Technology Hates Me

[Anonymous]

Okay that's it T, we're taking your computer away from you.  You obviously can't be trusted.  We'll leave you with a Speak 'n Spell or an Etch-a-sketch.  You choose.

[Anonymous]

/target Tbone
/orangutan
/slap

[Ash]

My Impression of Tbone:



"But I'm just a Caveman, your world frightens and confuses me! Sometimes the honking horns of your traffic make me want to get out of my BMW.. and run off into the hills, or wherever.. Sometimes when I get a message on my fax machine, I wonder: Did little demons get inside and type it?"

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[Ketamininja]

Yeah, the chip probably wasn't formatted to a type that Windows could replicate (copyright of the "file system" being the first block I would think). There is probably a program available that can format it correctly, but you would have to have phone model nums or something at the ready when searching.

How did it wipe? RAM can show you how vulnerable data is. You get ECC RAM in servers (error checking and control or something). This basically stops normal errors from occurring. For example, it is said that radiation from the SUN will at least change a 0 to a 1 or vice-versa in your [regular] RAM about once a month. Could cause a BSOD if it changes a critical byte.

A bit extreme for the loss of your data perhaps, but an example that it can be flakey, even if it's good.

[Tbone]

It would be my luck that some weird radaition fries my critical 0.

I tried formatting the MMC on both my phone and on my computer. When I bought it from the store, I just had to put it in my phone and boot it up - wasn't complicated at all. I didn't buy it through my phone vendor or anything. I guess I just need to continue doing research. I'm pretty sure my data is gone, as I'm formatted a dozen times now.

Oh, and as for my bluetooth dongle, it was a flimsy piece of iogear shit. Plugged right into USB but stuck out of my computer like an awkward appendage. On my old computer, I ran into it and kinda bent it a little, so in order to get it to stay connected, I had to kinda jiggle it just right. It finally just fell apart from all the pushing and pulling to find its sweet spot where it would connect. More money down the drain...

[Ketamininja]

Yeah, the chip would have been formatted correctly when you bought.
A bit like NTFS/FAT32/FAT/HPFS... I would put money on a special FS on the chip, but never been interested in phones at the mo, so don't have much knowledge!

[Tbone]

Well, I made sure I formatted it in FAT, not FAT32. Thing is, the chip is accessible in the phone (it will save files to it and I can browse it), but as before I was able to read media right off the chip, now it treats everything as unreadable.

[Anonymous]

so what your saying is you need a new pic of me for your phone

[Tbone]

Oh no, I saved that to my computer LONG ago. Er...I mean...yes, that's exactly what I'm saying.

[Tbone]

To update...

Bluescreen Error: After much googling, I came across a thread of mass amounts of people having Memory Parity errors from recent Dell laptops. Many of them had the exact same video card as me, and it was discovered that some people could correct the problem by switching out Dell's Nvidia driver for the driver on the Nvidia site. I did this and have not had a bluescreen since! Let's hope I didn't jinx it.

MMC: I never resolved this issue. I basically had to buy a new one and say goodbye to my old pics. It was just dead.

Bluetooth Dongle: Bought a bluetooth notebook card thingy so no more awkward USB sticky-outy-thingy.


Only Issues Remaining: I still get disconnected from Teamspeak about once every hour or two. Every now and then my wireless card will disable itself and I'll have to restart to re-enable it. This happens on different networks, so it's definitely me, not the router/etc.

[Anonymous]

Network card driver issue?  Or maybe power to the card... sounds very odd.  I've never seen a network card disable itself at random.  Is it an Intel card?  Are you using their own software?

[Tbone]

Intl PROSet Wireless. Yeah, default came with comp.

[Lithium]

My Dell developed the Intel Core Duo High Pitched Noise

http://forum.rightmark.org/topic.cgi?id=6:852

Fucking never bought intel for years and I broke my own rule.

At least the right mark program silences it a little bit but I can still hear if I listen for it.
(It has something to do with a problem in the core duo idling something...)

[Ash]

Hey T, try removing the wireless software that dell provided to manage you wifi and let windows do (no supurflous software)  also try disabling your LAN connection (sometimes there can be interference)

[Tbone]

Interesting. I have core duo and I don't have that problem. Core Duo does seem to be the common thread among the bluescreens.