You need the RAM for it to function…
If you’re bent on fixing your computer, do a bare bones system (Power supply, CPU, Mobo (onboard video if you got it), a graphics card, and a stick of ram) then try to start it up. If it posts, turn it off, disconnect it, and then plug in a new part.
You need to plug in a screen or a speaker, or you won’t be able to tell if it posts at all.
Either way.
The person I mentioned a page ago hasn’t reached out to me (and I’ve reached out to her several times)… thinking the worst here and going stir crazy… fuck…
should still give me an error or something in the POST screen, which is how I know the RAM isn’t at fault (I don’t get anything on my monitor, PC just shuts down after a few seconds).
Probably mobo, cpu, gpu, I don’t know.
Sounds like overclocking failed error, you should give it time to restart on its own (usually about 5 seconds after it auto-shuts down) and to ChickenProtector, it’s not your responsibility, don’t beat yourself up over it.
OMGGGGGGGGGGGGGG the new “security” feature for hotmail is a fucking piece of shit
you need to have a second email address attached to your account. each time you log on to a new computer, you need “verify” it by having it send a code to your secondary email before you can log on
except it doesnt send the code at first, first it sends another email which lets you go through the steps again
… or something, it’s confusing as hell, i just entered the inbox immediately when i went back to hotmail.com oO
and the worst thing is that i’m doing this for my mother’s hotmail account (with my email as secondary) because its over her head, and its a pain in the ass
I lost an @live email I’ve had since sometime before 2009 because it required an SMS verification when I logged in, but that number got disconnected.
I have to deal with that on a daily basis when my skype client updates. I feel your pain.
I trip SteamGuard almost every time I login to the Steam Store through a browser, or if the Steam client has a fit and forces me to re-login (tends to happen during big sales… which usually results in the code email taking hours to show up)
:meh:
Goddamnit amazon still hasn’t shipped my fucking RAM.
cancel the order and buy some other ram
Are you speaking from experience?
It’s the logical thing to do you dolt.
if there’s nothing stopping you from cancelling the order, why wouldn’t you? you’re missing out on your cool new rig in the meantime
For one thing, the RAM was on sale when I bought it, and it was some of the cheapest I could find.
Edit: And they just shipped it.
so cheap it could be a scam?
like, so cheap it was almost… too good to be true?
Update: My friend managed to pull through by some fucking miracle. It’s by no means over, but it seems to be going good… for now. Guess I’ll know in 'bout 2 months when all this comes to a head again.
I want to dual-boot my machine into Windows 7 and Manjaro Linux, so that I can both work and play and I can code on my 24" desktop screen instead of being stuck on my dinky 15" laptop. However, my Windows 7 setup has a striped RAID array, two 3TB disks in a 6TB volume. Linux cannot recognize a Windows striped disk setup, which is less than convenient, because I’d like to be able to access all of my media and stuff regardless of which OS I’m booted in.
So, I’d like to destroy the striped array and instead just have two 3TB disks. There’s less than 1TB of stuff on the 6TB volume right now. It would be really nice if I could shrink the striped partition, leaving empty volumes at the ends of both 3TB drives. Then I could format those, move all of the stuff off the striped partition onto them, destroy the striped partition, and grow the two volumes that were on the ends of the disks into the space that was occupied by the shrunken striped volume.
But no, Windows can’t make it that easy… can’t shrink a striped volume. The only other storage drive in this PC is a 1TB drive that’s mostly full of Steam games. I was able to make ~300GB of room on it for some of my stuff. The rest of the stuff I managed to pare down to ~290GB, which will fit on my laptop’s hard drive, so I’m transferring it over my home network at about 2.5MB/s, which the laptop estimates will take literally all weekend. Fun.
EDIT: Fuck this. I would have to transfer it all back over when I got the partition destroyed, too. I still have a 6-7 year old 500GB hard drive lying around; I’ll stick it back in my desktop and transfer to that.
Well, this is embarrassing.
I just spent the last half hour or so trying to figure out how to download a 64 bit windows ISO using a 32 bit OS, only to look at my system information and realize that I actually was running a 64 bit OS the entire time. :retard:
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