Questions about SSD's and Hard Drives

[chalupa]

lol, porn stache.

You meant "stash," right?

 

[silberfuchs]

Was that the DVD that didn't validate, or did you already try burning a new copy?
If you have to burn it again, try reducing the write speed as that'll help avoid write errors.

As far as the other HD not showing up, I have no idea what you did there.

 

[chalupa]

He spooged to chicks on tinychat one too many times.

 

[tonythetiger]

Got the computer to recognize the main hard drive after I plugged it into a different sata port. I'm running the memory test now.

 

[chalupa]

If power is out in half the city, how are you posting?

 

[tonythetiger]

I never said the power was out

 

[chalupa]

You know what, Tony? Sometimes you're about as much fun as a cold sore.

 

[Fero]

 

[tonythetiger]

No errors on the memory. If the computer crashes again while on Firefox i'll reinstall windows.

 

[silberfuchs]

No memory errors? How long did you leave it running?

We've pretty much narrowed it down to being drivers or something goofy with Windows. A reinstall should fix it. If you need a copy, let me know.

 

[tonythetiger]

No memory errors? How long did you leave it running?

We've pretty much narrowed it down to being drivers or something goofy with Windows. A reinstall should fix it. If you need a copy, let me know.

I left it running for ~3 hours.

 

[Fero]

You should her invite her over to take a look at your gear with her own eyes.

 

[tonythetiger]

I think I might have found the problem. Once again it happened in Firefox when I was looking for new porn to DL and things started to get slow and the mouse cursor started becoming odd colors and symbols I've never seen before. I closed Firefox and opened up Task manager to see what was running. What's odd is that there were 4 iexplorer.exe's running at the top of the list. After closing them I was still having issues and thought it was the video card driver. I opened up nvidias control panel and thought turning it to SLI mode would help. When I clicked apply my computer screen went dark and the blue light that shows my screen is on started flashing (it does this in sleep mode and when the computer is off). I turned off my computer and when I got back to windows it had both video cards disabled. Does this mean my video card is the problem? If so why is Firefox causing it to crash?

 

[silberfuchs]

If you're using Firefox, you should not have iexplore.exe running at all. Sounds more like an attempt to install a rootkit that ended up screwing up the hooks causing instability. I don't know what's so complicated about a code-cave and a JMP, but some people can't seem to get it right.

Anyways, why aren't you using NoScript and Adblock plus? Block all JS and make exceptions for what you need.

 

[tonythetiger]

If you're using Firefox, you should not have iexplore.exe running at all. Sounds more like an attempt to install a rootkit that ended up screwing up the hooks causing instability. I don't know what's so complicated about a code-cave and a JMP, but some people can't seem to get it right.

Anyways, why aren't you using NoScript and Adblock plus? Block all JS and make exceptions for what you need.

I use Internet Explorer for everything besides stuff I don't want to save (porn, movies, tv shows) so I'm guessing it never closes properly. I'll download NoScript but I don't know how to block JS (JavaScript?).

 

[silberfuchs]

That's what NoScript does. Just click the icon and change it to "Disable Javascript globally." When you get to a page that uses Javascript, click the icon again and you can specify which domains to allow scripts from. Try to limit scripts to only trusted domains.

 

[tonythetiger]

What about the video card problem?

 

[silberfuchs]

I have no idea what that's about. It could be a hardware issue with your card or it could be a flaw in the drivers. Did you reinstall the OS already? If so and it continues, then I'm going to assume it's a hardware problem.

 

[Fero]

He has hardware problems all the time.

Get it? Hard ware?

 

[chalupa]

Don't you mean soft ware?