COMPUTER PROBLEM ?

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Intermittent severe pixelation; changing levels of severity.

Occasionally, the computer (in this condition) re-boots itself.

At other times, the picture is perfect and normal.

Any ideas ???

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It's catching your craziness, I expect. Either that or the hardware is failing (I'd suspect the power supply or RAM)

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@contrex,

contrex wrote:

It's catching your craziness, I expect. Either that or the hardware is failing (I'd suspect the power supply or RAM)

Thank u.

David

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@OmSigDAVID,

It might be one of several possibilities mentioned prior ... including the power supply, or video card or video RAM. My advice is that it's time to bring into competent computer repair shop for an estimate.

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@Ragman,

Ragman wrote:

It might be one of several possibilities mentioned prior ... including the power supply, or video card or video RAM.
My advice is that it's time to bring into competent computer repair shop for an estimate.

Yeah; thank u, but it has some secret information qua legal clients of mine.
I 'm concerned about this information being disclosed.
I 'm supposed to keep it confidential.

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@OmSigDAVID,

If your passwords are too simple, make them much more complex. Be sure to record any password changes. If they think they need anything beyond your windows password, make them explain why.

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@roger,

roger wrote:

If your passwords are too simple, make them much more complex. Be sure to record any password changes. If they think they need anything beyond your windows password, make them explain why.

Can the repairman get beyond the password, by his skill ?

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@OmSigDAVID,

Some of them, certainly. If they were motivated. I think most of the techs pretty much follow a routine procedure, and don't have the time or interest to go digging around.

Kind of like other privacy. We get more protection from the disinterest of others than the 4th amendment.

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@OmSigDAVID,

Do you keep the information backed up?

Probably the best thing to do a back up onto another hard drive, get the info out of the puter and take the puter in for a check up.

(how old is the computer? do you have it tuned up regularly?)

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@ehBeth,

That's a much better solution.

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@ehBeth,

ehBeth wrote:

Do you keep the information backed up?

Probably the best thing to do a back up onto another hard drive,
get the info out of the puter and take the puter in for a check up.

(how old is the computer? do you have it tuned up regularly?)

Its about 5 years old.
I did not know it coud be tuned up.

David

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@OmSigDAVID,

David, my three year old was crashing multiple times per day. The free tune-up at Staples totally cleared the problem.

I doubt this is a typical result, but there is something about the words 'free', and 'it works again' that are hard to resist.

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@roger,

roger wrote:

David, my three year old was crashing multiple times per day. The free tune-up at Staples totally cleared the problem.

I doubt this is a typical result, but there is something about the words 'free', and 'it works again' that are hard to resist.

THANK U FOR THAT INFORMATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I 'd not considered that, Roger.

David

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@OmSigDAVID,

OmSigDAVID wrote:

Its about 5 years old.
I did not know it coud be tuned up.

when did you last take it in (or have the geek squad in)?

you really need to do regular maintenance on a computer. five years old is verra old for a computer.

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@ehBeth,

OmSigDAVID wrote:

Its about 5 years old.
I did not know it coud be tuned up.

ehBeth wrote:

when did you last take it in (or have the geek squad in)?

Only when it was being installed, after my last one failed.

ehBeth wrote:

you really need to do regular maintenance on a computer.
five years old is verra old for a computer.

I see. Thank u.
At the time, I got the best that was available.

David

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@OmSigDAVID,

All computers need regular maintenance. Be aware that you could increase reliability as well as speed by having the fans cleaned 2x per year, and it saves the power supply from overheating and risking crashing of the hard drives, too.

Would you drive a car without changing the oil?

Also reg (data) maintenance removes a lot of data trash (cookies, pop-ups, tremp files, and registry errors). you can speed up an old computer by a significant amount by doing this type of effort.

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@OmSigDAVID,

OmSigDAVID wrote:

At the time, I got the best that was available.

the "best at the time" still needs maintenance

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For what it's worth, when I took it in, I was anticipating fairly expensive repairs. I told them I was not prepared to spend over 1/3 the cost of a replacement.

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@Ragman,

I should do that.

Fans, she says. What fans?

I'd erase cookies, but I fear for loss of some key websites, a2k being one. If you erase the whole batch, do the sites ask you to accept cookies the next time you try to access them? Years ago, I tried to handpick cookies to delete, but quickly bored of it.

If I could erase all but certain sites' cookies, I'd do it.. if cookies do make a difference. I haven't been sure that they do.

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@ossobuco,

The very next time you log into a site, you create cookies again. You already should have A2K as a favorite site so the cookies are semi-irrelevant. I believe that all you would need to do (after deleting cookies) is to put your password in again upon relogging itno a site. Not a big deal...unless your forgot your password etc.

All key websites you can create (or have already created) in favorites list. The only downside is you need to relog in the next time and tell it to remember your password etc.

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