Intel Talks Hourglass Syndrome ''Computer Rage''

[ArgleBargle]

Nowadays I only get frustrated with my laptop that runs Vista, and curse Vista itself. I have a Windows 7 box with a number of external hard drives; I've tried absolutely everything short of uninstalling Vista to get the laptop to network with the external drives. A couple will work, most will not. Despite having the share settings *exactly* the same, Vista just balks. Vista is the drizzling shits when it comes to networking, it freezes randomly (hourglass syndrome), and I feel M$ has pulled a fast one and ripped off its customers by releasing it.

 

[apache_lives]

[citation][nom]Arglebargle[/nom]Nowadays I only get frustrated with my laptop that runs Vista, and curse Vista itself. I have a Windows 7 box with a number of external hard drives; I've tried absolutely everything short of uninstalling Vista to get the laptop to network with the external drives. A couple will work, most will not. Despite having the share settings *exactly* the same, Vista just balks. Vista is the drizzling shits when it comes to networking, it freezes randomly (hourglass syndrome), and I feel M$ has pulled a fast one and ripped off its customers by releasing it.[/citation]

Vista and 7 are the same dude

 

[Guest]

I think we fail to mention that human error and incorrect expectations are to blame for much of computer issues.
As someone who has repaired computers. Many slowness issues can be attributed to user miss use. They get viruses, add too many startup programs, fail to do proper maintenance and so on. Its like blaming a flat tire because you forgot to fix it or put air in it. I also blame PC manufactures who put way too many so called "value added" software and helpers into their computers which only adds to their slowness.

 

[apache_lives]

[citation][nom]jescott418[/nom]I think we fail to mention that human error and incorrect expectations are to blame for much of computer issues.As someone who has repaired computers. Many slowness issues can be attributed to user miss use. They get viruses, add too many startup programs, fail to do proper maintenance and so on. Its like blaming a flat tire because you forgot to fix it or put air in it. I also blame PC manufactures who put way too many so called "value added" software and helpers into their computers which only adds to their slowness.[/citation]

+1 that and companies like Acer and Compaq selling units with stupid ammounts of ram - 512mb + Vista etc in the day

 

[Lutfij]

I remember having the last vid on my P3 550MHz IBM rig ah a good site for nostalgia...and speaking of which i did have this syndrome on the P3 until i got my 2.8GHz P4 😛 i'd kick it much like everyone else on Tom's but the HDD was also to blame and an irregularity with ram timings. Now I've learn't alot and lag is something i sink into with a cup of coffee X-D

 

[davewolfgang]

The funny (sad) part is the two things he hits, kicks and breaks - the keyboard and monitor - aren't the cause of the problem. 😛

I don't think I've ever hit my machine for not working, but I have whacked an old CRT monitor to fix something lose inside to fix the wavy screen. Worked for about 4 months until it really finally broke.

 

[christop]

It think the last vid was P2 rage..

 

[awood28211]

OMG. My first job in a computer store...in 1992. I'll never forget this one customer... to remain anonymous here. But he forever came into the store with a broken computer for repair... only the repairs were NEVER normal. They were entirely physical issues. Keyboards smashed, broken monitors and even once he came in with his computer case so smashed up I'd swear he'd thrown it off a building into heavy traffic... and yet he ALWAYS claimed the damage came from some benign source. His cat jumped on his keyboard.. on in the case of the crushed case... "my lamp fell off my desk and landed on the tower"... In a year I believe he went through about $15,000 in physical repairs... This of course is when a 386 was 5 times as expensive as today's quad core beasties.

...once, I remember, he had completely disassembled his computer. Took everything out and then didn't know how to reassemble it. Literally, hard drives had no screws holding them in... the SCSI cable for his 1x!! CD rom drive was plugged directly into his MFM hard drive with the MFM cable which was about a gagillion pins short of covering all the scsi pins.. SIPPS were big in RAM then and he had one in correctly and one in backwards, both bent over touching other components (for those who don't know.. sipps were like SIMMS but they had little wires about 1/4" long that stuck into little holes in the ram "slot" instead of a "card" connector and they just kind of stuck straight up resting on the pins). Nothing had a power cable to it. His mother board power cable was forced on in reverse... and I'll never forget that he couldn't get the video card into a slot so he ripped the bracket right off it...along with a chunk of the card.. it was hilarious...

His excuse on that was.... "I don't know, I just turned it on this morning and it the power came on but nothing works..."

The only components we salvaged were the cd, hard drive and a Ad-Lib sound card...

That guy was crazy.

 

[awood28211]

Oh and another memory... While at a friends house.. we were putting a western digital 40 MB hard drive into his 286 machine one night... He was trying to low-level format it...because u had to back in the day... and it had this distinct clicking sound they made when the heads were "locked". He spent hours trying to "unlock" them using the WD MFM controller bios. G=C800:5 FTW! Nothing worked. He got ticked and smacked the face of the hard drive with a screw driver... hit it so hard the noise made me jump from across the room.. WHACK! The drive immediately skirted it's way into the also distinct sound of the heads initializing and suddenly worked. I don't recall the drive ever failing after that. He only quit using it a few years later when he replaced it altogether... even after keeping it formatted with an RLL controller to get that 50% more space out of it.

Those were the days.

 

[DawnTreader777]

who cares about what processor i use, give me an SSD for my boot drive any day. any OS works faster with an SSD.

 

[dsolom3]

"The little hourglass (or the spinning rainbow wheel)"

WHAT??? Never seen either one on my computer!

 

[unknown_13]

Yes i had one, with my old Athlon 3200+ and a 6600GT.... while playing Crysis xD

 

[wikiwikiwhat]

hourglass syndrome? just pull out that cool smartphone and play angrybirds at work. Like I do.

 

[g00ey]

THere is one way to get rid of this syndrome; throw out windows and use something Unix/Linux based. There will be no need to get a dearer CPU or SSD.