2007-03-25, 05:29 | Link #41 |
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Oh no! A new problem has emerged when I'm turning off my pc "saving files....windows shutting down.." and suddenly the pc crashed and restarted weird problem...is there any logical explanation for this it happened twice....
I turned it of and then it restarted weird..... |
2007-03-25, 06:26 | Link #42 |
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Well, there may be many logical explanations. But you problem description is very vague. So giving a specific answer is quiet hard.
Again your best chance to uncover the cause for the failures, is to look up the error in the event viewer. Do you have antivirus software installed? You could test if you got infected with a virus. When you shut the PC down, certain things are written back from (RAM) memory to the system files. E.g. the registry or other intermediately RAM cached data. Should erros occur in this crucial period of the system shutdown, then things like the registry can be severely damaged. Windows tries to restore such files with older backups in the next startup (the windows restore files thing). However, the backup files are likely out of date. So there will be very likely a sever rollback of the system (means many changes, made in several windows sessions, can be lost). When Windows shuts down, and a blue screen of death occurs, then it will restart instead of finalising the shut down. The behaviour triggered by the BSOD will always override your normal system behaviour (even when shutting down).
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I think my internal hd failed on me because I defragged it like 8 times that day and might have strained itself in the process. [the effects was quite good too. my old computer was running almost 70% faster. shame] Quote:
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2007-03-25, 19:28 | Link #47 | |
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...8 times defragmented. That sounds a little bit like overkill to me. Nah I don't do disk defragmenting. (Well I use a lazy defragmenting heh, I copy all files on a free secondary hdd, beginning with the Windows system directory stuff. After this I change the drives in the PC. Finally some recovery console fixboot/fixmbr, and the thing runs like new. If everything runs fine, I format the "old" drive (copying... writes files sequential)). But storing you torrentr to an external disk is a good way to outsource it from the system drives. Btw. is your external hdd USB1.x or USB2.0? If it is 1.x I would not be very concerned about stressing the hdd, USB 1.x usually is too slow to really stress a hdd. With USB 2.0 things are different.
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2007-03-25, 21:05 | Link #48 | |
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USB 2.0. Blazing fast. I play the downloads from there.. I have no problems accessing the files from the external just that with an ailing laptop some of the bigger files.. like lets say a 1920x1080 res episode slows down significantly but thats because I dont have a proper graphic cards [integrated intel...].
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I'll post my system specs. From DirectX Diagnostic Tool MS Windows XP Home Edition SP2 Intel Pentium M 1.50GHz Memory 504MB RAM Page file: 497MB used, 730MB available --- Mobile Intel 915GM/GMS, 910GML Express Internal 96MB memory Current display mode: 1920x1200 (32 bit) (75hz) -- From MSinfo (System Information) Total physical memory: 512MB Available physical memory: 49.15MB Total virtual memory: 2GB Available virtual memory: 1.96GB [Im not running anything else other than mozilla/azureus for now] Page file space: 1.20GB I think I have way too much available virtual memory Also I made a mistake when I reformatted my hard drive for a dual boot WinXp and Ubuntu. I have an 40gb internal and partitioned it into to.. One is 17gb, the other is 10gb. I am missing ~8gb, it shows in disk management but I can't assign a drive letter for it. It says healthy but unknown partition. oh well. Last edited by tritoch; 2007-03-25 at 21:58. |
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2007-03-30, 22:15 | Link #50 |
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This is kinda annoying cause I think every day my pc will crash once Is this a sign or something??? Oh yeah haven't updated my windows still even if it's a original copy...
And the most scariest part here is that I think when your pc crash there's a small chance that your files might get corrupt..(is the rar files included in the corruption?) Oh yeah my pc crash sometimes if I surf the net and sometimes when I shutdown pc and the most weirdest part when I restart my pc it crashes..and Im like WTF.. haha |
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2007-03-30, 23:20 | Link #52 |
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If the files were accessed read only while the crash occured no problem. Otherwise from corrupt MBR entry (for that file) to data alteration everything can happen. Usually files like the rar stuff are accessed read only. But many of the system files are accessed in read/write (modify). The same applies for some stuff you are working on in applications.
But usually the most affected files, are windows system files... and the executables you are currently running.
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2007-03-30, 23:43 | Link #53 | |
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2007-03-31, 01:52 | Link #54 | |
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@Jinto Lin and WanderingKnight thanks for the info by the way...! |
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2007-03-31, 15:18 | Link #58 | |
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I use Ad-Aware and Spybot. Spybot gives you a passive system-level protection called TeaTimer (I don't use that), and it also allows you to "immunize" your web browsers against known malicious content. It supports Opera, IE, and when I had FireFox installed I'm pretty sure it picked up on that, too.
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You just restored your system, so I'd say that now is the perfect time to go through a big update process. If the update messes something up (and it shouldn't) then at least you won't lose too much in terms of customization. Your data should not be affected, as an error in the update process would just damage the operating system, and could require that you reinstall the OS. If you're really worried, back your data up. You have two hard drives, don't you? Unless they're both filled to the max, you should be able to do this pretty easily.
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2007-03-31, 21:05 | Link #59 | |
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@SeijiSensei and WanderingKnight thanks again!!! |
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2007-04-01, 03:29 | Link #60 |
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Depends on your system and internet speed; your system will need to download all of the updates (it won't happen at anywhere near your max speed if you do it via Automatic Updates). HD speed and processor speed also count for a lot. If you need to install SP2 and a host of other updates, I'd think maybe 20-40 minutes.
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