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Title: Will my computer break soon?
Post by: RiMiNi on July 26, 2009, 06:24:51 PM
Don't know the actual specs but its 6 years old and recently its been making funny noises etc. Also its pretty slow (though that's probably because its filled with junk) and has been getting weird dots on the screen/dp

or could it be my monitor? =[

(http://i30.tinypic.com/2qi08l2.jpg)

(http://i30.tinypic.com/jah1rl.jpg)
Title: Re: Will my computer break soon?
Post by: Eiii on July 26, 2009, 09:11:06 PM
Modified textures = ban

If it's just in paintball, reinstall paintball. If it's other places as well, check your memory. If that's all okay, then I would guess that you need a new video card.
Title: Re: Will my computer break soon?
Post by: RiMiNi on July 26, 2009, 09:25:40 PM
No its not just pball, what exactly do you mean check your memory? What am i checking for?  :-[
Title: Re: Will my computer break soon?
Post by: Eiii on July 26, 2009, 10:57:07 PM
Ah, I believe something memtest-y (http://www.google.com/search?q=memtest) would work. But really, I bet Knack knows more about it than I do.
Title: Re: Will my computer break soon?
Post by: SuperMAn on July 27, 2009, 12:36:12 AM
If your computer is making funny noises, your fans are probably getting old and dirty.
Title: Re: Will my computer break soon?
Post by: ViciouZ on July 27, 2009, 10:32:39 AM
Modified textures = ban

If it's just in paintball, reinstall paintball. If it's other places as well, check your memory. If that's all okay, then I would guess that you need a new video card.

Modified textures where?

Also, those dots in the sky, do they move when you do? Or are they stationary, as in on the monitor itself?
Title: Re: Will my computer break soon?
Post by: Zorchenhimer on July 27, 2009, 10:35:03 AM
The black wall in the background of the second sshot.
Title: Re: Will my computer break soon?
Post by: ViciouZ on July 27, 2009, 10:45:46 AM
The black wall in the background of the second sshot.

Orite. Thought that was a bug, sometimes walls flicker black/textured when I move on my laptop (ATi :P).
Title: Re: Will my computer break soon?
Post by: FluKe on July 27, 2009, 12:40:30 PM
yea on my laptop they go clear sometimes.
Title: Re: Will my computer break soon?
Post by: Eiii on July 27, 2009, 04:03:46 PM
The black wall in the background of the second sshot.

I was kidding. :P
Title: Re: Will my computer break soon?
Post by: flip on July 28, 2009, 10:10:25 PM
yea on my laptop they go clear sometimes.

Greatest reply to a thread in forever.
Title: Re: Will my computer break soon?
Post by: RiMiNi on August 27, 2009, 07:03:41 PM
Well, finally got around to it since my problems have gotten worse. The memtest said there were no problems.. so it's probably my video card?

PS. new symptoms:
-extremely slow
-internet disconnects on and off all the time
-computer totally freezes often
-startup is slow
-the pixels you see in my screenies above have gotten more extreme and more frequent
Title: Re: Will my computer break soon?
Post by: RoBbIe on August 27, 2009, 07:07:50 PM
viruses? or Maybe a early warning of a total computer crash, you might want to back up your important files or all files....
Title: Re: Will my computer break soon?
Post by: Justinph5 on August 27, 2009, 08:32:37 PM
Just back up your HD. Last time I moved to a new computer, the HD one of the few things I was keeping. While moving it, it became destroyed somehow, and :(
Title: Re: Will my computer break soon?
Post by: RiMiNi on August 28, 2009, 10:31:05 AM
Just back up your HD. Last time I moved to a new computer, the HD one of the few things I was keeping. While moving it, it became destroyed somehow, and :(

Thanks, I was hoping to salvage this as long as I could since my dad bought a mac and won't buy a new pc if this one dies.
Title: Re: Will my computer break soon?
Post by: eMo on August 28, 2009, 07:38:57 PM
id be lookin into a new video card man, exact same thing happend to me when i melted my card into my motherboard :p
dp2 seems to be rough on video cards =\
Title: Re: Will my computer break soon?
Post by: Spook on August 28, 2009, 09:24:48 PM
Actually, I find that to be true too. DP was the only game that ever crashed my one of my 9800 GTX's, Crysis, Counter Strike, Crysis Wars. Nothing.
Title: Re: Will my computer break soon?
Post by: nook on August 29, 2009, 07:57:58 AM
Actually, I find that to be true too. DP was the only game that ever crashed my one of my 9800 GTX's, Crysis, Counter Strike, Crysis Wars. Nothing.
weird....
Title: Re: Will my computer break soon?
Post by: i_am_a_pirate on September 07, 2009, 01:33:10 PM
my dad bought a mac and won't buy a new pc if this one dies.
*awkward silence*
Good on ya, mate!

It looks like the first ss is just because people have been shoting the wall, but I'm not entirely sure :D
Title: Re: Will my computer break soon?
Post by: _burnt on September 07, 2009, 01:46:13 PM
It looks like the first ss is just because people have been shoting the wall, but I'm not entirely sure :D

From when there has been cyan colored team?
Title: Re: Will my computer break soon?
Post by: eMo on September 07, 2009, 03:04:06 PM
this is what mine looked like right before it died.
Title: Re: Will my computer break soon?
Post by: Justinph5 on September 07, 2009, 04:06:27 PM
Lightning struck my neighbors router that I was hard wired to... Now, my MB's network card and the network cable are both fried.... I'll have to buy a new one, and re-bury new network cable all the way to my neighbors house...  :/
Title: Re: Will my computer break soon?
Post by: JiGSaW on September 09, 2009, 09:47:41 AM
Just download Tune-Up Utilities 2009 and run some of that stuff.


But really, that'll just help with all of the useless stuff you have, but it's definitely your video card going bad.