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[BlackFlyme]

I have no idea what the problem is, but that sounds bad, so I'm presenting you with great sympathy. I hope your computer decides to reconsider its new career as a heavy metal box.

It's not all that heavy. It was dusty though. I cleaned it, and it seemed to work for a bit afterwards, but not for very long.

All of the things I've found online were issues caused by overclocking. Likely my problem is that something overheated and failed.

A friend of mine offered to check out the heatsink, which was nice of him. But considering it won't even start properly now, I have my doubts about being able to repair it.

E: Fixed quote.

[BadLemonsXI]

I have no idea what the problem is, but that sounds bad, so I'm presenting you with great sympathy. I hope your computer decides to reconsider its new career as a heavy metal box.

Or a paper weight.

[nenjin]

My reading says it can be anything from the Windows install, to a faulty core, to a dying/dead core, to some component on the mobo.

If it will at least POST, you can try re-installing Windows to see if that helps. Short of that, you have to test and/or replace each component until you find the one that's the problem. If it's the mobo, well, you're pretty much boned.

[BlackFlyme]

I didn't get a windows disc or anything like that with my computer, so I can't re-install. Sometimes it starts up, but more often it just stalls before it really does anything, only going far enough to leave a big 'ACER' on the screen. Sometimes nothing happens at all. Where the only things making any noise are the fans.

I suppose I'll have to find a way to test the components.

New rage: misplaced dice. They are still at my dad's. I will not be able to get them in time for the game I'm going to tomorrow. Also the realization that if my HDD is borked, I will have lost a lot of irretrievable stuff, such as all my personal DF mods and a lot of art I've made.

[Tawa]

I goddamned hate the people who think up this shit.

This. This is why I am allowed a single stretch of road to ride my bike on. This is why I cannot use a computer for an extended amount of time. This is why I cannot leave sight of my house for "walks in the forest" (read: wandering around an all too familiar spot with some trees).

If I could, I'd track down the perpetrators of every falsified myth on that page and kick them in the groin multiple times.

Same thing with the similarly-minded public service announcements  from around '10 with the little girl getting kidnapped when her mom looks away for half a second.

[tuypo1]

I goddamned hate the people who think up this shit.

This. This is why I am allowed a single stretch of road to ride my bike on. This is why I cannot use a computer for an extended amount of time. This is why I cannot leave sight of my house for "walks in the forest" (read: wandering around an all too familiar spot with some trees).

If I could, I'd track down the perpetrators of every falsified myth on that page and kick them in the groin multiple times.

Same thing with the similarly-minded public service announcements  from around '10 with the little girl getting kidnapped when her mom looks away for half a second.

Indeed.
Although with the candy one im pretty sure it only happened once and it was a targeted premeditated murder attempt by somebody trying to kill there own children.
as for the car heat one thats true that happens all the god dam time. but annoyingly i was in the car once and my mother got all worried i would overheat im a grown adult and it wasent even fucking hot if it got to hot i would have gotten out

[tuypo1]

im just amazed snoops has a whole section on Disney

these legal ones how do people even come up with these things

well this is just highly interesting

http://snopes.com/risque/aphrodisiacs/yawn.asp

jeez the september 11 terrorist attacks caused a lot of rumors i was expecting them all to be crazy the goverment did it wackos but theres a few interesting ones here mostly false of course but still

http://snopes.com/rumors/starbucks.asp

there products are douchy but this is being outright evil

[The Darkling Wolf]

I have no idea what the problem is, but that sounds bad, so I'm presenting you with great sympathy. I hope your computer decides to reconsider its new career as a heavy metal box.

It's not all that heavy. It was dusty though. I cleaned it, and it seemed to work for a bit afterwards, but not for very long.

All of the things I've found online were issues caused by overclocking. Likely my problem is that something overheated and failed.

A friend of mine offered to check out the heatsink, which was nice of him. But considering it won't even start properly now, I have my doubts about being able to repair it.

E: Fixed quote.

As someone who's computer recently crapped out (admittedly, just the hard drive, so easily fixable) I pain your feel.

[TamerVirus]

Ah snopes, the one website absolutely no one reads when forwarding stupid shit

[Flying Dice]

fuck me why did i even think that a degree setup that would conclude with four separate mentors for my thesis would be a good idea

[Arx]

Remind me again, why am I, as a South African, expected to, in a biology test, know where major American centers of population are?

[tuypo1]

Remind me again, why am I, as a South African, expected to, in a biology test, know where major American centers of population are?

hell why would even americans be asked that

[Graknorke]

Remind me again, why am I, as a South African, expected to, in a biology test, know where major American centers of population are?

What's the context?

[MaximumZero]

Thought I fixed my desktop. It was even running for a while too. Then it crashed again.

Doesn't even want to start up properly. When it does, it gives me a BSOD with the error "clock interrupt was not received on a secondary processor within the allocated time interval."

Sounds like a BIOS issue. If you can, find an update. If you can't, try posting in the computer help thread.

[Arx]

Remind me again, why am I, as a South African, expected to, in a biology test, know where major American centers of population are?

What's the context?

"What is unusual about this distribution [of heart disease deaths]?"

Correct answer: The highest density is in a rural area.

Apparently we're supposed to be able to answer questions like that with "general knowledge". I have insane general knowledge, at least when compared to my classmates, and I had no idea.