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Alkorin

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You'd basically need to have some BIOS-specific malware to cause a slot to stop working (via changing the voltage to some ridiculous number or whatnot). It's very unlikely.
 
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I'm sitting here wondering what the fuck is wrong with my sound card and then I realized I still had my lawnmower earmuffs on and not my actual headphones.
 
Julian The Apostate

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Lol.

One time I went to the grocery store after work and noticed that all the women were checking me out hardcore the entire time. Big confidence boost. God Damn I must be looking fucking goooood. Strutting around like a boss. Got out to my truck and realized I forgot to take my hard hat off.
 
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I trying to replace corrupt version of Garmin Express on my Win7 laptop. I can't do it the normal way using Control Panel. There's no listing for it.

When I go to Garmin's site, I download the installer and then try to run it. Half way through I get a message saying it can't find RenuInstaller.msi and quits. I've searched for that file on my computer and I can't find it. I also says to contact my "Technical Support Group" so here I am.

TIA
 
LachiusTZ

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Trying to avoid a new build for a year or so, but, getting a blue screen (twice in a week or so).

I have been out of the loop for fucking with hardware for a very long time...

That being said, is there a way to isolate the component causing the issue? Without swapping it out piece Brett piece until it stops? Thinking it might be the graphics card.
 
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LachiusTZ_sl said:
Trying to avoid a new build for a year or so, but, getting a blue screen (twice in a week or so).

I have been out of the loop for fucking with hardware for a very long time...

That being said, is there a way to isolate the component causing the issue? Without swapping it out piece Brett piece until it stops? Thinking it might be the graphics card.
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With GFX it's usually a driver issue or a heat issue. You can push the heat issue by stressing the card.
 
Lanx

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LachiusTZ_sl said:
Trying to avoid a new build for a year or so, but, getting a blue screen (twice in a week or so).

I have been out of the loop for fucking with hardware for a very long time...

That being said, is there a way to isolate the component causing the issue? Without swapping it out piece Brett piece until it stops? Thinking it might be the graphics card.
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old computer, sudden/random BSOD? i say heat, most likely dust build up, open up your case and stick a box fan next to it, see if you BSOD anymore, if you do, clean that shit, or just clean it anyway.
 
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My old XPS410 is on its way out. I leave it in a room basically as a plex server, don't really do much with it. In the last few months I've had to replace all the RAM (it all died, every stick), HD (it died, completely), and now the PSU just went this week. It's like a 10 or 12 year old PC I think, sporting the best of the best of 2003 or whatever - Core2Duo Extreme processor, 8800 GTX video card, now 16GB RAM, a million TB hard drive space. Not really wanting to replace it, but I feel like I'm fixing a beater car with everything going wrong. I bet the mobo is next..
 
Lanx

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Noodlemod_sl said:
My old XPS410 is on its way out. I leave it in a room basically as a plex server, don't really do much with it. In the last few months I've had to replace all the RAM (it all died, every stick), HD (it died, completely), and now the PSU just went this week. It's like a 10 or 12 year old PC I think, sporting the best of the best of 2003 or whatever - Core2Duo Extreme processor, 8800 GTX video card, now 16GB RAM, a million TB hard drive space. Not really wanting to replace it, but I feel like I'm fixing a beater car with everything going wrong. I bet the mobo is next..
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i was thinking maybe you should replace the 8800 monster power drain w/ more basic vid card and passive cooling, cheapest is like 35bucks
Amazon.com: XFX AMD Radeon HD 5450 1GB GDDR3 VGA/DVI/HDMI Low-Profile PCI-Express Graphics Card HD545XZQH2;HD-545X-ZQH2: Electronics

also, does that mean you found 4 sticks of 4gb ddr2 ram?

replacing the vid card isn't a bad thing, that 8800gtx is just heating the whole box up.
 
Noodleface

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Yeah I found some place doing a closeout on DDR2 and snagged a bunch for it.

I have an emotional attachment to that video card, much like my Voodoo 3 2000
 
Alkorin

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radditsu_sl said:
Why do they not give out big discounts on video cards? I got kids to feed.
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LachiusTZ

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Well, I am officially fucking useless with computers. Tried to get dumpchk to work last night, to get the bsod codes. Downloaded a skd from Microsoft that was supposed to have it, doesn't seem to.

Never upgraded out of Windows 7... Is that what's making this difficult? Or am I missing some other basic part of getting the bsod report?
 
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I googled for a bsod code reader program. Found something that would just find the dump files and do that for me. I can't recall the name right now but it was free and saved me the headache of installing 3 different things from MS (why was this even a thing that had to be done?) just so I could see that Atikmdag.sys was being broken and crashing my system.
 
Alkorin

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Guys, just go look in the Event Viewer. Your crash codes will be in an event in the System log, unless the system was unable to write to the log, which is fairly rare.
 
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