IT guy, weekend SCCA racer, new Subaru owner, Foursquare SU3, PSU alum, gadget lover, Apple user, all-around regular guy.
OK, so it’s not so much a “solution” to a problem – as it is just a sidestepping of the issue… but I bought a new video card. Problem gone. However that does lead me to two theories… a) The video card really was the issue and I have actually solved my problem. Or b) I still have no idea what the real problem is, but somehow the video card seems to be holding it [...]
It’s been a while since I brought up anything related to my Windows 7 freezing. Mostly that’s because I turned Aero off and it hasn’t frozen since… but also b/c I haven’t bothered to try anything else. That is until earlier this week. At the end of January Microsoft released a optional update for Windows 7. Might as well try it, right? Ya, fail. I installed the update (along with a few other Win7 updates [...]
Just under a month ago, I installed Windows 7. The next day I noticed a freezing problem. Ok, so it wasn’t so much “freezing” as it was some sort of graphics issue. Initially tried disabling Windows Defender and EFS. I really had no idea what was causing it. And the few threads I found online didn’t seem to have any more of a clue than I. After taking a few minutes to think about it [...]
I think I was able to cure my Windows 7 freezing issues for good (OK, maybe not cure, but bypass). How? I disabled Aero and went back to Windows Classic. Hasn’t frozen since. In my last post I hinted at a video problem – and I suspect that may have been it. With Classic enabled, the Aero “Peek” and other little things like that are disabled with the Aero package as a whole. And like [...]
Just when I thought I got all of my computer problems straightened out… The “combo drive” (CDRW+DVDROM) in my Macbook decides to shit the bed. OK, so it’s not totally dead – but it makes some awful noises and decides to randomly spit out a disc it’s trying to read. Definitely a drive problem. Does the same thing in Windows. I wasn’t even able to play Starcraft that I installed on it. Just ejects my [...]
