I’ve been typing in my other blogs this night, and in my WoW blog I started thinking “What if I just said “Fuck you!” to my lock up issue, and just played my games? Would it cause my issue to get even worse?”
\nSo I asked gop the 1 million dollar question, and we talked it over, with him still not knowing what caused it. I didn’t either.
\nTo be honest, there just doesn’t seem to be a link between when it started to fuck up in Wurm and Fallout 3, to now of it locking up in all games. Could I say “Fallout 3 broke my video card”? Yet, replacing the card with my 9500GT made the issue worse?<\/p>\n
I began to think why the damn thing couldn’t be tracked down by hardware tests, but there was no link there. The diagnostic scan showed nothing wrong with my hardware. So I dug deeper into the past, and came across when I started having issues on this computer.<\/p>\n
A long time ago, when I had my old hardware, I accidentally installed old drivers over new ones, and since then I’ve been getting graphic issues. Basically, I’ll be playing a game like WoW, and suddenly it caused my screen to tear, doing stupid shit until I did my temp fix by minimizing and maximizing.<\/p>\n
Completely uninstalling and reinstalling the new drivers didn’t fix it. Yet, the hardware upgrade did.
\nBut then, I started to remember how it didn’t fuck up for quite sometime… until I was playing Wurm when I had my 9400GT, and noticed the issues I was having, similar to what I was having before I got my hardware upgrade.
\nI’ve been reading in my old Wurm logs, of how I said that it stopped doing it after I got the upgrade.<\/p>\n
Then it hit me. It’s my HARD DRIVE causing it!!! Somehow the issue is hidden somewhere on my C drive, undetectable by hardware scans. Somehow when I got my hardware upgrade, the graphic glitch mutated into what is now known as my lock up issue. It makes perfect sense! (of course that’s what I said about my PSU and it only worked for just under two weeks)<\/p>\n
BOTH things where fucking around with my video card, making me think my card was faulty. When all alone it was a hidden file that can’t be wiped off my C drive. This file could be the 658 reallocated sector thingy, according to my S.M.A.R.T. info.
\nAnd also, if I remember right, both things affected only when I was in a game.
\nA drive is never fully reformatted. It can still contain data like personal info, credit cards, passwords.<\/p>\n
Well, once July gets here, I’ll have it replaced, along with a new PSU, and a Video Card.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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