[rant] Computer Problems....

[Tim.]

The past week of my life has been a living hell. I have three very good, well protected computers, (One desktop, two laptops) and until Wednesday last week they all worked fine. Normally the most I do on the computer is go on this forum, work on rmxp, chat on IM or listen to music.

So on wednesday, I noticed my laptop was getting pop ups on the internet. I haven't gotten pop ups for the past two and a half years. So I opened up the Firefox settings, and noticed the pop up blocker was turned off. Odd, since I only go into those settings to change my home page.

So then I tried turning the pop up blocker on. When I did so, the computer got a bad surge of LAG and then it made some loud, screeching noises. After, a pop up with gibberish popped up, and the only option I had was to click ok. Since Firefox was obviously messed up, I closed it, started a virus scan, and opened RMXP to work on a game project.

Now, when I opened RMXP, I got the splash screen, and then an error message saying Direct X Sound Settings Incompatible or something similar to that. I ran a DirectX Diagnose, and it said I had no sound card.

Now I was pissed off. More pissed than I had been all summer vacation, which is already half over.

After checking the other computers, I noticed they had similar problems. Then for the next 3 days, the internet didn't work. I didn't know what to do. So I called this computer technician, he came over, fixed the internet, but not the other problems. He reccomended reformatting Windows, which seemed like a reasonable option.

I had reformatted two of the computers, and they worked fine, but while reformatting the third, the hard drive crashed. Blue screen of death for about 9 seconds, and then sparks flew out of the keyboard. This on was a laptop by the way.

So now, I have one less computer, and minor lag/spyware problems on the other two.

Problems:

• I am short one very good computer.
• I lost everything except an RMXP game and some photos.
• I need a new motherboard and two sound cards.
• I need to buy RMXP again.
• I need to call the technician to help, but I can't afford that.
• My internet has died again.
• My computers are almost worthless now.
• My summer is ruined.

If your wondering how I typed this message, I'm on the remaining laptop, using a wireless internet card. The keyboard is very odd, and none of my files or programs are on here. Right now I'm tired, pissed off, and hungry. So I probably wont reply to this for the next... 24 hours or so.

 

[Opt7ons]

I went without virus/adware/spyware protection from 2001 to 2006 April. Sure, when i scanned there were a couple of thosand 'diffrent' viruses (Litterally). Even so, its still usable (infact i'm typeing with it now ). Your just unlucky.

 

[Overdrive]

That's like....THE worst luck ever. I hope the rest of your summer is better. O.o

 

[Mega Flare]

Sex.

Also they weren't 'Spyquake' popups, were they? Because I'm getting those and they won't go away despite multiple scans and registry cleanups.

I hate that spyquake stuff. Come on. about 5 months ago i had that problem. It kept instaling Spyquake onto my computer. I get rid of it... it back in like 10mins. Grr. Later i learned out that i couldnt update my Viruse scanner and spyware applctions. Also i couldnt use those free online scanners. The sites were blocked. So i send it to my moms friend to get fixed. It was some Viruse we had. Dont know what it was. But he had to instal like a diffrent Viruse scanner. LAtest version of PC-cillin. After that we got rid of it and my computur worked fine

 

[Mega Flare]

I could have have done that. But the person found some other problems and He instaled a new CD/DVD Drive.

 

[Draken]

Woah, unlucky dude. I guess VR wont be out for KGE

 

[Nin]

Its not really a living hell. If your PC isn't working how about....go outside? Or read a book. Or play the guitar. Or....

Sure there's other stuff to do, but those events really burned up alot of his past time, money, and work.