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On July 21 2014 03:08 Incognoto wrote:
Nah, it installed itself without going through UAC, or else I never would have allowed it to install. Scary huh?
Well, if you think about where that virus lives (the Recycling bin folder under the directory structure) it doesn't really need permissions to "install" there - I think that's a default location that doesn't require much to have access too it. It's been a favorite place for viruses to install because it is relatively easy to hide and generally any user has access to it - it's part of the file management system Windows uses. (This is non-technical, and maybe wrong, but it's a place I've had to dig into more than once to fix other people's computers.)
And Uni computers are the worst virus ridden whores in the entirety of the computer world. If they have protection, it's been broken by someone trying to do what they can on their own PC. And it's had more things shoved in it than a dumpster. Seriously, I think the only viruses I ever got on my personal computers were from floppy disks that I used in the computer labs. (There are grades of bad, of course - library computers are usually the worst.) (Also, I just dated myself.)
Security Essentials I don't think installs by default, but you can download it for free from Microsoft. I haven't noticed it as being significantly better than or worse than any of the "free" antivirus options that you can actually put some trust in, and it doesn't do annoying things like change your default browser, home page, search settings, etc. I don't think it even wants you to download some bloated crapware alongside, either - but it's been awhile since I installed it so I could have just skipped that section of the install and forgotten about it.
It's a minimal step, and it won't protect you from everything, but combined with decent habits it can help out in case of oops.
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On July 21 2014 12:58 felisconcolori wrote:
And Uni computers are the worst virus ridden whores in the entirety of the computer world.
For the public PCs at my Uni, they restored the PCs from an image at every single boot (meaning it ran outside of Windows). So in a way the admins completely gave up on trying to battle infections. 
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On July 21 2014 10:37 Sovano wrote:
That's fine if it's overkill since I'm sure my brother will probably divulge into other games in the future. He already has a desktop for gaming too, so this is just a portable option for him. Any ideas on how to determine how much watts you would use on average though? The battery is only 48W, so I'd imagine it's roughly a few hours if I were to guess.
If he's gaming on it then at the very maximum he might get 2 hours out of using just the battery.
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On July 21 2014 23:38 Ropid wrote:Show nested quote +On July 21 2014 12:58 felisconcolori wrote:
And Uni computers are the worst virus ridden whores in the entirety of the computer world. For the public PCs at my Uni, they restored the PCs from an image at every single boot (meaning it ran outside of Windows). So in a way the admins completely gave up on trying to battle infections.
I'm pretty sure mine did that, too. We also had 5-15 minute login times because of some kind of huge network transfer, but I don't remember why anymore.
It's only a matter of time until it's thin clients for all. My university was already pretty heavy into virtualization before I left.
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On July 22 2014 06:35 Craton wrote:Show nested quote +On July 21 2014 23:38 Ropid wrote:On July 21 2014 12:58 felisconcolori wrote:
And Uni computers are the worst virus ridden whores in the entirety of the computer world. For the public PCs at my Uni, they restored the PCs from an image at every single boot (meaning it ran outside of Windows). So in a way the admins completely gave up on trying to battle infections. I'm pretty sure mine did that, too. We also had 5-15 minute login times because of some kind of huge network transfer, but I don't remember why anymore. It's only a matter of time until it's thin clients for all. My university was already pretty heavy into virtualization before I left.
Thin clients or overlays. Maybe we can go back to the 80s when some computers had the entire OS on a ROM chip. Except then the connected media gets viruses... and the really amazing hackers figure out how to stealthily inject their code onto the EEPROM.
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You can already boot OSes (including W8) from thumb drives.
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I periodically hear something on my rig turn on and off. It sounds very much like how it sounds when I restart the computer.
It doesn't seem to have a spike in CPU usage (task manager).
I'm positive it isn't a fan because I spent 20 minutes staring into the different fans when it made the sound.
Any idea what the problem could be?
PS. It seems to freeze momentarily while it clicks on and off.
Memory check was clean and so was the virus scan.
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That might be the HDD stopping or starting. If you want to disable that, instead set it up so it's always spinning, you can go to the power options in the Windows control panel, then go and configure the details about the power profile you are currently using.
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Thank you very much. I think it fixed the problem.
Just as a side note it was set at 20 minutes before I changed it but it was definitely shorter than 20 minutes in between the noises.
Does running multiple HDDs (2-3) hinder the performance of the computer?
I was thinking of adding one to my single HDD so that I can have an active spare to switch into in case one fails.
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I think it might even improve the performance if different programs use different HDDs at the same time instead of trying to access a single one.
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The problem is persisting.
It now comes in spurts of 5-7 resets before it stops.
However the freezing during the period has stopped.
Is it a signal of a growing problem or just a minor annoyance?
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I'm looking into getting a UPS.
My specs:
+ Show Spoiler +Asrock Z77 Formula OC
3770K (4.5Ghz @ 1.3V [estimated, i don't remember])
2x 8GB DDR3 RAM
2x 5400 RPM HDD
2x 7200 RPM HDD
3x SSD
2x GTX 780 6GB
1x Blu-Ray / DVD / CD combo drive
7x Case fans
And a couple of things powered off USB.
This thing is supposed to handle 1000W for ~7 minutes at I guess full load. I'm not usually running full load, but that should be fine either way. Do you think this is about right or overkill?
http://www.apc.com/resource/include/techspec_index.cfm?base_sku=SMT1500&tab=models
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Now it is turning on and off like an emergency shut down.
I'm about to reinstall Windows to see if it is a firmware/virus problem.
Is there any other solution to see if it is a hardware problem before I do this?
I'm assuming the hardware most likely to have the problem is the HDD, followed by the powersupply and the motherboard.
Is that assumption correct?
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Just a small thing. Whenever MC or Artosis is streaming, I can't watch it in Chrome. They stream from something other than Twitch. I think it's called Azubu.tv or something.
I can watch it in firefox, but am I the only one who is having this problem? Is there a fix? I really don't like using Firefox.
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On July 24 2014 22:52 yido wrote:
Now it is turning on and off like an emergency shut down.
I'm about to reinstall Windows to see if it is a firmware/virus problem.
Is there any other solution to see if it is a hardware problem before I do this?
I'm assuming the hardware most likely to have the problem is the HDD, followed by the powersupply and the motherboard.
Is that assumption correct?
What did you do with that HDD shut down setting? Here's a screenshot that shows how it should look:
http://superuser.com/questions/146696/disable-turn-off-hard-disk-after-in-windows-7
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On July 24 2014 23:10 Mozdk wrote:
Just a small thing. Whenever MC or Artosis is streaming, I can't watch it in Chrome. They stream from something other than Twitch. I think it's called Azubu.tv or something.
I can watch it in firefox, but am I the only one who is having this problem? Is there a fix? I really don't like using Firefox.
Works for me in Chrome (and I can't even try in Firefox as I don't have Flash installed over there). Maybe there's something going on for you with Adblock filters blocking something?
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On July 24 2014 23:19 Ropid wrote:Show nested quote +On July 24 2014 23:10 Mozdk wrote:
Just a small thing. Whenever MC or Artosis is streaming, I can't watch it in Chrome. They stream from something other than Twitch. I think it's called Azubu.tv or something.
I can watch it in firefox, but am I the only one who is having this problem? Is there a fix? I really don't like using Firefox. Works for me in Chrome (and I can't even try in Firefox as I don't have Flash installed over there). Maybe there's something going on for you with Adblock filters blocking something?
You're right. It was Adblock. Thanks.
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On July 24 2014 14:22 Craton wrote:I'm looking into getting a UPS. My specs: + Show Spoiler +Asrock Z77 Formula OC
3770K (4.5Ghz @ 1.3V [estimated, i don't remember])
2x 8GB DDR3 RAM
2x 5400 RPM HDD
2x 7200 RPM HDD
3x SSD
2x GTX 780 6GB
1x Blu-Ray / DVD / CD combo drive
7x Case fans
And a couple of things powered off USB.
This thing is supposed to handle 1000W for ~7 minutes at I guess full load. I'm not usually running full load, but that should be fine either way. Do you think this is about right or overkill? http://www.apc.com/resource/include/techspec_index.cfm?base_sku=SMT1500&tab=models
From what I could find, it seems its battery pack is two 18 Ah batteries strapped together. One of those batteries is perhaps $40 or so, so the replacement battery pack is worth about $80? If you skip your full-load for several minutes idea, the smaller UPS models use something like 7 Ah batteries. Those are $20 or so.
To get around that issue that a tiny UPS can't really keep things running, I've set my stuff up to hibernate when the UPS software thinks the battery is nearly empty. That should make it so there's no work lost if I can't manage to get around to close all stuff.
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When playing games, occasionally the whole computer freezes and the sound loops. I have to completely restart the computer.
Anyone have any ideas what could cause that (computer freezes and the sound loops)?
If it doesn't freeze, sometimes the screen goes on/off. (Windows displays display driver has stopped and restarted) which I guess is due to the Video Card.
I tried several different driver versions.
Same issue.
What I did was set the time display driver would restart from 2 seconds to 1 second. (I added an entry to the registry for TdrDelay and set it to 1.)
This did seem to reduce the amount of hard freezes my computer has gotten from playing games and replaced it with simply the screen going off/on (driver restarting I assume but I never get to see see if there is a message in time). Though even with a 1 second delay, my computer still freezes every other day or so of playing.
Any ideas?
I dusted computer. GPU reaches a max of 85C under load (CPU is relatively cool too).
Due to the display driver restarting issue, it likely a problem with the video card?
I might just try replacing it again but I want to know for sure.
I've had "Display driver has stopped and restarted" even on old games but those happen like once every three months (it's really rare for old games). Also I have never had the computer freeze on me for older games (just display driver has stopped and restarted but never a freeze).
For more modern games, it happens every two-three days (freezes). Also sometimes it happens within 30 minutes of of starting up and playing the game and other times it takes 8 hours of playing. On occasion, sometimes I won't get freezes for several days too (but on average it happens once every two to three days or so).
Also the computer never freezes unless I am playing a game (and only a modern graphical intensive game). So from all this, does it seem the problem is with the video card or could it be due to something else?
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My pc gets bluescreens randomly but if then only always by watching twitch stream. Happens ~20 times yearly. Never if i play sc2/d3 or watch youtube or whatever, only twitch stream.
Edit:
BCCode: 1a
BCP1: 0000000000000403
BCP2: FFFFF680000401E8
BCP3: D94000002EE71825
BCP4: FFFFF6800003A420
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