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Non-complaint: Passport application appointment dealt with. Now I just have to hope that the postal carrier actually delivers my passport (and the originals of my paperwork, which they took) to MY house and not one of the random neighbors down the block.
Had to drop Little Dude with my folks while I dealt with it... Mom came out to fetch him from the car, and he grinned up at her and announced "So much fun!!!" which completely melted my heart.
complaint: Now we're back home, because he was clearly getting tired, and the transition is not going well at all. Sigh. Well, if anyone got the easy one, I'm glad it was my folks.
What an adorable thing for him to say! Sorry about the hard transition.
Complaint: I think I have to buy a new computer. My whole PC crashes and reboots after rendering for a random amount of time. It does it during certain games, too, so it's not specifically DS related. The repair guy says that all the parts are working fine, so it must be a software issue. He wants me to save out my data and then have me completely start over with a fresh installation of Windows. I'm iffy on whether it's worth it to spend time and money chasing a random software issue. I hate spending money, and I'd have to finance it, but I would be getting a better PC (and graphics card) than what I have now, so there's that.
I'd say the chances are you are running out of vRAM and it's causing Windows to crash. An upgrade is probably a good idea.
If it is only just happening, with activities that were OK before, I would suspect overheating as a first thing to check. Tool like GPUz and HW Monitor will check those as you work, with suitable anti-static precautiions a can of air or an electronics-safe blower would clean dust.
Thanks, guys. I haven't seen any overheating. I was using Core Temp to check it. Maybe a more sophisticated software would do better?
I only have an RTX3050 8GB for my graphics card. Could that be part of my problem? I turned off CPU rendering so it goes to black if the scene doesn't fit.
I'm having second thoughts about this job application.
My first guess was overheating, too, but if that's not it... Are your drivers up to date? I know that can cause problems, and would hopefully be a reasonably easy fix.
Yeah, I don't have any updates available. I'm on 596.36. And the computer repair guy switched me from the game ready to the studio driver, so that wasn't it, either.
Does Core temp give temperature readngs for multple sensors, or just an overall value? HWMonitor and GPU Z give a pretty detailed breakdown.
It might also be the PSU under load giuving issues, though I would have thought the tech would have checked that.
My PSU is an 850, and NewEgg says I only need a 600-650 for power, so I don't *think* that's it.
This is what I get from Core Temp
That's only the CPU, though. If thiis is happening in rendering and games it would be more likely to be the GPU that is overheating (if anything is).
PSUs do degrade with time, how old is it? (Not that I am wedded to the idea, it is just another thing that could throw the odd glitch that might be related to system load.)
It's 2 years old. I upgraded it in early 2024 when I upgraded my motherboard and put in the CPU I got from AgitatedRiot (thank you again, AR).
edit: I've had it rendering the UltraScenery scene that it crashed on the other day for over 9 minutes now, and the GPU is at 60°C or so, which 72°C as the hotspot. It hasn't crashed yet, but would it suddenly get hotter later in the render?
If it's a job where you don't really care whether you get it or not (and I wouldn't if I had to answer a question like that) is say 'The money'. And maybe add in 'Stupid questions get stupid answers'. Wouldn't do your application chances any good, but it might make them think about their questions in the future. Assuming, of course, that humans see the replies to do the siftingand it's not left to AI.
Regards,
Richard
I sometimes think if I say I like money, people would take it wrong.
It could do, yes - though generally only a little after the first little while. That does look fairly reasonable, I think, though I started typing this without checking exactly which GPU you have. It could be something as simple as a fan sticking, which would, spike the temperature and so cause a crash/system shut down - that would be hard to spot unless you saw the temperature spike or heard the fan noise change just before a crash.
Your position in that chair you are sitting.
Lots of companies are using AI (or old fashioned algorithms) to evaluate job applications. Those that don't often task lower-tier human employees.
I'd be tempted to put "Somewhere that isn't your employer."
A fun project I did today.
Non-complaint: It ain't broken! I have a long relationship with Oneida silverware (i.e. tableware). Good quality, pervasive. At one time they sold half of all silverware in the US. Sets of their tableware could be pricey. Good heavy stainless steel tableware, fancy designs, many ancillary pieces. At one time, at the beginning of my own home experience in the early '70s, they advertised in various magazines to give you a free place setting (knife, fork, spoon) if you registered for a subscription to buy more pieces monthly. I did that, and got my free place setting and perhaps one more before I cancelled the subscription. Then I saw another magazine with the same offer. So, I got the free setting and perhaps purchased one more, then quit the subscription. I did this over and over and, eventually had 12 sets and several serving pieces, (ladles, tablespoons, pie knives, meat forks, etc. )
I loved my collection and it hadn't really cost much because of all the freebies and discounted pieces. But apparently that was during the time when Oneida was going through financial troubles. And eventually, they sold out, and the marketing, and quality went downhill a bit. Fast forward to the time when I lost everything in the financial crash after 9/11 when the towers came down. I had auctioned off all of my household goods including the kitchen pots, pans & silverware, then lived out of boxes at my Aunt's home in Florida for a while until I got back on my feet and started housekeeping up here in western NY State. I needed new tableware so I looked for Oneida and got a cheap set of eight from WalMart. Not the same quality, semi-sharp edges on the spoon & fork handles, minor flaws in the stamped design, but still good, useful tools, and I assumed still made of stainless steel.
HOWEVER, after a few years I noticed that my spoons were getting a bronze color in the bowls of the spoons. Arghhh, don't tell me these are electroplated bronze tools instead of stainless steel.
I've lived with that thought for 10 years or so, sadly noticing my spoons going bronzer and bronzer over time. I'd tried rubbing them to see if it was just a stain, but it seemed to have no effect. Sigh.
HOWEVER, today, I got a bee in my bonnet and started scrubbing the spoons HARD, and lo-and-behold, the bronze coloring came away and there was bright stainless steel underneath. Yay! Happy, happy. Joy, joy. So, apparently it is coffee or tea staining on my spoons and all I have to do is SCRUB and SCRUB and I'll get my bright shiney tableware back. Wheee... life is good.
Oneida still viable.
The Oneida silerware/flatware made after 2005 is imported and not the same quality. The original factory is now operated as Liberty Tabletop
Just came back from a walk to CVS to get some prints and walked home. I did not want for my prints to come so I walked home. I need to go back to the kitchen to look at my new prints. Some of them are for my mum for mother's day.
I have an RTX 3050 8GB. But the repair guy did loan me a GTX1080 8GB, and it did the same thing. So unless there's something causing both of them to overheat, the graphics card shouldn't be the problem.
Yes, that does largely absolve the GPU itself. Memory is quite limited, at least for Iray, especially on the 1080 (because that uses an extra ~1GB to simulate the RTX features).
Complaint :Kitchen sink backing up .....Liquid Plumber didn't help ,guess it's call a plumber in the morning
Yeah, the 1080 wasn't doing much in DS. I ended up test-crashing it with a game instead, IIRC.
The repair guy thinks the problem is that "Windows 11 is scattered across multiple drives." But I have no clue how that could have happened since I bought the PC with Win11 already on it, and it only had one drive at the time. I have programs installed on my D and E drives, but that's all I've done. Apparently the solution for this problem is wiping all the drives and reinstalling. But I'm starting to feel like I just have a piece of junk that needs retiring.
Hmm, the whole diagnosis sounds weird and doesn't inspire confidence. t could well be a driver issue or some kind of conflict, but a compleet wipe still seems drastic. Have you tried system file checker (SFC), a built-iin tool that can check for bad/damaged bits of Windows itself?
I haven't. I will look into that. Thanks.
edit: Well, I ran it (preceded by DISM because Google told me to). It found some stuff and repaired it, but I got 24 minutes into a render and it rebooted anyway.
I was thinking of Bad Wolf.