El Sitherino Posted June 14, 2006 Share Posted June 14, 2006 So I've managed to crash my system again. Chances are however within 12 hours (sleeping included in this time) I should have it up and running. However, it's still distressing when you watch you system slowly lose life. All those days, weeks, months, years spent customizing and optimizing, and you see it die. Watching it fade, literally fade away, down the drain in one moments slip of the mind, . It's like a crazy cyber child in a way, all that slaving over what is eventually nothing. It just makes you want to kick the **** out of your case, but you know it'd only add to the repair/restoration work. Anyway, anyone else decide to go extreme with the internals of their computer to see just how much customization and optimizing you could do, and crash your system? PS: Don't mess too much with process of an OS startup, it only ends in pain. And I think after I bring it back to life this time, my system will have earned it's name as "BothanSpy". It dies to bring me information. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astrotoy7 Posted June 14, 2006 Share Posted June 14, 2006 ah, I was perplexed too see sithy's name under this thread, as he's far too knowledgable to need IT help... turns out its a lament thread ah well sithy, you live you learn - all things die I fiddle a bit, but not an avid overclocker by any means. But I wouldnt do it on my main rigs anyway. In what meagre spare time I can scrounge, Im just starting to get into building media center getups(with help of course ! ) but thats about it. whats your next setup going to be sithy ?? mtfbwya Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Sitherino Posted June 14, 2006 Author Share Posted June 14, 2006 Not sure, probably something similiar to my previous one. All my hardware is still functionaly. Mostly what happened was I ****ed up OS settings. Luckily I can still access the drive, I'm hoping I can figure out a way to bring it back to life without a complete re-install. Only problem is, what I believe to be the issue, is spread out among various configuration files through many different folders and paths. Which will probably take longer than I thought. (Plus I slept longer than I wanted ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
REDJOHNNYMIKE Posted June 14, 2006 Share Posted June 14, 2006 Sorry to hear it buddy:( Hope you're up and running soon:D May your new rig be the eternally loving and kinky significant other that the old whore could never live up to:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Posted June 15, 2006 Share Posted June 15, 2006 I wouldn't say I've went all-out customizing my comp, seeing as it hasn't been upgraded since when I was in 6th grade when I built it But one time the whole system was close to crashing when I got a trojan a couple years back. Whenever I'd go on the Internet, the system would restart, and I had popups all over the place. This was before I converted to firefox of course. But I had to work on that for 2 days straight before it was working again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HerbieZ Posted June 15, 2006 Share Posted June 15, 2006 My comp dies regularly, specially after playing memory hogging games. Im currently saving up £5000 for the latest Alienware so at last i can play a mean game of solitaire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnderWiggin Posted June 15, 2006 Share Posted June 15, 2006 My comp dies regularly, specially after playing memory hogging games. Im currently saving up £5000 for the latest Alienware so at last i can play a mean game of solitaire. You mean Dellienware? Dell bought out Alienware about a month ago. That's why I am getting an HP this summer instead of an Alienware... _EW_ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Char Ell Posted June 15, 2006 Share Posted June 15, 2006 ^^^ So you're going to get a lesser piece of HPaq hardware just because Dell bought Alienware? HP doesn't make any PC's that rival what you can get with an Alienware PC. Sounds like you're choosing the supplier over the performance. Of course I don't know how people afford top-of-the-line Alienware PC's to begin with... @ Insane Sith - Assuming you use Windows XP, you don't have any system restore points to go back to? I've only used XP's system restore once on someone else's laptop (didn't fix the problem because the restore point had been set after the problem started) but seems to me that if you had a restore point before you started tinkering with your OS then using it may very well "revive" your dying system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpaceAlex Posted June 15, 2006 Share Posted June 15, 2006 Alienware is way overpriced. Just build a custom computer. You can get the same for half less. It just takes more time to put it together. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Det. Bart Lasiter Posted June 15, 2006 Share Posted June 15, 2006 Insane Sith - Assuming you use Windows XP, you don't have any system restore points to go back to? I've only used XP's system restore once on someone else's laptop (didn't fix the problem because the restore point had been set after the problem started) but seems to me that if you had a restore point before you started tinkering with your OS then using it may very well "revive" your dying system.He's using Ubuntu Linux- http://lucasforums.com/showthread.php?t=166169 Alienware is way overpriced. Just build a custom computer. You can get the same for half less. It just takes more time to put it together.It depends on where you buy your parts, but for the most part you're going to get more for you money-I've never heard of any OEM computer outperforming a custom-built computer that costs the same amount. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HerbieZ Posted June 16, 2006 Share Posted June 16, 2006 Alienware is way overpriced. Just build a custom computer. You can get the same for half less. It just takes more time to put it together. Tbh though with the right deal, you can get a free aluminium suitcase and a free keychain. Well worth the 5 grand alone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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