coyotecraft
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What are the chances of us going down for a while? I could be remembering wrong, but it seems like it always happened early in the year. And we'd be down for a week or more.
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Hmm. Unlikely, but then it's never expected when it happens. There's always a reason, but not a predictable one. Looking back at the news posts I don't think we've been down very much recently.
Perhaps it happens more in the new year because I normally have a post Christmas crash and start working on the forums. But that's usually just the odd two minutes when I cock up an update.
Perhaps it happens more in the new year because I normally have a post Christmas crash and start working on the forums. But that's usually just the odd two minutes when I cock up an update.
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So Star has a laptop from... Well I don't know when, actually. It's a bigger-sized Dell laptop with Windows Vista on it.
Innately there's nothing actually wrong with it. Runs fine, not too slow, and can even play *some* games.
The problem is after anyone uses it for at least 2 hours, it starts making this loud, grinding like noise. We then shut down the computer.
I think it might be the fan, or cooling fan and it's about to overheat. Since it only makes the noise after use of the laptop for a bit.
Any ideas?
Innately there's nothing actually wrong with it. Runs fine, not too slow, and can even play *some* games.
The problem is after anyone uses it for at least 2 hours, it starts making this loud, grinding like noise. We then shut down the computer.
I think it might be the fan, or cooling fan and it's about to overheat. Since it only makes the noise after use of the laptop for a bit.
Any ideas?
coyotecraft
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Use an air-can to blow out the fan? Might have to open it up and grease the fan or pull out any large clumps of dust.
You should be able to feel it get hot if it's overheating. Touch a metal part of the machine to check (USB ports probably have a metal frame, sometimes speaker grills do).
If it sounds grindy, it may be the HDD spinning up to do some shit (I think Vista introduced the Wednesday defrag thing, could be that and you're stopping it early due to the noise so it runs the next time it thinks it has a free hour). If it is the HDD, could even be malware running amuck.
To check if it's the HDD spinning, Vista should have a disk activity monitor. Alternatively, lift up the laptop when it makes the noise and tilt it left/right/back/forth and you may feel the HDD's gyro effect if it is indeed spinning.
The grind noise would be vibration.
Fans tend to sound like jet engines as you hear the air whistling through the component, if you hear the flow of air amongst the grinding then it would be fan.
If it sounds grindy, it may be the HDD spinning up to do some shit (I think Vista introduced the Wednesday defrag thing, could be that and you're stopping it early due to the noise so it runs the next time it thinks it has a free hour). If it is the HDD, could even be malware running amuck.
To check if it's the HDD spinning, Vista should have a disk activity monitor. Alternatively, lift up the laptop when it makes the noise and tilt it left/right/back/forth and you may feel the HDD's gyro effect if it is indeed spinning.
The grind noise would be vibration.
Fans tend to sound like jet engines as you hear the air whistling through the component, if you hear the flow of air amongst the grinding then it would be fan.
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Juan J. Sánchez
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Why don't we buy rmmv.net?
StrawberrySmiles
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Nothing is hot.Xilef":1pif2vh6 said:
And I let it go through this time, and it just stopped.
During that time I created some screenshots of the activity...
It just came back. Gotta go!
StrawberrySmiles
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We bought a new fan months ago. Star just hasn't installed it. Says it's too hard.
Checking out some of the RMMV bug complaints. One hilarious point was that there are users submitting system information that reports they don't have the required OpenGL version, yet RMMV works for them (to the utter surprise of the RMMV support staff).
This is actually because nwjs.io, the web client RMMV uses, retains the ANGLE library for web GL rendering, so the requirement is DirectX9, not OpenGL (The WebGL calls are used as a wrapper for DX).
So those who are on Windows 10 (which overrides your graphics driver with a generic MS driver that does not feature OpenGL beyond 1.3) then your system will report that it cannot support OpenGL, yet RMMV will work perfectly fine if your have DX9 hardware (which most people do by now).
Thought that was pretty interesting.
This is actually because nwjs.io, the web client RMMV uses, retains the ANGLE library for web GL rendering, so the requirement is DirectX9, not OpenGL (The WebGL calls are used as a wrapper for DX).
So those who are on Windows 10 (which overrides your graphics driver with a generic MS driver that does not feature OpenGL beyond 1.3) then your system will report that it cannot support OpenGL, yet RMMV will work perfectly fine if your have DX9 hardware (which most people do by now).
Thought that was pretty interesting.
