That was the thing about hiest movies in the 60's, the plan works, but they never got away with it.
Getting back to computers, it's strange how most people confuse what the bits are. I always remember at one company, the monitor was called teh computer, and the computer was called the hard disk. The desktop background was called the screen saver, etc. So the Mac Mini has a laptop style AC adaptor rather than an internal one like most Desktops. I can see how that reduces the internals and therfore the size.
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Turns out the new processor expects dual channel RAM. Moved one of my modules one slot over, and all is well. Well, once I realized I'd mis-seated my heat sink when putting the new CPU back in. 92C is not a good temperature for electronics. So now I have a nice clean Windows install and a very fast desktop. :-)
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-------------------- Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil...prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon...
I get similar misnamed confusion amoungst the general public at my job. The monitor confusion is the most common.
"Okay, I need you to turn off your computer and then turn it back on." "Done." "That was fast. Are you sure you turned it all the way off?" "Yup. I'll do it again. Done."
Which always leads to me telling them that they're just turning the monitor off and on, that the monitor is just like a TV and they need to turn off the "base-unit". Every day that happens. It's not too bad though. Far more worrying is:
"Okay, can you double-click on "my computer". "Woah! Slow down, I'm not technical".
Then you know you're in for a fun call.
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Yeah, I had a customer that got pissed because he could not find his files in "My Computer". As though all computers (particularly the magic ones here at Kinko's) can access his home desktop.
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PEOPLE AND COMPUTERS OH MAN
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Yeah, I know. I never wanted to be an IT helpdesk guy. I wanted to be a lumberjack. Er, or a media journalist. One of them.
NINTEDO REVOLUTION CONTROLLER OH MAN
See? I can do it too.
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My need for tech help has now changed. It is less urgent, but still there. When playing games, the system freezes. Jedi Academy and Rise of Nations both do the same thing, hard freeze, all activity stops, no apparent reason. Temperature is fine. I haven't observed any other situations where it freezes (at least, not since the reinstall). No events show up in the event log. Playing it from the system drive or on the external drive makes no difference. All components of my machine are less than a year old. If I run memtest immediately after a freeze, I get no errors, but memtest freezes after a minute or two. If I let it sit for a bit and then run memtest, it works fine. This implies to me that it's a heat issue, perhaps with the video card. Any ideas as to how I might confirm that?
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Are you running anything while gaming? I used to have that problem if I was downloading files and running games (from CD or harddrive- same issue). Check Processes to make sure there is not some nasty exe file gremlin running at the same time.
Or voodoo. That works too (but cleaning chicken guts out of the keyboard is a hassle).
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Shutting down all programs in the systray and turning off the secondary monitor seemed to delay the crash for a bit, but it still occured. I'm running AVG, ad-aware and spybot right now, just in case there's something unpleasant somehow already on my system, but I don't have high hopes for that.
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Hmmm...most bad stuff shows as an "exe" file in processes so that's probably not your issue. Unless you've downloaded something recently without scanning it for content. You porn hound, you.
Hate to sentence you to Purgatory, but you might want to check with the manuacturer's tech support department (if this is a new machine, that is).
Also, check the compatibility of the games against your video card. Do the games crash only when things are moving fast/lots going on?
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Also when running games stop the AV scanner (make sure you're disconected from the net). Try reinstalling the graphic drivers, and directx whatever. Unfortunatly games typically push all the hardware, so finding the fault could be difficult. It could be audio drivers, heat (install a fan on the grpahics card if you don't have one already, plus rear and front case fans.) or anything between.
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An overheating GPU can be the source of a lot of weird things, but those are often very readily apparent in the form of a corrupted frame buffer and not much else. I've never had a graphics card totally lock up any of my systems, at least. Drivers, on the other hand...
(Information on what's inside your computer would be handy to have at this point.)
(Also, one of the reasons malware is So. Fucking. Hard. to remove is that it usually doesn't show up in Processes.)
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Running every system scan I can, removing all unnecessary hardware, both internal and external, shutting down all processes that would die, disabling the second monitor, reverting to ATi Catalyst 5.8, and running with the case off did nothing to help the problem. At time of crash, though, the GPU heatsink was hot enough to burn me. Gonna buy a slot fan tomorrow, see if that helps.
System specs are as follows: P4 3.0 GHz with hyperthreading, Prescott core; 2x512MB PC3200, Corsair, set up for dual channel; Radeon 9600LE; Soyo SY-P4I865PE Plus Dragon 2 v1.0 motherboard; 480W power supply. All parts are less than a year old.
Oh, and games crash regardless of the level of complexity of the render.
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