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Post by machsabre on Jan 9, 2019 13:15:50 GMT -5
Just do yourself a favor and back everything up, and be prepared to buy a new hard drive.
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Post by SporkBot on Jan 9, 2019 19:38:45 GMT -5
Oh, I will. I just want to see if a deeper scan can turn anything up before I make any purchases (STILL defragmenting...I wonder if putting it in Sleep has made it lag while awake).
Good news is, I've had it going for more than 5 hours now without a problem. I've just reduced the number of tabs I have open and not watched any videos just to be safe.
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Post by SporkBot on Jan 10, 2019 21:14:57 GMT -5
Well, considering I apparently have over 500 gigs on my computer (over 100 of that is the video stuff for my show), and none of the individual devices at my disposal can handle all that, I'll have to individually save stuff across devices (including my old laptop, which has about 27 gigs of free space). Or buy another external drive...
Anyway, without getting into a long story about it, diagnostic scans from booting revealed everything passing, even the hard drive...BUT I did see a notification of a corrupted file. Unfortunately, any attempts at scanning the disk drive just cause the screen to black out, so I can't even find out WHICH file is corrupted.
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Post by machsabre on Jan 10, 2019 22:53:58 GMT -5
Okay... That sounds like it might be a system reinstall solution then.
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Post by SporkBot on Jan 11, 2019 10:11:14 GMT -5
Though it'd probably mean still backing up my stuff, as well as taking it in somewhere.
Sadly, I don't have a reinstall disk for my OS, and could only get it at a repair shop back in '16 because Best Buy didn't have it. And I didn't get it back for a about a month. If I could find out which file is the problem, maybe I could find it online, and reinstall. Unfortunately, any attempt at scanning the drive just results in the monitor losing the signal and the scan...probably getting interrupted.
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Post by SporkBot on Jan 12, 2019 20:33:01 GMT -5
So here's the latest in this little saga: I go to a computer shop, expecting to drop off my PC for week or a month. Clerk basically says that if it's a corrupted file, an OS reinstall is the way to go. And I can buy the OS disc I need for $10. Thank God, I can do this myself...except I can't. I call my brother-in-law for help, I hit one snag or another (because the screen is blacking out, even when I FINALLY get the reinstall going. It wasn't just blinking out over a lost signal, it threw in a notice about setting the input timing to "1920x1080, 60hz". Which it did automatically when I first hooked up the new screen. It keeps blinking to this message and blackness while I'm trying to set up my comp's name, password, etc., like it's fucking teasing me.
I'm not someone that enjoys being teased.
But finally, I get it done. My desktop is devoid of all the files and shortcuts. Nothin' but the recycle bin. There's this screen asking if I want to restore back-ups, but I put the comp to sleep because *I* am freaking exhausted (not just this whole thing, but my bro-in-law has this habit that I'm not sure he can help, of pausing, and continuing to talk while someone else is trying to talk...it didn't help). I come back to the computer a couple hours later, click Cancel on the restore, because I don't remember setting up any saving today (all my stuff's backed up elsewhere), and I didn't want to risk preserving the corrupted file. I check the resolution for the monitor aaaaaand...it's at the specifications it wanted already. Okayyy.
Oh, but that's not the end of it. Not by half. I see that the C drive has the same amount of data on it as BEFORE the reinstall. Weird, since I thought reinstalling the OS was supposed to wipe everything else. And then...
...oh, you'll love this, this is hysterical...
...and then, the monitor loses the signal, and I put it back to sleep mode before it (likely) reboots itself.
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Get it? Don't you get the joke? LAUGH WITH ME, JOCKO, LAUGH WITH ME!
HAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
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So I'm waiting on some new stuff to connect my monitor to the PC, not sure if that's going to change anything, using my Mom's comp and my phone for my online doings (because my old laptop won't connect when wired up anymore, for some reason), and the corrupt file that's been giving me so much grief might still be lurking on my machine. The only computer shop that'll be open before Monday at 9am would be Best Buy's Geek Squad, which maybe I'll call tomorrow.
Ughh.
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Post by SporkBot on Jan 15, 2019 19:30:42 GMT -5
Okay...so I dropped my desktop at a shop called Milwaukee PC to get a new graphics card (nothing too fancy, since I don't game on my comp, just a $47 unit). Including labor, it'll be around $90. And since it's a simple reinstall, it could be ready tomorrow. So if I'd dropped it off when I bought the OS disk, I might have it back by now, but it'd probably cost more to have them do it.
Speaking of my OS, I guess I goofed on the partitions portion of the reinstall, so my stuff was just moved to a Windows-dot-old folder. Now, this does make me worried that the corrupted file is still technically on the computer, but I wonder if a scan (and selection to fix) might actually work this time. But what I'm considering, is seeing if I can just restore stuff like Chrome, Photoshop, Word, and other programs I'd otherwise have to re-download (some online), but deleting the files I already have backed up. It'd probably save me a lot of time, and I can get episodes out sooner.
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Post by SporkBot on Jan 16, 2019 22:04:57 GMT -5
Woof.
Got my computer back earlier today. Scanned the Drive and it's clean. I've spent that time copying/moving from the Windows.old to appropriate files onto the computer proper. Took quite a while. I think I've done about as much as I can do, but unfortunately, I don't see Photoshop or Word or one or two other items.
Still stuff to do, but now I can post on my own computer again.
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Post by machsabre on Jan 16, 2019 23:48:58 GMT -5
So it was the graphics card all along? I'm glad to have been wrong.  |
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Post by SporkBot on Jan 17, 2019 10:34:07 GMT -5
You and me both. Kinda makes sense; I did a search for the card my comp came with, came across it's specs, and on a list of resolutions it was optimum for, all but the smallest had a red box next to it. If I read it right, the "optimum" resolution is for a screen smaller than the one I was using before.
Though I still have a ways to go. Unless there's more moving and copy/replacing to do (and I think I've exhausted Windows.old and need to delete it to open up drive space), it looks like I'll have to re-download some stuff after all (scanner software, OpenOffice some version of Word...I have a disc for the 2003 edition, but even my old laptop has 2007).
Weird thing is, I managed to move Photoshop more or less fine; I can open it from the desktop icon, and it seems more or less the same as before. But if I click on a Photoshop file I had before the reinstall, it won't open. Photoshop doesn't even show up on a list of programs for some reason. Might have to look into finding a free download of that, too.
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