What Have You Done Today - (Computer Version)

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Soon as I get some time on my laptop I will. I have the pictures taken but Picasa is being a slight pain in the ass on my phone right now.

Could be tonight, but should be good by at least tomorrow night.

EDIT: Sorry. I got the pics uploaded but forgot to post them last night due to some personal stuff.

I should have them up tomorrow night at the latest.
 
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Drained the water and installed my two GTX 680, now just bleeding the system poperly and I can OC the CPU back to 4Ghz :D
3Dmark11 benchmark next
 
Installed Wlan driver update, to the newest version, get disconnected and cannot reconnect. (thought it maybe an overheating problem)
Started it up this morning get BsoD, for updating WLAN driver.
Rolled back and everything works again.
 
Bought a few budget items so I could take my old PC parts out of retirement and put them in a "B system" to sell off. Pretty happy with the result.

Core 2 Quad Q6600 (G0) at 3.2GHz
Xigmatek Nepartak
Biostar TPower I45 (P45)
8GB DDR2 800
MSI Radeon HD 7770 1GB
PCP&C Silencer 600W Silencer MKIII
WD Caviar Black 1TB
LG DVD-RW
Corsair Carbide 200R
Win 8

The Carbide 200R is a surprisingly decent case. It's just very basic. The PSU is certainly overkill, but it'll provide room to grow and it was at a great price. It's also partially modular.
 
I think this is the best place to post this as I don't want to make a new thread for it, bear with me if its not.

The HDD in my 2011 MacBook Pro has started to make a clicking and clunking noise at regular intervals during use that it did not make before. A bit of research into this issue has indicated it may be the reader head hitting the disk or the 'Click of death', however I'm not sure how much I trust google on this point. I've carried out a full back up and also created a disk image (not sure if that will be useful) on my external hard drive whilst my internal one is still working.

Will it need replacing soon or should the drive continue to function normally even with this clicking sound? If it does need replacing what procedures should I go through whilst the drive is still working to ensure that I will have all of my data, programmes, OS etc when I install the new drive?

Thanks in advance for any help 👍
 
Well you've backed it up so I say just keep using it until it dies (if it dies that is) and worry about replacing it then. 👍
 
I did this yesterday but I've been noticing it over the years. The church computer hard drive was always being accessed and making annoying sounds. So I did a AVG scan(Found out they never did a manual scan before too!) while I was working on recording the sermon and 45 minutes later, one trojan virus found. All of the constant hard drive sounds are gone now and the computer is using less resources. I tried suggesting to the pastor to install malwarebytes and he told me no saying that the current system is fine. My preference is that you are better off with a Anti-Virus and a Anti-Malware combo to keep your system clean.
 
Planning the road to Sandy Bridge.
Found the CPU is creating a bottle neck for the GPUs, so February is upgrade time.
 
Korza
Well you've backed it up so I say just keep using it until it dies (if it dies that is) and worry about replacing it then. 👍
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I shall do.

As a bit of an update on its deterioration:
There was a loud clunk, followed a few moments later by the fans coming on at maximum use, a point at which I've not seen or heard them running at before. Leading me to think that maybe its a fan issue? However they have now returned to normal levels of operation.

I'm also struggling to find how to run a full system hardware check to see if that brings anything back. I've tried restarting holding D and alt D as suggested but to no avail. If anyone knows any other methods I would gladly hear them.
 
Minty
Soon as I get some time on my laptop I will. I have the pictures taken but Picasa is being a slight pain in the ass on my phone right now.

Could be tonight, but should be good by at least tomorrow night.

EDIT: Sorry. I got the pics uploaded but forgot to post them last night due to some personal stuff.

I should have them up tomorrow night at the latest.
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Or not...

Sorry, ended up having some pretty heavy distractions in the form of hunting everything that lives in FC3 with a bow. And work...work has been a pretty big one.


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Today? Well, I swapped out my submersible pump that died on me, rearranged and cut out about 3 foot of hose out of the system to improve water flow. It did help, but I am afraid that a second pump will be required.
 
Well not today but I finally got myself a decent keyboard recently.

Ducky Shine II.

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Now I just have to convince my feathered friend that this won't be happening anymore. :lol:

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Cheers Shaun.
 
Well today I had my MacBook repaired at the Apple shop, turns out it wasn't a hard drive issue but that the fans had failed completely causing overheating of the insides and the spindle to flex. £18 for a fitted fan replacement though so I cant complain 👍
 
Shaun
Now I just have to convince my feathered friend that this won't be happening anymore. :lol:
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Good luck with that, I have a cockatiel who 'haunts' my keyboard too... I'm more worried about his habit of sitting on my monitor (a Dell U2412M with the fairly rough and presumably hard-to-clean-bird-waste-out-of anti glare coating) but he's also nibbled a few small holes in the cable of my keyboard and mouse. Persistent little buggers really.
 
:lol:

Yeah, persistent and nosey.
Mine likes to sit on my shoulder watching what I'm doing when I'm on the pc.
They sure do have a personality, normally I find if I show her a bit of attention though she tends to stay out of mischief.

Cheera Shaun.
 
Got a little devasted on the weekend, when I found my 2TB data drive has crashed.
Only some clicking and that's it.
Put the disc now over night in the freezer and hope to recover at least my pictures and savegames.
 
Bought a Asus x53u laptop for my grandma since Christmas is coming. Thing was cheap on sale for like $250ish and all she's gonna do is browse the Internet here and there and send a couple emails. Doesn't need much power for that. I took it out the box to see how it is and set it up before hand so I don't have to do it Christmas day. Biggest piece of **** ever. Has so much garbage Asus programs loaded on and is slowest computer ever. It feels like this is '99 again. It is only 1ghz but dual core and 4gb of ram so I can't see how it's so slow. I guess it's still fine for small time sites and email so all is good for its purpose. However I did the updates and it took at least 4hrs to download and install. After all that was done and restart I used it for max 1hr and it blue screened lol. I restarted and it went away so I gave it a second chance. Played with it again max 1hr and it has no real programs on it just Google Chrome that I downloaded. Blue screen.... Needless to say **** this computer. Too bad cause it looked pretty nice.
 
Of course it's slow, that's the slowest AMD Fusion processor, at least do your research before you buy a product. I'd personally return that and get a laptop with an i3. They can be had for $30-$50 more.
 
nick09
Of course it's slow, that's the slowest AMD Fusion processor, at least do your research before you buy a product. I'd personally return that and get a laptop with an i3. They can be had for $30-$50 more.
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I only got this cause it was $100 off on sale for one day. New it would be bad but again not my computer and used for tiny work so should be fine which using Gmail and chrome it is fine. If you have literally any suggestions of an i3 computer for $300-330 or close please tell me. Right now I'm debating buying more ram so it has 8gb. The crashing is what I'm most worried a bit tho.
 

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