Post your computer experiences here.

[jrisreal]

I got the idea from DOA and from my own current experience. I just got through reinstalling Windows because it was being screwy. No apps would load unless I right click and hit 'Run as Admin' ... alot of the apps were corrupt or somehow deleted themselves. Chkdsk was one of those apps that deleted themselves, so I couldn't check/repair my HDD with it. Well so far everything seems to be working. Going to be a big pain to reinstall everything.

Post your stories about how your computer was giving you trouble and how you fixed it, if you did.

sorry if wrong section

[Eat Bass]

all my windows computers either slowed to a crawl or got the blue screen of death. i fixed it by getting a mac.

flame away

[jrisreal]

linux > mac

[ehbes]

all my windows computers either slowed to a crawl or got the blue screen of death. i fixed it by getting a mac.

Same here

[gen_]

I got the idea from DOA and from my own current experience. I just got through reinstalling Windows because it was being screwy. No apps would load unless I right click and hit 'Run as Admin' ... alot of the apps were corrupt or somehow deleted themselves. Chkdsk was one of those apps that deleted themselves, so I couldn't check/repair my HDD with it. Well so far everything seems to be working. Going to be a big pain to reinstall everything.

Post your stories about how your computer was giving you trouble and how you fixed it, if you did.

sorry if wrong section

I honestly don't know why so many people claim to have issues with their PC's like this. Unless you have liabilities (kids, maybe even you) running around your house you really should have a problem. At all.

3 steps to PC nirvana. I'll even do a detailed tutorial if you want.

• 1. Stop using IE. Active X controls and other IE specific plug ins have almost as many viruses developed for them as the rest of Windows combined. Download Firefox, or even better, Opera or Chrome. The less people using what you use the safer you are. Firefox worms will come, don't say I didn't warn you.
  
  2. Run 64bit, and without without an taskbar antivirus.
  Most viruses in existence rely on device drivers, or virtual device drivers. The arrival of 64bit windows broke compatibility with lots of pre windows 98 stuff, but also broke compatibility with lots of viruses because old drivers no longer loaded. For virus cleanup Use Malwarebytes. Your PC will be faster without your AV constantly checking everything.

3. Image your HDD.
Reinstalling any OS is a pain. Reinstalling the apps is worse. I've actually had to reinstall more for my Mac than my PC but it switched me on to doing this. Once that new OS and the apps are installed, buy a small portable hard drive and image the drive over. This creates a ISO containing your hard drive and all its apps which you can 'burn' over the current install whenever you want to.

For windows look here http://lifehacker.com/326086/hot-image- ... eimage-xml

For Mac restart from your install disk, selct Disk Utility from the menu, click on your System HDD and click the make image button on the top bar! (To restore go to the third tab and browse to where you saved your file.)

DISCLAIMER: I have both and bear no bias. I produce on my Mac (Logic) and do everything else on my faster and cheaper PC.

[jrisreal]

I got the idea from DOA and from my own current experience. I just got through reinstalling Windows because it was being screwy. No apps would load unless I right click and hit 'Run as Admin' ... alot of the apps were corrupt or somehow deleted themselves. Chkdsk was one of those apps that deleted themselves, so I couldn't check/repair my HDD with it. Well so far everything seems to be working. Going to be a big pain to reinstall everything.

Post your stories about how your computer was giving you trouble and how you fixed it, if you did.

sorry if wrong section

I honestly don't know why so many people claim to have issues with their PC's like this. Unless you have liabilities (kids, maybe even you) running around your house you really should have a problem. At all.

3 steps to PC nirvana. I'll even do a detailed tutorial if you want.

• 1. Stop using IE. Active X controls and other IE specific plug ins have almost as many viruses developed for them as the rest of Windows combined. Download Firefox, or even better, Opera or Chrome. The less people using what you use the safer you are. Firefox worms will come, don't say I didn't warn you.
  
  2. Run 64bit, and without without an taskbar antivirus.
  Most viruses in existence rely on device drivers, or virtual device drivers. The arrival of 64bit windows broke compatibility with lots of pre windows 98 stuff, but also broke compatibility with lots of viruses because old drivers no longer loaded. For virus cleanup Use Malwarebytes. Your PC will be faster without your AV constantly checking everything.

3. Image your HDD.
Reinstalling any OS is a pain. Reinstalling the apps is worse. I've actually had to reinstall more for my Mac than my PC but it switched me on to doing this. Once that new OS and the apps are installed, buy a small portable hard drive and image the drive over. This creates a ISO containing your hard drive and all its apps which you can 'burn' over the current install whenever you want to.

For windows look here http://lifehacker.com/326086/hot-image- ... eimage-xml

For Mac restart from your install disk, selct Disk Utility from the menu, click on your System HDD and click the make image button on the top bar! (To restore go to the third tab and browse to where you saved your file.)

DISCLAIMER: I have both and bear no bias. I produce on my Mac (Logic) and do everything else on my faster and cheaper PC.

what happened to my laptop isn't a result of worms or viruses. when I was installing linux, my laptop flipped out and corrupted the windows drive and these problems started happening. its weird though, because I have dual-booted my old desktop and my old laptop with linux and windows before and these problems did not happen. Oh and I did image my HDD but it restore properly. I have all my files and whatnot backed up, though, so I didn't lose them and, for that, I am grateful. And yes, I am running 64-bit on both linux and windows.

[gen_]

Sheet, well then I guess you simply lucked out then. My bad, but I'm sure that post will be useful to someone so maybe I should copypasta it up for tutorial. Did you try SFC?

[alexvont12]

My new Dell laptop just took a shit. Completely lost the hard drive and had to take the WHOLE thing apart to try to re-seat it. Put it all back together again and its still broken... piece of shit.
Also, I checked my warranty status online and it didn't find one, even though it came with a 1-year limited.... I still have to call and get it all worked out

[jrisreal]

Sheet, well then I guess you simply lucked out then. My bad, but I'm sure that post will be useful to someone so maybe I should copypasta it up for tutorial. Did you try SFC?

did not, but meh, what's done is done. Already halfway done reinstalling apps. Enough about me, though.

[hutyluty]

my computer wouldnt work when i came home from uni so i swapped everything around inside it with another one until it turned out it was the processor which had blown up and im not shelling out 200 quid on a new one

result = producing on my mums computer for a month

[Samuel_L_Damnson]

my computer wouldnt work when i came home from uni so i swapped everything around inside it with another one until it turned out it was the processor which had blown up and im not shelling out 200 quid on a new one

result = producing on my mums computer for a month

Where do you get your components? www.ebuyer.com is always worth a look for mysteriously cheap stuff. my mate built his entire pc from ebuyer stuff

[hutyluty]

my computer wouldnt work when i came home from uni so i swapped everything around inside it with another one until it turned out it was the processor which had blown up and im not shelling out 200 quid on a new one

result = producing on my mums computer for a month

Where do you get your components? http://www.ebuyer.com is always worth a look for mysteriously cheap stuff. my mate built his entire pc from ebuyer stuff

cheers, will have a look at that, its going to have to be second hand unless i want to upgrade the memory and everything thoguh, cos the models not in production anymore

[Depone]

linux > mac

You have to be shitting me, for music production its a Mac & PC game my friend. Dont try getting all im uber linux on us, their audio support blows and you know it. Just saying, it feels like people these days need to drop a "I'm using linux, and its better than you" bomb recently.

[Divane]

gen_ is totally right.

I think that unless you really are a new to computers and the internet you should be able to maintain a stable windows computer .

[blinx]

JR, i would keep an eye on your harddrive, it sounds like it is beggining to fail, especially if thinks like chkdsk are just "magically" dissappearing thats a symptoms of harddrive failure. You can sometimes "fix" it for a little bit by reinstalling but eventually youll starting reading/writing to corrupted/failed segments of the harddrive and it will appear again. or worse just BSOD and never boot again.

[VirtualMark]

About the Mac vs PC vs Linux debate: We see so many of these threads with people saying their systems better in one way or another. The truth is that people were making good music in the 90s on far less powerful hardware than we have today. All thats really needed is enough power to run a few plugins, play a few samples and generate some waveforms.

The rest just comes down to workflow - slower computers may have to bounce more parts, different operating systems/daws/plugins etc have different ways of doing the same thing. I really don't think it matters what you use, as long as you learn to use it well.

[AJGR]

linux > mac

You have to be shitting me, for music production its a Mac & PC game my friend. Dont try getting all im uber linux on us, their audio support blows and you know it. Just saying, it feels like people these days need to drop a "I'm using linux, and its better than you" bomb recently.

i read interpreted what he said like this

monkey > human
wheat > bread
milk > cheese

you know evolution, you might start with linux but end up on mac.

[Eat Bass]

linux > mac

You have to be shitting me, for music production its a Mac & PC game my friend. Dont try getting all im uber linux on us, their audio support blows and you know it. Just saying, it feels like people these days need to drop a "I'm using linux, and its better than you" bomb recently.

i read interpreted what he said like this

monkey > human
wheat > bread
milk > cheese

you know evolution, you might start with linux but end up on mac.

i was thinking the same thing ^_^

linux is the base of mac but mac has gone above and beyond providing excellent audio support, user interface (simplicity), and even starting to get better for gaming. linux is the bare bones.

[Gurnumsbug]

My comp is just a pile o shit & has a hard time running anything nowadays :'(
2gb ram 2.20GHz 32-bit operating system!

[jrisreal]

JR, i would keep an eye on your harddrive, it sounds like it is beggining to fail, especially if thinks like chkdsk are just "magically" dissappearing thats a symptoms of harddrive failure. You can sometimes "fix" it for a little bit by reinstalling but eventually youll starting reading/writing to corrupted/failed segments of the harddrive and it will appear again. or worse just BSOD and never boot again.

possibly. I'll keep it backed up