A buddy of mine has been having some utterly bizarre issues with his upgraded build: Gaming consistently causes his video card to crash. This problem is not present in any other use case—other GPU-intensive tasks such as BTC mining does not trigger instability. Isolating and stress-testing individual components fails to identify the culprit. Card itself continues to run fine in the old motherboard/CPU setup. Rolling back drivers, undervolting, etc. makes no difference. Help?
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posted by pinsomniac
on Apr 23, 2013 -
6 answers
I've been on a cross country road trip for over 35 days, originally departing from Los Angeles. While driving back home, I got caught in a rain/thunderstorm in Louisiana and rear-ended the car in front of me. I only have liability insurance, so the other party is taken care of but I have to take care of my own busted car. I'm wondering if it's worth getting it fixed up or just getting a new car once I get back home.
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posted by xtine
on Jan 11, 2013 -
14 answers
I just bought a new iPad 4 in Japan (along with a logitech keyboard case), and I frikkin love it! It unfortunately, however, tends to crash at the most inopportune times - I do not want this to turn into a dealbreaker.
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posted by Kamelot123
on Jan 2, 2013 -
8 answers
How much extra safety would a crash helmet offer a highway driver wearing a seatbelt?
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posted by Egg Shen
on Dec 5, 2012 -
16 answers
I can't make Spore run on my Macbook Pro. My 9 year old is nonplussed. Please help...he's getting pouty....
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posted by digitalprimate
on Nov 20, 2012 -
12 answers
What is the best way for me to restore my Macbook Air to full functionality, given that the it won't boot due to a corrupted file?
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posted by Philosopher Dirtbike
on Jul 24, 2012 -
5 answers
While on Firefox (12.0) for my Mac (OS 10.5.8) I hit a mail link which caused my Firefox window to open rapidly window on window ad infinitum. It locked up my mac and I couldn't even get to Firefox Preferences/Tools etc without multiple windows opening on top. I force- quit. I restarted and this did not help. I uninstalled an reinstalled and this did not help. It hit about midnight and stupid and tired, I deleted my entire profile....The whole blasted thing in a rash moment.
So unlike available articles on Mozilla for retrieving missing/lost/messed with profiles mine is simply bye-bye by my own hand. I emailed Mozilla and got these instructions:
"Try to delete the profiles.ini file
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/profiles.ini_file
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Firefox"
I don't have the ini file in the locations specified nor elsewhere.
This link did not seem to help, either. I tried entering a terminal command for Firefox (cannot find page for that now) and no luck. If I click on Firefox, it says "Firefox is already open, only one copy can be in use." (Nothing else is open and I even restarted the computer a few times.)
Any ideas? I like Firefox the best and would like to use it. And yes, I was an idiot to delete things so will take appropriate lashings.
posted by snap_dragon
on May 13, 2012 -
17 answers
My W7 laptop has an InPageCoFire error, and Windows Explorer crashes. Am I hooped?
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posted by KokuRyu
on Mar 20, 2012 -
2 answers
My home-made HTPC running Windows 7 shuts down without warning, first after prolonged use playing HD (720) videos with VLC. Then it stopped twenty minutes into an episode, and switching to Media Player Classic seemed to be the answer. Then the computer shut down after about 20 minutes of simply being idle. And there's never a "sudden shutdown" error message when I reboot. How do I diagnose this, or what could be wrong?
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posted by filthy light thief
on Feb 22, 2012 -
20 answers
I have a new Macbook running Lion- 15", 2.2 Ghz i7, with 16 GB of RAM and a 240 GB SSD. It's fancy, and crazy-fast. Except for the constant crashes. Any idea as to why it might be thinking I am improperly ejecting disks when there is no disk attached?
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posted by rockindata
on Jan 26, 2012 -
13 answers
Microsoft Word 2002, running on Windows XP, has started crashing when opening particular documents, but not others. Any troubleshooting advice?
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posted by russilwvong
on Nov 30, 2011 -
5 answers
Help me understand how Skyrim crashing on one PC causes other PCs on my network to hiccup.
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posted by Edogy
on Nov 25, 2011 -
5 answers
I installed a new video card and power supply in a new desktop computer, but the machine had problems (restarting occasionally for no obvious reason over a few weeks) and now the card seems dead. I need help figuring out what has gone wrong!
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posted by ZeroDivides
on Nov 24, 2011 -
9 answers
Who wrote about a change in perspective due to a near-miss in a private airplane he was piloting?
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posted by morganw
on Nov 12, 2011 -
6 answers
Computer appears to be dead. Before I go and replace it, is there anything else I can do to try and bring it back to life?
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posted by NotMyselfRightNow
on Sep 9, 2011 -
13 answers
I recently had to reinstall Windows (XP) on my PC to kill some malware. Subsequently, I reinstalled Sony Vegas Movie Studio 9, which I've been using for the last couple of years on this machine. Today I went to open one of my video edits for the first time... but Vegas chokes on it. Can you help me figure out why? Error log after the jump.
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posted by Artifice_Eternity
on Aug 29, 2011 -
11 answers
I need to reinstall Mac OS X on my 2011 MacBook Pro urgently, but my install disc is unreadable. Previous versions of MacOS won't install on this laptop, as it requires a more recent build. What are my options?
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posted by baggers
on Jul 4, 2011 -
11 answers
My PC is running slow. So I went to ProcessLibrary.com to check the programs running in task manager. I've also got Malwarebytes and AVG Anti-Virus running. But these programs aren't impenetrable. Consequently, I've learned there are many legitimate programs that have double identities.
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posted by CollectiveMind
on Jun 27, 2011 -
14 answers
I have some sort of video driver issues affecting Chrome on two different machines (2 different makers) using an i3 chipset. Any ideas how I can fix this problem?
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posted by KokuRyu
on Jun 15, 2011 -
7 answers
I'm reformatting my system and installing Windows 7 my computer this weekend, and I'd like tips, tricks, best practices and the like for setting up a new system. It's been a while since I've "refreshed" a system, and I feel rusty. And my RAM might be failing/faulty. More details inside.
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posted by filthy light thief
on Jun 10, 2011 -
15 answers
How to back up the information from the Notes app on an iPhone 3GS that crashed?
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posted by wooh
on May 30, 2011 -
4 answers
My Windows Explorer has recently begun to crash whenever I get a Facebook email. Any idea why this is happening and how I can fix it?
posted by Mickelstiff
on Apr 16, 2011 -
4 answers
My MacbookPro crashed last night, and I need to access my hard drive before going to the Apple Store. Right now I can't get past the start up screen with the Apple logo.
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posted by DiscourseMarker
on Mar 29, 2011 -
11 answers
Can't boot up my iMac (2009, 27" aluminum and glass model). Based on the failed solutions tallied after the jump, do you think buying Disk Warrior might work, or am I looking at total hard drive death? (Apple Care conveniently expired six weeks ago.)
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posted by Beardman
on Mar 15, 2011 -
12 answers
I had a motorcycle accident (I hit a car). The other driver is at fault. My bike will most likely be totaled, I went to the hospital, and some of my other stuff is broken. What will happen, and what should I be doing to make sure I recoup my damages?
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posted by aaronbeekay
on Feb 27, 2011 -
23 answers
Is there a standard protocol (or best practices) when an emergency responder (PD, FD, EMT) gets into an accident en route to or from a call?
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posted by Admiral Haddock
on Feb 10, 2011 -
3 answers
A colleague is finding that a page on a server that includes a SWF can load smoothly and be viewed in its entirety, but it generates a JavaScript error message whenever that page is unloaded, but only in IE7 and IE8. (Line 1, Char 1, "Access is denied", Code 0, URL=SWF file name). Firefox 3.6 and IE6 have no problems at all. For some reason, the page has been designed to load the SWF directly into an iframe's src attribute instead of using the usual OBJECT and EMBED tags and associated parameters within a separate HTML page. Is this unloading problem simply IE7 and IE8 being extra-vigilant about security with non-standard code?
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posted by The True Wheel
on Feb 6, 2011 -
1 answer
MAc OS X 10.6.X Won't boot PLEASE HELP!!! So the MBP17 (Late 2009) crashed while watching netflix in FF3.x I thought no problem, just reboot and watch the next episode...Oh how wrong I was, now it won't boot. Details after the jump.
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posted by AnOrigamiLife
on Oct 17, 2010 -
8 answers
Weird recurring computer problems - gradual data corruption? Seems like we've tried everything...
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posted by splice
on Oct 6, 2010 -
19 answers
I have just re-installed Windows Vista, and when trying to change power settings, rundll32 crashes. Help!
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posted by edbyford
on Sep 17, 2010 -
6 answers
How do I transfer accurate calendar information from my iTouch back into Google calendar and also back into Outlook 2003?
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posted by mcbeth
on Sep 12, 2010 -
3 answers
