Computer Issues

Tarisk · Jul 8, 2020

Plenty of reason for a power supply to cause a freeze if it's unstable/failing. Minor drop in voltage/frequency can cause a video card or other piece of hardware to have a brief issue because of that sudden change in power and boom, frozen PC or BSOD or other symptom that doesn't have to be an instant restart.

slippery · Jul 8, 2020

Tarisk said:
Plenty of reason for a power supply to cause a freeze if it's unstable/failing. Minor drop in voltage/frequency can cause a video card or other piece of hardware to have a brief issue because of that sudden change in power and boom, frozen PC or BSOD or other symptom that doesn't have to be an instant restart.

Yeah, I'm not saying it's the only things to go wrong, I'm just saying when you're getting specifically that type of failure that's usually the cause

j00t · Jul 9, 2020

i don't know if i should post it here or in the networking thread... everything seems like it's an issue with my pc specifically so i'll ask here.

Problem: my internet connection on my pc is extremely slow (100kbps at most) and sometimes it just loses connection with the net altogether.

everything was fine a few days ago. i went to bed, and when i woke up my pc connection took a nosedive. i thought it might be my ISP provider specifically, but every other connection seems to be running normally.

my setup is a little jank, but it's been working for a few years. the main router is in another building on the property (my parents house). i have a wifi extender in my house that boosts their wifi signal so i can use it. i have my pc wired to the extender and everything else uses the wifi (ps4, phone, etc)

my phone gets about 8mpbs on average and usually my pc gets about 10-15mpbs. i've done the usual fixes, restarting the pc/extender/router multiple times, updated drivers, reseating everything... nothing seems to make any kind of difference.

any ideas why something like that would happen?

j00t · Jul 9, 2020

well i failed upwards... i tried everything i could think of, resigned to the idea that the network card was going bad. on my phone i started looking at prices and... well everything started working all by itself. my pc went from getting about 13 mpbs on average a few days ago, to next to nothing the last 2 days, and now it's at 97.4 mbps. wtf.

a_skeleton_05 · Jul 26, 2020

My displays are being put to sleep by Windows despite having every power option for such things disabled. Has anyone encountered this or know of a way to reset all power settings?

Lanx · Jul 26, 2020

Dom said:
My displays are being put to sleep by Windows despite having every power option for such things disabled. Has anyone encountered this or know of a way to reset all power settings?

are you plugging in devices to your monitor? theres a setting called usb selective suspend on power... lemme find a screenshot

eh, wife is on win10 pc

it's adv power settings - usb settings - usb selective suspend, and expand

a_skeleton_05 · Jul 26, 2020

Lanx said:
are you plugging in devices to your monitor? theres a setting called usb selective suspend on power... lemme find a screenshot

eh, wife is on win10 pc

it's adv power settings - usb settings - usb selective suspend, and expand

No, and that setting is already disabled.

Lanx · Jul 26, 2020

Dom said:
No, and that setting is already disabled.

well you need 240hz then, i don't know what else will help

Argarth · Jul 26, 2020

Dom said:
My displays are being put to sleep by Windows despite having every power option for such things disabled. Has anyone encountered this or know of a way to reset all power settings?

A long time ago I had a problem with Windows changing my power plan "by itself" occasionally. Thought I might have had a corrupted profile, so I deleted and reinstalled them.

Not sure if this is your issue but it might help. I've only 2 now - "Ultimate Performance" and "Bitsum Highest Performance" (bundled w/Process Lasso), both manually installed.

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/43698-delete-power-plan-windows-10-a.html

Swap to one you never use, and then delete your "suspect" profile. I used Command Prompt Option 2.

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/110372-restore-missing-default-power-plans-windows-10-a.html

Re-install the one you want and swap back. Good luck.

Xexx · Jul 26, 2020

Eh some displays have sleep mode built in too also right? Or do they note? unsure i've never had this mentioned issue.

a_skeleton_05 · Jul 27, 2020

Somehow the screen saver shit got enabled, but it was fucking up and causing a black screen and wasn't showing anything. Half the time trying to wake up from it was also causing a system freeze.

Lanx · Jul 27, 2020

Dom said:
Somehow the screen saver shit got enabled, but it was fucking up and causing a black screen and wasn't showing anything. Half the time trying to wake up from it was also causing a system freeze.

only 90s kids know

Denamian · Jul 27, 2020

Lanx said:
only 90s kids know

Terial · Aug 6, 2020

so i've got something a bit new to me....
I was going through my startup apps and i found something called "Program" this to me is odd... so i decided to run "Autoruns" great little program that literally shows everything that's running during bootup and i found what you see in the screenshot below listed under "Boot Execute"
When i track taht down to the registry it takes you to the final screenshot.
Now i do not know if "program" is even linked to this... so my few questions are. Does anyone know how to figure out what "program" is linked to?
Has anyone else seen the crazy japanese that i am getting? Searching online gets me nothing, so i turn to you all.

Startup Apps

From Autoruns

Registry

I am tempted to just delete all this crap, but wanted to see if anyone had any ideas. Yes if you want i can copy and paste the entire Chinese to here, it's pretty long actually.

Edaw · Aug 6, 2020

It's probably just gibberish and an orphaned registry entry. Something didn't uninstall completely, Run Ccleaner registry and it should disappear.

Also check Task Manager > Startup tab
If it shows there, right click any column header and select command line and it will show path.

Terial · Aug 7, 2020

Edaw said:
It's probably just gibberish and an orphaned registry entry. Something didn't uninstall completely, Run Ccleaner registry and it should disappear.

Also check Task Manager > Startup tab
If it shows there, right click any column header and select command line and it will show path.

thanks for the command line location:

no idea what it is, i'll be getting rid of it (there is no folder for it, but i can clean up the registry)
will also get ccleaner to see what else i can find.
Thank man

Edaw · Aug 7, 2020

np. it looks like its the teams installer MS is nice enough to place on your computer at no extra charge

Here's an article about the very issue. Appears to be a MS fuckup in the path - in the comments of the article is a registry fix for it.

Shows up as "Program" under Startup tab of Task Manager · Issue #1529 · MicrosoftDocs/OfficeDocs-SkypeForBusiness

If you install the machine based teams installer, it adds this to the registry: value name = TeamsMachineInstaller, value data = %ProgramFiles%\Teams Installer\Teams.exe --checkInstall --source=def...

github.com

ShakyJake · Aug 7, 2020

Let me know if there's a better place to post this...

Anyone know of a way to manually clear an iPad's cache? Not the browser cache -- but the third party / system cache. My mom's iPad has a whopping 6GB of "Other" showing in the iPad storage. It sounds like this is system cache and app cache. However, the individual apps themselves don't show that their consuming this memory. So it sounds like some random temp files (guessing from my Windows experience) has been left hanging around.

Lanx · Aug 7, 2020

ShakyJake said:
Let me know if there's a better place to post this...

Anyone know of a way to manually clear an iPad's cache? Not the browser cache -- but the third party / system cache. My mom's iPad has a whopping 6GB of "Other" showing in the iPad storage. It sounds like this is system cache and app cache. However, the individual apps themselves don't show that their consuming this memory. So it sounds like some random temp files (guessing from my Windows experience) has been left hanging around.

if it's a mom ipad, it's probably safari cache, it depends on the ios ver, but from settings go into safari itself and there will be a clear history option.

note safari is a core program, so it won't be listed as other programs it'll be like an option like mail settings or siri settings.

ShakyJake · Aug 7, 2020

Lanx said:
if it's a mom ipad, it's probably safari cache, it depends on the ios ver, but from settings go into safari itself and there will be a clear history option.

note safari is a core program, so it won't be listed as other programs it'll be like an option like mail settings or siri settings.

Tried that, didn't make a noticeable dent.

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