Persistant pc problems

ben500

ben500

ben500

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I'm having a lot of problems, for example this year alone I seem to have killed three pc's, my requirements are a little unusual and very demanding but I don't understand why I'm losing pc's at the rate I am.
The latest to fail on me iss an acer aspire, graphics went a bit iffy and I did hard shutdown and it won't boot back up, I get a red symbol flashing on monitor which is the outline of a square with a triangle segment missing from right hand side, the triangle is there but displaced to the right of the square, the symbol flashes red and is outline only infill is black the same as the rest of the screen, I have tried switching graphics card but no change.

I run approximately 30-50 flash games at once and was wondering if this is maybe damaging the systems.

I'd appreciate if anyone could offer any help.

I generally have around 30+ browser windows open across seven or eight different browser applications, flock,safari,firefox,kmeleon,chrome,opera, seamonkey and i/e. I get a lot of problems with browsers failing and shutting down also, and recently the amount of windows I am able to open before losing browsers is decreasing to an unacceptable level for me.
The latest pc to pack up was being used as a secondary and would have had less strain on it than my main pc, browser problems occur across both pc's though, window mists up and I get not responding message followed by shutdown of browser, I am unable to shut down the stalled window on it's own and the whole browser set has to be shut down.
 
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Seriously, just what? :confused:

Why the hell would you want to play 30-50 flash games at the same time, let alone across 30 different browsers? :confused:

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I generally run two pc's in tandem so the work is reduced by at least 50% on one pc, my main pc is an acer aspire x3200 not exactly a tiddler
 
ben500 said:
I generally run two pc's in tandem so the work is reduced by at least 50% on one pc, my main pc is an acer aspire x3200 not exactly a tiddler
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sorry, but that isn't a top end pc (AMD Phenom X3 8400 (2.1 GHz)...you're overworking your pc...even with two of them!
 
I wasn't claiming it was top end but I'd suggest it should be capable of handling 50% of the decribed capacity. In any event that pc is fine or at the moment it is anyway, does anybody have any idea what the symbol displayed on the monitor represents by any chance?
 
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But why? I assume for testing puposes?
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No I actually play the games, I know it sounds bizarre but I do have good reason, if the current system is not up to it then I have no problem upgrading if someone would like to suggest what kind of system specifications I would need to sustain such performance requirements
 
so why cant you have 1 open at a time? I cant help but wonder how old you are playing that many flash games. The mind boggles. I like that word lol.

As for system its self, well to be honest that is not a hard spec. All you need is lots of ram really, i cant imagin they really affect any of the c2d's or even quads and obviously graphics is a null point is they are 2d.

As for your pc's dieing, well if you feel compelled to have 30-50 flash games open at once, one might think it is likely you have some other strange habbit which is infact killing your pc's.
 
ben500 said:
No I actually play the games, I know it sounds bizarre but I do have good reason,
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It sounds utterly bizzare. What is this 'good reason' to be simultaneously playing 50 flash games across 30-50 tabs/browser windows/different browsers?
 
I need them all open at same time as games are simultaneuous, the sites all share same server, I am a member of a number of sites of same network and best advantage can be gained by logging in as individual on each account. Essentially the more id's I have logged in at same time the more money I can make. I currently have 4g ram, with 1g graphics, running on a phenom x4
 
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Why the hell would you want to play 30-50 flash games at the same time, let alone across 30 different browsers?
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There was a good article in IEEE Spectrum at least one year ago about this. Very interesting article that even described how the user had generated income doing so. Forgot the article name.
 
ben500 said:
I'm having a lot of problems, for example this year alone I seem to have killed three pc's, my requirements are a little unusual and very demanding but I don't understand why I'm losing pc's at the rate I am.
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Once the processor is doing something, 'stress' does not increase. Either it is running fully stressed on the current threads. Or it is idle.

Few can answer your question without details and numbers. Currently nobody even knows if your are confusing a software bottleneck with a hardware failure. Of course, if your hardware comes from a better manufacturer, then he has provided comprehensive hardware diagnostics for free. Just one example of how to start a solution by breaking the problem down into parts (in this case, draw a line between hardware and software), and then solving for each part.

So, what did the autopsy define as damaged? Without even that little detail, then every reply will only be wild speculation - not useful.
 
I'll be happy to answer any questions you put forward regarding usage and even just to satisfy your curiosity within reason, I am at a loss as to what info you would require, you may well be hitting the nail on the head with software bottleneck can you elaborate on how I would identify this as the cause please?

With respect to browser crashes, is it possible that this is some kind of server rejection as a result of mulitple hits from the same isp perhaps?
 
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westom said:
There was a good article in IEEE Spectrum at least one year ago about this. Very interesting article that even described how the user had generated income doing so. Forgot the article name.
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Absolutely Westom, my needs are almost identical to those described in the article if it's the same one I am aware of I don't have a link I'm afraid. But yes I require upwards of 40 seperate windows, and indeed would like to expand this to as much as 75 later, all windows would be running flash programs and may be running on same servers in many cases. I realise I could be suffering from something as simple as browser conflict/compatibility with relation to browser crashes and obviously recognise this as something seperate to the dying pc problem.
 
Software isn't killing your computers, however odd your use of it may be. Its more likely that your mains ac is rubbish I think. Options are moving to another socket, rewiring current socket, or ideally using a power conditioner of some sort. Try to find one more advanced than the 10 quid surge protectors which have three capacitors soldered in place.

Whats your processor load/free ram like while doing this? I can well believe that the brower doesn't like it, but Id expect the only hardware limit to be ram
 
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