Glonkster computer question thread number six million

[TCO]

My computer crashes occasionaly. Seems to happen when I'm surfing the net. Not sure if it is poly related. Or related to some bad sites.

It will crash in such a way so that I have to pull the plug AND the laptop battery to reset. Sometimes I will see the dim outline of some sort of message annoucement. But I can't read the message. Seems to crash in some manner which involves the computer really slowing down (i.e taking several minutes to execute a close window order).

It is a Dell.

Any clues?

I've always had this problem.

[Nubclear]

Re: Glonkster computer question thread number six million

Originally posted by TCO
It is a Dell.

[TCO]

oh and when it crashes, the history for that day gets messed up. Displays as numbers instead of websites (summary parts look right but the individual pages in hsitory, when you expand a summary, show as numbers not pages...or as different titles from what they normally do). And then later, I lose all those old numbers and even history of going to those pages.

[MRT144]

wierd

[Japher]

you have a crappy internet connection, your server is sheit... who do you subscribe to?

[Unspeakable Horror]

Numbers? Like IP numbers?

[TCO]

I have DSL from Verizon. Even if the connection is bad, shouldn't the computer not crash?

[TCO]

Originally posted by Unspeakable Horror
Numbers? Like IP numbers?

No. It is the post number (what comes right before .html on a forum post) for poly or for Analog site.

For pogo (bridge playing site) I get some stuff about frameset and such.

It's as if the history is remembering a part of the url instead of the page title (generally different from the url).

[Japher]

I don't know crap about computers. Everytime my computer at work crashes it's because the server gets clogged, or something like that. I usually just call IT and say "Hey, fix the my connection, damn it! I need to waste time on 'Poly!"

Also, the damn thing crashes everytime the stupid V-Sheild virus thingy tries to run when I switch pages.

I can't answer your question, but some one can I am sure.

[TCO]

[points finger like an imperious she-***** queen in a fantasy book] leave my thread, Japher [/points finger like an imperious she-***** queen in a fantasy book]

[Japher]

Sorry

[Skanky Burns]

Have you run virus/ad checking software recently?

[TCO]

no...

I will though.

[Unspeakable Horror]

Re: Glonkster computer question thread number six million

Originally posted by TCO
Sometimes I will see the dim outline of some sort of message annoucement. But I can't read the message. Seems to crash in some manner which involves the computer really slowing down (i.e taking several minutes to execute a close window order).

What OS are you using? If it´s 2000 (?) or XP go to Control Panel-> Administrative Tools -> Event Viewer there you will see a lot of stuff about crashes, etc it´s ordered by time, see if you can find the message.

[TCO]

There is a bunch of stuff in there. I think associated with my crashes.