The One Problem to Rule them All

Discussion in 'PS2 Main' started by Phaedo, Jul 17, 2013.

The One Problem to Rule them All

Discussion in 'PS2 Main' started by Phaedo, Jul 17, 2013.

  1. Phaedo

    Phaedo The Weeaboo Hunter

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    A lot. Mainly like typicals. Here, FB, Twiter, fdu.edu, etc, etc, etc you tube. just normal stuff
     
  2. Kowlefe

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    Going off what you said and how it's not a heating issues, and if it were a memory issue your mobo would beep at you with an error tone or give you a message, it sounds like a virus. If you got tones or a bsod or something it would be a different story. I would look through all the files you have and trash those you don't use.
     
  3. Phaedo

    Phaedo The Weeaboo Hunter

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    See, I do that regularly on my desktop but I haven't done it in months on my laptop. I did it on my laptop and so far so good
     
  4. Ender

    Ender DA Chuck Norris

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    Thought i'd chime in since I kind of do computer tech to pay the bills :P I spoke with you briefly last night in twitch chat. Hopefully you were able to find something in the system logs if not I can still help out a bit.

    Check the windows system logs if you haven't.
    1. Click Start
    2. "Right Click" Computer, select "manage"
    3. [​IMG]

    Where it says sorting, click it so critical comes up first, make sure the side scroll bar is at the top because it'll auto-jump to the entry you have highlighted after a fresh sort.

    Google the event ID you come back with for any critical or warning event that occurs near when you are having problems. Then let me know here and we can take it from there.

    One thing to note with SSD's is that they're still fresh and you may need a firmware update if possible. My 128GB Crucial M4 requires a FIRMWARE update within 7 months of using it or it starts to deteriorate and cause all sorts of random problems. Once the updated firmware is in place everything is kocer and running amazing. Let me know :)


    As far as the other stuff goes.... Memory does not always cause the motherboard to beep at you. That's only if its blatantly corrupted, a lot of bad memory (gets a few bits and bytes confused here and there) goes under the radar and causes those "huh, why did windows update cause Windows to unmount itself?" Memcheck is ALWAYS a good idea up front.

    Normally I'd recommend using GWScan or WDTools to scan your drive for errors too but it's SSD and those wouldn't be useful in this situation. The fact you've reformatted and continued to experience problems also rules out viruses and software. Something on the hardware end of things in this configuration is causing your problems.

    Do you have a stable power source or UPC? Low power can be a major culprit in "randomness" and is potentially more dangerous to your system than power spikes which knock your shit out or they don't. Do you have a power supply tester? If you don't, they're cheap ~$20 or your local computer repair place probably has one. Fluctuating output from a PSU can cause randomness and failure.

    Is there any kind of Auto-OC or Turbo on your motherboard? Auto-OC is good to find baselines, then statically configure. Leaving them on auto means at any point in your game, if your mobo deems it necessary to push Vcore for some more juice it could de-stabalize things, my MSI board did that for a month before i figured out it was the Auto-OC, auto-correcting itself.

    Bad PCI, PCI-E card/slot? Sounds dumb but i've seen it before as well. I once had a system in that had all the signs of a dead motherboard. Removing the 56k modem from a pci slot caused everything to work just like new magically.