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[Flying Dice]

http://www.kyoceradocumentsolutions.com.au/solutions/SoftwareSolutions/NetworkDeviceManagement/Pages/KYOCERANetViewer.aspx It's also possible that the dick stepdad doesn't actually know what he is doing.

I also saw a lot of returns regarding the installation of parental-monitoring spyware on Kyocera phones.

[Chiefwaffles]

I've been having a problem with my computer for a while now. Every now and again, when turning on, my computer starts to turn on and off repeatedly by itself. This usually ends after 1/2 to 4 minutes, but afterwards the computer refuses to output to the display. This tends to solve itself in some random way after an hour or so, but it's still pretty worrying.

I've tried unplugging the HDMI cable from the graphics card and into the motherboard, but that doesn't seem to solve anything either.

I have a P8Z77-V motherboard and a R9 270 graphics card. The PSU is the oldest part in the computer, and I don't remember what brand it is. Any ideas what piece of hardware is causing this?

EDIT: Okay so this time just hitting the dedicated "reset" "restart" button on the computer case worked. Whereas regular resetting restarting (via the power button) didn't.

[Sensei]

It could be a physical problem with the reset switch itself, or the front panel connectors (IE, wires for the power and reset button) on the motherboard could be loose/frayed/etc.

[Chiefwaffles]

It's very likely separate from the restart switch. My PSU(?) makes a very distinct "clicking" sound when actually turning on/off that it doesn't make when restarting. When stuck in the loop, I hear the clicking sound whenever it toggles on/off.

(I meant "restart" when I said "reset", by the way. I assume 'reset' was taken to mean 'restart', but if not, sorry for the confusion.)

[Thief^]

I would guess a fault with the power-supply, e.g. voltages outside of range, is causing the motherboard to turn the PC off as a protective measure. It then tries to turn on again, gets the same issue, and turns off again. Etc etc.

It could even be that your PSU is fine, it just isn't powerful enough to handle the load of everything turning on at once - hard-disks take extra power to spin up, fans run at full power when first turned on until the temperature monitoring kicks in, etc etc. Booting takes a surge of power, and if the PSU isn't up to it then its voltages will drop and you'll get failures.

Normally it wouldn't turn back on by itself, but it's still a possibility.

[ancistrus]

My computer has been pretty bad lately. Slow, blue screens very ofter. I am trying to run system restore but it just wont start. I can see the proccess running but it does not do anything. Pressing F8 while booting and trying to run system restore from there also does nothing at all.

How do I save my computer?

(Using Vista)

[Lightningfalcon]

Alright so since my desktop is fried, and the SSD from it has more then twice the space of my laptops SSD, I'm trying to load it up with... stuff before I go back home tommorow, which has super crappy internet. I currently have it connected with the USB to SATA cable that I initially used to clone my hard drive on my desktop a couple months back. How likely am I to fuck something up badly, what with the external SSD being Win7 and my laptop being Win8, and me running programs like steam from the external SSD? I can install stuff just fine from there, along with doing manual deletions. I've noticed that steam seems to not like it when I try to delete a game on the external SSD, since it kind of just hangs there and occasionally crashes.

...Huh. Apparnetly steam is smart enough to see that when I try to install stuff I'm doing it on an external drive, and it has a pop up for it.

And now windows is telling me it is two hours ahead of the current time. Other then that nothing seems to be broken. Yet.

[BigD145]

My computer has been pretty bad lately. Slow, blue screens very ofter. I am trying to run system restore but it just wont start. I can see the proccess running but it does not do anything. Pressing F8 while booting and trying to run system restore from there also does nothing at all.

How do I save my computer?

(Using Vista)

Step 1: Get rid of Vista.

[flabort]

My computer has been pretty bad lately. Slow, blue screens very ofter. I am trying to run system restore but it just wont start. I can see the proccess running but it does not do anything. Pressing F8 while booting and trying to run system restore from there also does nothing at all.

How do I save my computer?

(Using Vista)

Step 1: Get rid of Vista.

While BigD is being kind of a D by giving such a smartass answer, it's correct.
Install a different operating system; Win 7, Win XP, Linux, anything but Vista. Once you have that installed, you can take the steps to transfer your files, folders, and programs from the Vista install into the new install, and once you have all that done you should remove Vista entirely. It's almost as bad a Windows ME, and just as notorious.

[Aklyon]

Going from vista to 10 won't help things though. It might even make them worse.

[i2amroy]

Going from vista to 10 won't help things though. It might even make them worse.

Eh, 10 has been improved so much now that it's actually pretty decent. Still not better than 7 yet, but it's at the point where I'd recommend it for people who have no clue how to use a computer since it takes a fair bit of work to stop it from forcing you to do updates/etc.. And it has the advantage of still being a free switch for the next month or so, while 7 and older are no longer receiving improvements at this point (just security patches or nothing).

[Thief^]

Sigh. The OS isn't the issue, Vista doesn't spontaneously blue screen. It's one of these:
Hardware failure. RAM is most common.
Dodgy drivers. Got any cheap shit peripherals with its own driver disk recently?
Corruption. Either of Windows or drivers. Tends to fall under either virus or hardware failure.
Virus. Most modern viruses don't cause blue-screens, but it could still be.

I'd run memtest, a virus scan, and sfc (system file checker) as a first step.

[Dozebôm Lolumzalìs]

Whenever I try to save a document in Microsoft Word 2013, it has a significant chance of grayscreening the application (not responding). Then when it closes, the document it was saving to is gone. That is, the folder it was saving to has the file it was saving to deleted from it.

The hell is wrong with my comp? (Windows 8) I've tried deleting normal.dot or something like that, but it didn't work.

Also, what is this crap? It'll teach me not to install crappy free things anymore, it overrode my google search default.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I realize that redirects to Yahoo. My "crappy" epithet refers to both the url and the Yahoo. google forever man.

[Insanegame27]

Will the free upgrade to win10 from 7/8 ever be redacted? I think someone here said there's about a month to go before it gets made paid? Verify?

[Aklyon]

Will the free upgrade to win10 from 7/8 ever be redacted? I think someone here said there's about a month to go before it gets made paid? Verify?

It was originally stated to be free until june of this year. As in, you have to pay for it afterwards if you do not already have it. If you think its worth paying for, that is.