#computer issues

[stone-cold-groove]

Immunize yourself against computer viruses. Poster from the National Institutes of Health National Library of Medicine archive.

[kiriekonamistan]

This is the third time in a row that I've left a kudos on a fanfic and my username didn't show up in the list, AND, the number of other users who left a kudos didn't go up! I wasn't worried about it at first but now I'm starting to think there's some kind of glitch going on. This has happened to be before on rare occasions but it has never, NEVER happened THREE TIMES in a row!

I'm not mad at anyone, least of all the authors of those fics, I'm concerned and anxious about what's going on with Ao3 today…

Is this a glitch? Is it a connectivity issue? SOMEONE please help me understand what's going on. I want to be able to leave kudos on fanfics like normal again. Is there something wrong with my computer? Is it something wrong with Ao3??j

PLEASE, help me understand this issue.

[evilwriter37]

Okay, so, the driver for my laptop is still not working despite all the fixes I’ve tried. I’m posting the error message I get when it crashes ESO in hopes that maybe someone out there understands it better than me and knows how to fix it.

Error Message:

Fatal error: DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_REMOVED.

Failure Reason: DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_HUNG - The application's device failed due to badly formed commands sent by the application.

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Hoping I can fix this! The driver is NVIDA GeForce and my OS is Windows 11.

[swan2swan]

[aguyacrosstheinternet]

Today on PC problems that I could've solved if I weren't bloody stupid.

Trigger warning: Mentions of graphical interfaces Y'all ever had an error for ages that you could never fix; but now that you fixed it by accident, it was so fucking obvious all along?

For about half a year, I've been having issues with artifacting that was exclusive to using Plasma on Wayland at above 60Hz. Windows, Gnome Wayland, X11, all worked fine on 144Hz. Just not Plasma Wayland. White blocky stripes appearing and disappearing in a seemingly random order every second.

All a-fucking-long,

I had set the colour accuracy to "Prefer colour accuracy" that set the color resolution to 16 bits. My monitor can only cope with 10 bits, and I suppose my GPU outputs as well. Setting that to "prefer efficiency" and limiting colour resolution to 10 bits fixed it.

[lizzychanz]

I don't think I've ever been so thankful that my first drafts are all done with paper and pen.

I had to type up chapter 42 of The Cloning Secret twice. TWICE. I have no clue what happened, but my computer wiped my autosaved file. Completely. It even wiped the prev. saved versions of the file. So I retyped it. Then I edited it. Then I went to sleep and woke up to discover that the file wouldn't open. Nothing I did worked. BUT! there was a previously saved file I COULD open, which unfortunately was unedited and missing the last 500 words (which OF COURSE was the one part that WASN'T in my first draft, so i had to remember the new ending and retype that). So I redo the ending, then reedit it.

ffnet won't let me upload the chapter, but I think that's on their end and not mine. But it's finally FINALLY up on ao3. It should've been up a week ago. I need to try and figure out what's wrong with my computer and/or word program so i can fix it, but I'm just so done right now.

[miikarin]

I am slowly going to lose it - my wifi decided to randomly stop working the other night between me going to bed and then getting up the next day

I have tried everything and based on the brand new wifi adapter I just installed as a last ditch effort, I am starting to think I need a new motherboard or something

like the wifi is available and as far as I can tell it seems to be 'working' but troubleshooting shows me my media is disconnected and it just doesn't pick up any wifi networks

[nancylou444]

Not only did I get a new phone, but I also got a new computer, because my old one is incompatible to Windows 11 AND IT'S CRAP.

I want to get all my new tech ready because come October, I'm not going to be able to do a lot of things, like lift anything heavy.

BIG health issues, that I will let you know about because I might be away for a week or so. But not now.

Moving on......

My queues are filled up to Saturday.

I think I'm ready to unplug this piece of shit and take it to Staples to have its data transferred to my shiny new computer.

Then its the app (on my shiny new cellphone) until the transfer is done.