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Ghost in the Machine. . .
by Coryphaeus - 9/22/04 9:48 AMPer my previous posts about freezing, I fixed it. I stared at the case, chanting obscenities, pointing my finger at it, and threatening adjustments with a three pound hammer.
It hasn't happend since. Have no idea why it quit freezing. I remember a phrase I heard many years ago, back in the 80s.
"Computers work some days better than others."
Hey Wayne install SP2 maybe
by Ray Harinec - 9/22/04 12:01 PM In reply to: Ghost in the Machine. . . by Coryphaeusit'll bring it back for you. LOL Or go back to Compaqs. Never thought that you would build your own after being so high on Compaq.
In all seriousness I hope that the problem is gone for good, and am happy for you.
Re: Ghost in the Machine. . .
by TONI H - 9/22/04 12:24 PM In reply to: Ghost in the Machine. . . by CoryphaeusI've found quite often that swearing at my tower in Italian works wonders...it appears to confuse the hell out of all of the devices that have been made overseas in different languages and they start playing nice with each other again.
I can't tell you how frustrating it was to go to EZCD6 Platinum, download the newest update for it IN ENGLISH, and wind up with the final windows after a burn that it was all in Spanish. Uninstalling, getting a new copy downloaded and installed did nothing to correct it........until I read the install log that gets put into an obscure little folder holding a couple of update files that don't get uninstalled automatically and every re-installation was reading the files in that folder and declaring that my version was already updated....in Spanish.
Troubleshooting that let me delete that folder before uninstalling again, and then when I reinstalled EZCD6, I didn't bother to install the update file....and won't. Programmers are getting a LITTLE too grabby with with my system lately.
TONI
Sometimes it's like your pet.
by R. Proffitt
- 9/22/04 12:30 PM
In reply to: Ghost in the Machine. . . by Coryphaeus
I have had numerous stories that just taking your PC for a ride to a repair shop fixes it. (Repair shop does nothing...)
This happens for a simple reason. The ride jostles the machine a little and connections that were not connecting now... connect.
Or it really is like your pet that wants to go for a walk or car ride.
Bob
Wayne, I even...
by FrankQTran - 9/22/04 12:39 PM In reply to: Ghost in the Machine. . . by Coryphaeusmix three "cursing languages" (English+Spanish+Vietnamese) together and I think it scared "a heck" out of one of my nephew's stubborn laptop. 
Re: Ghost in the Machine. . .
by jerrywh1 - 9/23/04 9:43 AM In reply to: Ghost in the Machine. . . by CoryphaeusCool....Sometimes "precussion" maintance is the answer
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by joybook - 9/23/04 11:57 PM In reply to: Ghost in the Machine. . . by CoryphaeusI am a healer and have done many healings on humans by depossession. Once, I was at a buddy's shop and he could not get his printer to print. He tried everything and he is a techie. I walked up to the computer and put my hands on it and commanded it be depossessed. It began to print immediately.
Prem Raja Baba
Re: Ghost in the Machine. . .
by Paul C - 9/24/04 2:45 AM In reply to: Ghost in the Machine. . . by CoryphaeusWayne,
SP2's Auto-Curse function woulda fixed that for ya, no sweat.
IMO, it wasn't the profane passwords - although they probably made you feel better. Most likely, it was that the PC sensed the hammer through the disturbance of its magnetic field and realized that you really were serious here...
Re: Ghost in the Machine. . .
by BarryKeith - 9/24/04 3:24 AM In reply to: Ghost in the Machine. . . by CoryphaeusThis method of repair is not a new idea, I used exactly the same method many years ago (1957) when working in the cinema as a projectionist. We had a very basic electronic contol system that controlled the projectors, lights, curtains, screen masking, playing records or tape and contolling the auditorium lighting. One day it would not change over from one projector to the other, so I got a large club hammer from the toolbox and threatened that I would destroy the control unit. Guess what! It worked perfectly afterward and never gave any more trouble.
Re: Ghost in the Machine. . .
by jzeyer - 9/24/04 4:23 AM In reply to: Ghost in the Machine. . . by CoryphaeusI worked the help desk for a major Cleveland corporation for a couple of years. I had one machine that would freeze when booting. However, when I would disconnect it and put it on the test bench, it would work fine. I would then put it back on the floor and it would work fine for a couple of months, then start freezing again. We used to joke around that it "just liked to go for walks every now and then".
Re: Ghost in the Machine. . .
by bugtest - 9/24/04 6:32 AM In reply to: Ghost in the Machine. . . by CoryphaeusI just keep a rolled up newspaper (no joke) and threaten to swat it till the print wears off. It work on my old one for a little over two years. Now I have a newer one that sits next to the old one. It goofed up once and I told it to "talk to the one that's been retired sitting next to you and find out what'll happen". Never had a problem until I put in SP2. But that's for another thread.
Re: Ghost in the Machine. . .
by Mark5019 - 9/24/04 1:42 PM In reply to: Re: Ghost in the Machine. . . by bugtestclean out the spyware and malware and see how good it uis
Re: Ghost in the Machine. . .
by lrogersa - 9/24/04 8:02 AM In reply to: Ghost in the Machine. . . by CoryphaeusI had an internal modem, back in the day, where I had to turn the tower on end to get the modem to work. Tech support laughed at me and told me no way, but empirically, that's what worked...
Re: Ghost in the Machine. . .
by zenking - 9/24/04 1:25 PM In reply to: Ghost in the Machine. . . by Coryphaeusthis might not help, but it might explain the unexplainable. I "believe" in a force guided by
our consciousness, similar to that seen in "Star Wars".
Just not as powerful. Try this link, it blew me
away. http://home.comcast.net/~neardeath/science/001_pages/05.htm
I've read some other stuff about affecting random generators on pc's. So who knows.
Maybe your intentions to have a working machine, actually made it work. Your intensity manifested itself to fix your computer. Whatever, maybe I'm just as wacked as everyone else.
later, gl with all the future ghosts
ed
Re: Ghost in the Machine. . .
by jkhemani - 9/24/04 3:28 PM In reply to: Ghost in the Machine. . . by CoryphaeusWith my old pc I had ages ago (Pentium-I 100Mhz 1.3GB-HDD 32MB-RAM Win98), I eventually started off using even heavy-resource-eating softwares like Photoshop and MSOffice 2000. When my PC would freeze up at wrong times (like not having saved the file yet), I wouldn't be able to figure anything what to do to unfreeze it... I used to literally put my hand on my PC like giving it hope to fight on and un-freeze. And it worked almost everytime.
If I didn't bother bout it, it would freeze up for good and needed a restart! People always said "Love cares...", but I didn't know it meant so literally!
Jay
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