Wife tantrums as windows 8 fails

[Binky]

Windows 8 has nothing to do with this failure.

 

[tenpole]

Windows 8 has nothing to do with this failure.

Yes I will admit that. I was hoping to flame windows 8 again as a software that is hard to use. Initially i blamed Windows 8 for error.

 

[Raduque]

RAM does just fail like that. It's not a common thing, but if you get system freezes and random BSOD numbers, there's a reasonably good chance that it's caused by bad RAM.

Yep totally this. Stick of ram went bad in my HTPC (I should really move from 4x512 SODIMMs) and caused a no-post/bad memory beep. I pulled a single stick and it's running fine now on 1.5gb ram.

 

[Mem]

Yes I will admit that. I was hoping to flame windows 8 again as a software that is hard to use. Initially i blamed Windows 8 for error.

OS gets blame for everything,fact is all modern operating systems are damn easy to use ,not like the very old days a few decades ago, with respect to members here some users still need to be spoon fed which says a lot about them in general(not pointing fingers).


I wonder if some people realize this is the 21st century not cave men times.
Fact is everything has become easier IMHO compared to the old days,example being get them setting jumper switches on hardware ,rearranging IRQs,rearranging memory like in the old days just to run a game,remember all those text commands they would be stumped,now it's virtually plug and play with PC OS.

 

[Skaendo]

Fact is everything has become easier IMHO compared to the old days,example being get them setting jumper switches on hardware ,rearranging IRQs,rearranging memory like in the old days just to run a game,remember all those text commands they would be stumped,now it's virtually plug and play with PC OS.

I actually preferred the times when peripherals were more hardware driven. It was less drivers to deal with, and less taxing on motherboard resources, which in turn kept your PC running better, faster and saved those resources for actual computing.

 

[tenpole]

OS gets blame for everything,fact is all modern operating systems are damn easy to use ,not like the very old days a few decades ago, with respect to members here some users still need to be spoon fed which says a lot about them in general(not pointing fingers).

This is my wifes computer not mine so I am not familiar with it. It is different from the other windows systems

 

[Mem]

This is my wifes computer not mine so I am not familiar with it. It is different from the other windows systems

A little not much,especially with Start menu mod,try DOS 6.22 that's what I started with in at the deep end.

Anyway at least you got it all sorted.

 

[ControlD]

I actually preferred the times when peripherals were more hardware driven. It was less drivers to deal with, and less taxing on motherboard resources, which in turn kept your PC running better, faster and saved those resources for actual computing.

When was that, the 1950's? Hardware has always had associated drivers that went with it as far back as I can remember. My biggest challenge way back in 1994 was trying to find a working driver for a Diamond Stealth 32 VLB video card that wouldn't result in display errors with the Linux X windows server. I actually had to pay for a third party driver. Imagine that in this day! Paying for drivers.

I prefer the way things work today. I don't have to manually reserve and assign IRQs or DMA channels. I don't have to manually configure obscure driver initialization files. Once the driver is installed, plug and play takes care of the rest.

**Edit **

Maybe we are talking about chipset drivers, and those have become quite a bit more complex over the years.

 

[schmuckley]

The wife was using profanities with the occasionsal feigned swipe at the case. Memtest produced errors as soon as it ran for each and every test. The Ram is a branded crucial two sticks at 4 gb each. I think it was ballistix
Later I will be able to check up on it so I think that as Rampant Android suggested we have a hardware failure.
I do think it odd that the RAM can have failed so cataclysmically with no apparent reason.

One thing I will mention though is when wife removed the windows 8 disc from the drive tray she commented that it was unusualy hot. The heat seemed to come from my 300 gb back up drive which was why I removed it thinking this may be the problem.

If they're single-sided Crucial 4gb..It's probably RAM fail.
I've had 3 fail.

 

[Spungo]

My suggestion therefore is just to buy the regular speed RAM appropriate for your CPU. It's cheaper and more reliable.

I always end up underclocking my memory when overclocking the CPU. It seems like even a 0.000001% increase in memory speed is unstable. Maybe I just buy garbage memory.

I always thought it was weird that you can buy a CPU that runs at least 20% slower than it's capable of, but RAM is always clocked as high as the hardware will allow and is always on the brink of failure.

 

[tenpole]

The RAM is Corsair not crucial. I did have crucial RAM fail on me way back so I have avoided it maybe unfairly now the corsair stick failed. With my wifes computer I am not allowed to touch it because she claims and alleges my tweaking causes problems.

I also started on DOS. OS are much better and in all fainess I never hear a critical stop sound blaring out of my speakers. I used to use the screech from the ball thing from the show The Prisoner for the critical stop and it used to frighten the wife and make her jump which I thought was quite funny.

I was not permitted to do any overclocking so I did not have a i5 k cpu and just used a h87 board.

 

[Gunbuster]

This is clearly the fault of Windows 8, they should have designed it to operate with faulty hardware.

 

[RampantAndroid]

The RAM is Corsair not crucial. I did have crucial RAM fail on me way back so I have avoided it maybe unfairly now the corsair stick failed. With my wifes computer I am not allowed to touch it because she claims and alleges my tweaking causes problems.

I also started on DOS. OS are much better and in all fainess I never hear a critical stop sound blaring out of my speakers. I used to use the screech from the ball thing from the show The Prisoner for the critical stop and it used to frighten the wife and make her jump which I thought was quite funny.

I was not permitted to do any overclocking so I did not have a i5 k cpu and just used a h87 board.

I think crucial made corsair's memory. Corsair never made their own. Virtually everyone sources memory from Hynix or Samsung these days too.