really reset your pc to 0 or get a new one, this is not normal you know
Mobius_1
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
United Kingdom2763 Posts
November 13 2011 14:24 GMT
#18
Clean your computer's innards, reinstall everything. If that don't work give up and get a new one.

BTW I played a friend in a custom after a long break from SC2. He was in my base with Stalkers and Zealots and Immortals and I was dead as dead can be. But as I was just bming him by lifting off and landing over and over for fun, his computer crashed and I won.

I remind him every single day.
Starleague Forever. RIP KT Violet~
dementrio
Profile Joined November 2010
678 Posts
November 13 2011 14:57 GMT
#19
erratic behavior can be caused by faulty RAM. You can try switching slots for your ram sticks, try to boot it with only 1 stick (if you have more than that), moving them to unused slots, etc.
RogerX
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
New Zealand3180 Posts
November 13 2011 15:14 GMT
#20
Huh? How much are HDD's there? the cheapest you can get for 1TB is 80 dollars or something (NZD of course)

I wonder if it determines where you li- (BSOD)
Stick it up. take it up. step aside and see the world
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