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  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,279
    edited May 10

    miladyderyni_173d399f47 said:

    Richard Haseltine said:

    Xyetzt said:

    Why do I want to say Hey Jude when I think of Jude?

    That is obscure to me.

    And to me, as well as dear Mr. T. Hardy. 

    I pondered on it too, but decided it was better being obscure than obtuse.indecision

     

    Complaint:  Arghhh... ants in the mailbox.  This morning while laying out my pills for the week into their daily pill holder, I paniced for a moment when I realized that I was running out of one of the prescriptions for the week.  Then I remembered that I'd authorized mail delivery of that prescription and that it should have arrived YESTERDAY.  But, being lazy I hadn't gotten dressed enough (put shoes on) to toddle down the stony driveway to the mailbox and my pills might be out there in that hot, metal mailbox cooking all the goodness out of them.  So, I begrudgingly donned my shoes and made the trip to the mailbox, opened it up and..., nope, no prescription, but there was an advertisement for some phone service or other.  I grabbed it, and started back up the driveway when I realized I had tiny little black ants crawling up my arm that was holding the mail.  Arghhh... frantic dance of dismay to shake off the ants.  Sigh.  This happens every Spring.  Warm weather seems to prompt ants to go looking for another place to set up house and for some reason they find my mailbox and bring half their family with them.sad   So, now I have to find my can of ant spray, and a brush to sweep out the dead ants and their eggs.  Why, why do they like my mailbox so much?indecision  And the question still remains; where is my prescription?angry

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  • butterflyfishbutterflyfish Posts: 1,579

    AgitatedRiot said:

    butterflyfish said:

    AgitatedRiot said:

    Getting close. It's either the processor or the video card. Let's stress that the GPU.

    FurMark2 download | Geeks3D

    OK, I ran the test for about 30 minutes with no crashing (see image).

    The repair guy did have me borrow a GTX1080 8GB, and it did the same thing (rebooted). He also said he put in a different processor and that did it, too. IDK how that figures in.

    So he didn't reinstall Windows. So now I'm thinking that some program or other messing with the OS could be a random DLL. Does it show you a message or something when it reboots, like 'Your computer encoutered problem needs to restart ', or does it reboot without a message?" If it gives an error code at the bottom, write it down and give it to me.

    Forgot to ask, is your repair guy from a company or a buddy?

     

    No, he didn't reinstall. I have 3 drives (C is a 512GB SSD, D & E are HDDs, 4T and 8T respectively). He wanted to wipe them all and rearrange everything so I only have the Windows drive and the programs drive. I was not excited about this.

    I don't get a message or a blue screen or anything. It just goes black and then reboots. Occasionally, if it does it a few times in a row, it says it's trying to repair itself during boot up, then tells me it couldn't, and asks if I want to continue to Windows.

    The repair guy runs his own small shop(s). He's got one near my house, and a second one out of town. 

  • butterflyfishbutterflyfish Posts: 1,579

    LeatherGryphon said:

    miladyderyni_173d399f47 said:

    Richard Haseltine said:

    Xyetzt said:

    Why do I want to say Hey Jude when I think of Jude?

    That is obscure to me.

    And to me, as well as dear Mr. T. Hardy. 

    I pondered on it too, but decided it was better being obscure than obtuse.indecision

     

    Complaint:  Arghhh... ants in the mailbox.  This morning while laying out my pills for the week into their daily pill holder, I paniced for a moment when I realized that I was running out of one of the prescriptions for the week.  Then I remembered that I'd authorized mail delivery of that prescription and that it should have arrived YESTERDAY.  But, being lazy I hadn't gotten dressed enough (put shoes on) to toddle down the stony driveway to the mailbox and my pills might be out there in that hot, metal mailbox cooking all the goodness out of them.  So, I begrudgingly donned my shoes and made the trip to the mailbox, opened it up and..., nope, no prescription, but there was an advertisement for some phone service or other.  I grabbed it, and started back up the driveway when I realized I had tiny little black ants crawling up my arm that was holding the mail.  Arghhh... frantic dance of dismay to shake off the ants.  Sigh.  This happens every Spring.  Warm weather seems to prompt ants to go looking for another place to set up house and for some reason they find my mailbox and bring half their family with them.sad   So, now I have to find my can of ant spray, and a brush to sweep out the dead ants and their eggs.  Why, why do they like my mailbox so much?indecision  And the question still remains; where is my prescription?angry

    Argh! Ants! We had an ant invasion today, too. Little bitty horrble ants! They're coming in the house at several points. We put out a couple of Terro traps, and I ordered a bunch more from Amazon. I hope you can get rid of your ants, and that you get your prescription soon.

  • AgitatedRiotAgitatedRiot Posts: 4,740
    edited May 10

    butterflyfish said:

    AgitatedRiot said:

    butterflyfish said:

    AgitatedRiot said:

    Getting close. It's either the processor or the video card. Let's stress that the GPU.

    FurMark2 download | Geeks3D

    OK, I ran the test for about 30 minutes with no crashing (see image).

    The repair guy did have me borrow a GTX1080 8GB, and it did the same thing (rebooted). He also said he put in a different processor and that did it, too. IDK how that figures in.

    So he didn't reinstall Windows. So now I'm thinking that some program or other messing with the OS could be a random DLL. Does it show you a message or something when it reboots, like 'Your computer encoutered problem needs to restart ', or does it reboot without a message?" If it gives an error code at the bottom, write it down and give it to me.

    Forgot to ask, is your repair guy from a company or a buddy?

     

    No, he didn't reinstall. I have 3 drives (C is a 512GB SSD, D & E are HDDs, 4T and 8T respectively). He wanted to wipe them all and rearrange everything so I only have the Windows drive and the programs drive. I was not excited about this.

    I don't get a message or a blue screen or anything. It just goes black and then reboots. Occasionally, if it does it a few times in a row, it says it's trying to repair itself during boot up, then tells me it couldn't, and asks if I want to continue to Windows.

    The repair guy runs his own small shop(s). He's got one near my house, and a second one out of town. 

    If Windows tries to repair itself during boot but fails with "Automatic Repair couldn’t repair your PC", it means the startup recovery process couldn't find or fix the underlying cause. This can be due to boot sector corruption, damaged system files, BCD issues, hardware faults, or driver conflicts 

    Ok, let's do this one at a time.

    Turn your PC on and off three times in a row. On the third restart, Windows should load the Windows Recovery Environment

    In Command Prompt, run:

    bootrec.exe /rebuildbcd
bootrec.exe /fixmbr
bootrec.exe /fixboot

    These commands rebuild the BCD and repair the MBR

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  • AgitatedRiotAgitatedRiot Posts: 4,740

    Did your guy update the BIOS?

    Update Secure Boot Certificates for Windows Devices - Windows Client | Microsoft Learn

  • butterflyfishbutterflyfish Posts: 1,579
    edited May 10

    What am I doing wrong? 

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  • butterflyfishbutterflyfish Posts: 1,579

    AgitatedRiot said:

    Did your guy update the BIOS?

    Update Secure Boot Certificates for Windows Devices - Windows Client | Microsoft Learn

    Yes. I'm on F11b from 6/10/2025 

  • AgitatedRiotAgitatedRiot Posts: 4,740

    Click Start > Settings > Update & security > Recovery > under Advanced Startup, click Restart now. Then run the commands and write them down; you will not have access to them.

  • AgitatedRiotAgitatedRiot Posts: 4,740

    Just type "advanced startup" in the search box; they moved it to System > Recovery > Advanced Startup. Click Restart, choose Command Prompt. You could use the auto repair, but I suspect that won't work

  • butterflyfishbutterflyfish Posts: 1,579

    I found it. I ran the first two and they said they were successful, but when I ran the third one it said "Access is Denied"

  • AgitatedRiotAgitatedRiot Posts: 4,740

    Test it out yet.

    To see if it still crashes?

  • AgitatedRiotAgitatedRiot Posts: 4,740

    butterflyfish said:

    I found it. I ran the first two and they said they were successful, but when I ran the third one it said "Access is Denied"

    Not the first time I heard that. 

  • butterflyfishbutterflyfish Posts: 1,579

    BRB

  • butterflyfishbutterflyfish Posts: 1,579
    edited May 10

    Nope. I managed to play Planet Coaster for 11 minutes, then it rebooted. 

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  • AgitatedRiotAgitatedRiot Posts: 4,740
    edited May 10

    Run CMD with admin privilege type chkdsk /f, hit enter, follow the instructions, schedule on next restart

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  • AgitatedRiotAgitatedRiot Posts: 4,740

    Also, maybe go here to update all your Intel drivers. With the auto-updater software they have. 

    Intel® Driver & Support Assistant

  • butterflyfishbutterflyfish Posts: 1,579

    OK, I ran chkdsk. I already had that Intel software installed, and it says everything is up to date.

  • AgitatedRiotAgitatedRiot Posts: 4,740

    Let me know what happens, and we'll move to the next step. Maybe tomorrow I will only have one appointment.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,199

    ,..where can I find a record of support tickets I filed?  I still have a product that I returned for refund a while back showing in the Ready to Download section of the IM.  In the IM it  the order date shows as being 13.01.2025, but in the listing of Orders on my Account page the purchase date was 11.03.2026 (which is the correct one) .I also looked at Store Credit and I was not credited for the return which I made within the 30 day refund window.

  • AgitatedRiotAgitatedRiot Posts: 4,740

    kyoto kid said:

    ,..where can I find a record of support tickets I filed?  I still have a product that I returned for refund a while back showing in the Ready to Download section of the IM.  In the IM it  the order date shows as being 13.01.2025, but in the listing of Orders on my Account page the purchase date was 11.03.2026 (which is the correct one) .I also looked at Store Credit and I was not credited for the return which I made within the 30 day refund window.

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  • butterflyfishbutterflyfish Posts: 1,579

    AgitatedRiot said:

    Let me know what happens, and we'll move to the next step. Maybe tomorrow I will only have one appointment.

    I made it 12 minutes before crashing. 

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,199
    edited May 11

    AgitatedRiot said:

    kyoto kid said:

    ,..where can I find a record of support tickets I filed?  I still have a product that I returned for refund a while back showing in the Ready to Download section of the IM.  In the IM it  the order date shows as being 13.01.2025, but in the listing of Orders on my Account page the purchase date was 11.03.2026 (which is the correct one) .I also looked at Store Credit and I was not credited for the return which I made within the 30 day refund window.

    Help center sign in, then click on your avatar, then click on My Activities.

    ...thank you.

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  • miladyderyni_173d399f47miladyderyni_173d399f47 Posts: 2,819

    Non-complaints:

    1. We had Mother's Day dinner with both kids at Son's apartment. Daughter brought brownies with hazelnuts & caramel with a frosting that included honey! Son made homemade pizzas plus there was fruit & some spinach dip poppers. Delicious. I may not need to eat for days. (Thread title is very apt)

    2. We are getting fiber optic internet at last!

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,279
    edited May 11

    miladyderyni_173d399f47 said:

    Non-complaints:

    1. We had Mother's Day dinner with both kids at Son's apartment. Daughter brought brownies with hazelnuts & caramel with a frosting that included honey! Son made homemade pizzas plus there was fruit & some spinach dip poppers. Delicious. I may not need to eat for days. (Thread title is very apt)

    2. We are getting fiber optic internet at last!

    #1: Mmmm...smiley

    #2:  Wheee...yes 

    Post edited by LeatherGryphon on
  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,378

    Richard Haseltine said:

    Xyetzt said:

    Why do I want to say Hey Jude when I think of Jude?

    That is obscure to me.

    I get the connection, but many today probably wouldn't.  The Beatles song, Hey Jude, was in the late '60's.  Very popular at the time.  But I don't hear the name anymore, except the children's hospital name. 

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,279
    edited May 11

    Sometimes when I go to the hospital or testing lab and the nurse asks my date of birth, I'll give it and then say "same year that "Ed Sullivan" started on TV.  Then I ask, Do you even know who Ed Sullivan was?  If so, I say "cool".  If not, then I ask do you know who "The Beatles" were?  If not, then I feel old, but will explain it to them if they ask.  I started thinking I was old when I visited a miltary base 40 years ago and saw children with machine guns at the gate.  In the hospital they're using needles and poking holes in my body.frown

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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 110,019

    DanaTA said:

    Richard Haseltine said:

    Xyetzt said:

    Why do I want to say Hey Jude when I think of Jude?

    That is obscure to me.

    I get the connection, but many today probably wouldn't.  The Beatles song, Hey Jude, was in the late '60's.  Very popular at the time.  But I don't hear the name anymore, except the children's hospital name. 

    I know the song (it's a bit younger than me), I was rferring to Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,279

    Complaint:  My cardiologist has been playing musical appointment dates with me.  I think this is the 3rd time it's changed.  Originally was next week, then he changed it, twice.   But had me coming in late afternoon.  I don't do late afternoons (transportation problems), so I had to change it again.  Which means that it has had to be pushed out to the end of August in order to get a morning appointment.frown

  • SilverGirlSilverGirl Posts: 3,540

    How do people in Western countries not know who the Beatles are? 

    I have two kids of the current whippersnapper generation in my house, and the one who is capable of knowing things about music definitely knows who the Beatles are. Likewise Simon and Garfunkle (and probably knows the words to several songs). 

    ...and now that I think about it, most of ther exposure to that generation of music all came from listening to music jams with a whole lot of hippie musicians (many of them OG hippies) after hours at Renn Faire, so maybe we're not a good case study.

    More recent vintage, but Teen Kiddo's reaction to the original "Highway to Hell" was pretty funny, though. They were unimpressed and liked the cover from https://m.youtube.com/c/StaryOlsa better. I have to agree that the medieval instruments definitely add a certain something.

  • garrett_3dgarrett_3d Posts: 284

    I know who The Beatles are. Never could stand them though, Scouse gits laugh

    Much prefer The Hollies.

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