Hard Drive may be Crashing here

[Peyton Manning]

stop peeing on it

 

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[Oregon Viking]

The processor is the core of the computer and the get very warm, the fan that cools it blows over a heat sink.

Those heatsinks accumulate dirt and dust until they become useless, this eventually leads to processor meltdown.

I take the access cover off my desktop and clean the heatsink and fans every so often, my last PC crashed and I thought it was the drive until I disassembled it.

Yep! That's the joy of Speedfan. It monitors all temps, and you can "tell" it when to warn you. Newer computers you can control the fan speeds.

 

[Oregon Viking]

It's a corrupt video driver.--

Geek installs a trojan in your 'puter. Trojan sends all your pertnrnt info...to geek friend. geek steals your ID. Geek drains your bank account and destroys your credit. Geek vactions in RIO. geek gets caught (white & nerdy...) Geek now fixes "buh buh's" 'puter in sing-sing.

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

WD-40.

Too cold in PA to take it out and powerwash it.

 

[texasred777]

My biggest problem with suggesting that anyone who is not computer literate to some extent, to try some of the online fixes, is the fact I've seen too many computers in such a mess afterwards, that I've had to wipe and reload them. I was asked to look to at a computer by a friend. He said his friend's son had been using the family computer and now there were porn 'popups' every few minutes. When man brought the computer to me, he told me that he had a lot of other problems with it besides the porn popups. He said it was freezing up, turning itself off suddenly, sometimes resetting, etc. I started checking and found Norton, MacAfee, and several other virus programs installed on it. Not only that, but there had been several attempts to use some programs that were supposed to 'fix problems'. I worked for several hours trying to get most of this crap deleted so I wouldn't have to wipe and reload. No way. There were some of the programs that told me that I could not delete them. Some appeared to be gone, only to return minutes afterward. I'm not a computer tech. I know I'm not 'qualified' for some of the things I've run into on several computers that were almost as bad as this one, but I can certainly wipe that sucker and reload it, load a good virus program on it and return it to the people. I've never had one to come back, yet.
Again, all this to say anyone should be careful what they try to use to correct problems on a computer. Hey! Ever had a pop up that says your virus program has detected several viruses on your computer and it is in the process of repairing it? Then after a few minutes it pops up and tells you that for $49.99 you can be free of all of these viruses that has been found on your computer? Then you find that, yes, you do have a bunch of crap that the program loaded on it while it was 'fixing' it.

 

[jeff of pa]

My biggest problem with suggesting that anyone who is not computer literate to some extent, to try some of the online fixes, is the fact I've seen too many computers in such a mess afterwards, that I've had to wipe and reload them. I was asked to look to at a computer by a friend. He said his friend's son had been using the family computer and now there were porn 'popups' every few minutes. When man brought the computer to me, he told me that he had a lot of other problems with it besides the porn popups. He said it was freezing up, turning itself off suddenly, sometimes resetting, etc. I started checking and found Norton, MacAfee, and several other virus programs installed on it. Not only that, but there had been several attempts to use some programs that were supposed to 'fix problems'. I worked for several hours trying to get most of this crap deleted so I wouldn't have to wipe and reload. No way. There were some of the programs that told me that I could not delete them. Some appeared to be gone, only to return minutes afterward. I'm not a computer tech. I know I'm not 'qualified' for some of the things I've run into on several computers that were almost as bad as this one, but I can certainly wipe that sucker and reload it, load a good virus program on it and return it to the people. I've never had one to come back, yet.
Again, all this to say anyone should be careful what they try to use to correct problems on a computer. Hey! Ever had a pop up that says your virus program has detected several viruses on your computer and it is in the process of repairing it? Then after a few minutes it pops up and tells you that for $49.99 you can be free of all of these viruses that has been found on your computer? Then you find that, yes, you do have a bunch of crap that the program loaded on it while it was 'fixing' it.

That's why I trust my Nephew 100%
That way less chance I screw something up.

Porn Pop Ups ? I haven't see them since 2002 when I used to go to the Library
to use computers, because I still didn't have one.
I don't remember having porn Popups or any mass popup problem on any of my home computers.

I remember at the Library Popups seemed to have Popups

I seemed to always have to ask the librarian how to stop them

i don't know if they became illegal, or computer programs got smarter

 

[ConceptualizedNetherlandr]

Since when does illegal stop anything?

 

[Msbeepbeep]

Hope you get your computer fixed Jeff.
Twice I used a computer and it was a disaster both times.

Once at the library it froze and it was closing time, they had to call the main library to figure out how to shut it down and the janitor said "They shouldn't let people use a computer that don't know how!" .......I have never returned there.

The one and only time we got a computer and Internet service at home, I tried downloading a free anti virus program and porn pops up and freezes on the screen! My son-in-law told me to go in the main control and delete anything added that day. It worked and I cancelled our Internet service.

I have an I-pad mini, which I can barely operate.

 

[Auriemma]

Jeff... I hope your issues get resolved. Honestly sounds like malware. It happens. If its time for a new computer, Think about a Mac... SERIOUSLY!

 

[texasred777]

Jeff, your nephew can probably straighten out the problem. It took me several times to get a woman I know to stop trying different programs that claimed they would speed up her computer. I told her it was set up to run at maximum speed as it is, not to be running all of these 'speed up' programs she found on the net. After the third or fourth time, I told her that from now on, if she had a problem, and I found that she was running more of these programs, she could find a repair shop and pay them to fix it. So far, fingers crossed!
Also, if you have several brands of virus protection, they act like little kids trying to get to the problem first. They fight each other so hard, that the virus remains on the computer while they keep up their fighting. (Yes, I know this is a vague example, but it fits.)

 

[CA Gold Hunter]

Avg and chrome with Adblock seems to keep most popups and virus' at bay. Been using avg for 7-8 years and haven't had a virus since. I just had the power supply go out on my pc. It would randomly shut down and give me errors and blue screen sometimes. I ended up just rebuilding it since it was about 4 years old. Power supply was literally smoked though and smelled like burnt electrical lol.