06-02-2016, 04:01 AM
(06-02-2016, 03:48 AM)Surge Wrote: I'd be worried too computers and software are so fickle and hard to read and they can fuck themselves almost irreversibly at the drop of a hat with ZERO provocation. I can't recall the last time something went seriously wrong with my computer or any computer I was using that made an ounce of sense in symptom, cause, or solution.
Very rarely do I actually have something bad happen to my computers. I think over the course of the 3 computers I've owned over the course of probably around 10 years, I've had MAYBE a grand total of 20 crashes/bluescreens/freezes, all of which were fixed by turning it off and on again (hey, it's actually good advice, go figure).
Of course, I've never customized any of my computers' hardware, nor have I tried overclocking, and I'm generally pretty good at keeping the software side of things running smooth by not downloading anything suspicious, regular disk cleaning and defrag, etc.
To put it into perspective, less than half of those crashes were on my first computer, which was a very weak, pretty sure 32 bit Vista, small laptop. It ran decently well while I used it. I somehow got a Vista computer to work decent for like 3-5 years... And when it finally failed, it was the screen that gave out (specifically, the hardware responsible for making the screen dark when it goes to sleep broke and the monitor was perma-dark.)
My Dad "fixed" it (i.e. cut the wire responsible, which is now sticking out of the side of the computer), formatted the thing after I got my stuff off to my 2nd computer, installed Windows 7, and gave it to my Mom... She still uses it. It's like... potentially a decade old.
So it always confuses me when people seem to have a bunch of major problems with their computers. Maybe I'm just lucky or something. The only problem I currently have is that on my 2nd computer, a Win7 laptop, the anti-hacking addon for MMOs GameGuard will cause it to bluescreen without fail when I try to play certain games... Which I STILL have no idea what the cause of is... It used to work.