I'm meltinggggggggggggggggggggg my PC

looks like most or all of my PC crashing problems have been caused by over heating
YAY
easy to fix

evidently the tards who write the software for the video card automatic fan setting think ROASTING HOT is an ok temp. (they were running the fan at 15% while the card was 60c YOUCH)

turned it up by hand to 50% and TADA, much cooler, still cant hear squat and tada no crashes since then.

EVEREST ultimate addition
talk about lots of stuff about your PC all in one place
http://www.lavalys.com/

my PC is trying to kill me.

so, my PC continues to do its CRASH thingy. after more google searches, I started to read some of the CLOSE but not quite what I was getting problems.

"PC HANGS but then recovers"

I thought my PC was COMPLETELY dying. but, when it finally happened again, I didnt reboot. I just left it sitting there and waited.

TADA
NEW INFORMATION
my PC "recovered" after a few mins???
"Display driver amdkmdap stopped responding and has successfully recovered"
got this EXACT thing 3 times last night.
YAY something NEW

search on THIS gave me completely different leads.
from memory setting problems to weird windows patches to loose video card power connectors to wonky power supply problems.

yes all the drivers are up to date

so in some ways this is good news, I have a new msg to research and track down.
rather than a vague feeling that the soundcard/ventrilo were causing crashes.

YAY

2010 03 30 - crash

crashed again at ~9:40 pm ....
ventrillo was running
wow
virtualbox
a ton of IE8 websites open

keep in mind that probably the ONE variable all day was VENT
didnt open vent until raid time ~8pm ....
everything else was open all day ....


my next PLAN
is to close everything before I raid tomorrow (assuming I raid) ....

also going to think about creating some virtual memory

another point of order ....

my C drive is a RAID-0, 2 drive, SSD
is it possible that the SSD's are causing something ......

oh yes
after rebooting
I started vent and wow
played for 2 more hours and had no crash ....
which doesnt rule out anything but ....

installing winxp in a virtual box

14:16 pressed go using an ISO on and existing HD
GAH, you need at least 1100mb??? so 1gb is too small
start, again, sigh

finished clean install

something about guest additions
wide screen, blah blah blah

install guest additions and auto resize works
next to instal vpn and remote desktop is mine

virtual box - getting that old pc to run in a virtual box on your new machine

step 1
create a VDI of your old machine's boot disk
vmware has a free software thingy
get it use it
http://www.vmware.com/products/converter/

well, tried this with the drive on the NEW machine
so that was fail
moving drive back to the OLD machine and trying it there

oooo and will do the mergeide step too I think

step 1 again
ran mergeide (who knows, makes changes to registry to make export better)
ran vmware thingy on machine while it was running
exported the C drive just fine
copied the file to NEW windows 7 x64 where I will be running vbox

step 2
well, importing the vmdk into vbox was epic fail
thinking it is time to use a diff tool to make vdi
sigh

ooo and old favorite is back
winimage
I think I have been looking for this
no really
you shut up
no you

try # 9001
cygwin as administrator (important bit here)
mount //./E: /dev/old
dd if=/dev/old of=/cygdrive/c/oldpc.dd

so in theory I am making an image of the old C drive ....
we shall see if the next step works

step 10
convertfromraw oldpc.dd oldpc.vdi
admin problem as usual
running in cygwin window ...
working

this ran without error

step B

image is read only
jesus wept
really?
I did a chmod 777 so it SHOULD be ok ....
blargh

at this point, I give up

drivers, because I can

starting with video
thinks it is uptodate
guess it is possible the windows image they installed had everything installed already?
sweet if tru

installing cygwin
cause I NEED my unix window sometimes
mostly so I can mess with massive_files.sh
cause I dont believe anything that MS tells me about its file system
(you try copying 35TB, 1.5 million files and let me know what happens)

turned file index off, screw you, dont need no stinking index

flashdrive copy of massive_files.sh
cause I am too stupid to think of different method?
no wait
gmail to the rescue

16:49
my desire to shun unix idiots is now 100%
I spent over an hour trying to figure out a cygwin issue.
turns out they decided to remove a feature (dos text versus unix text)
the solution when you search on google?
we dont care fix your files

blarghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

in the REAL WORLD people use windows and when we use cygwin, a tool made for WINDOWS we use cygwin on WINDOWS FILES.
end of rant
visit me in jail

16:50
copying wow
SSD to SSD
22gb usb connector, gonna take 12 mins
clearly will need to do something other than watch

turning the damn thing on

14:53
so it is out the box, plugged in, cabled, and what not
first test is simple, in case I have to unplug everything and toss from window

power, keyboard, mouse, monitro network.
sadness
turned it one
VERY quiet
nothing on the monitor
SADNESS
chirping from the floppy, thinks it is booting
no monitor

FRAKING IDIOT
the cable isnt attached to the monitor
YAY for stupid people
I am NOT an RTARD.

oh look windows is up
so I have NO idea how long the boot took.
sigh

BLARGH
I have to type in my windows OS code now?
lawl

answered qtupid questions
windows started, turned it all off.
ok
once I figure out how to turn it back on, interesting problem, if you can NOT hear that your computer is on, how do you KNOW that it is booting.
60 seconds
from the time I pressed go, till the time windows was open.
YAY
crazy fast boot

now to screw everything up
keyboard works, mouse works, monitor works
internet works, yay google

CREATE RESTORE POINT NOW
this is it
I can always come back to this restore point and start all over again.
in theory

so it works minimally
I need to update all the drivers for windows
need to copy wow, cause that is the WHOLE point of this
need to test test test

and doing that will break everything I am sure
lawl