Friggin Computer Bullsh*t
QuadyTheTurnip
Icrontian
All of a sudden, I hate my computer. It's a Comaq Presario V6000 laptop, running Windows 7 RC 32bit, with 2gigs of ram, and an AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-50 1.6 GHz processor.
And all of a sudden, it sucks.
It's been working great for the few months I've been running 7 RC, except for some bugs I figured Windows 7 would get patched to fix (It hasn't). Oh wait, and more bugs are cropping up the more I use it.
Take my Browser of choice, Google Chrome. It used to work great. But now, half the time it runs slow as hell. And not because of traffic issues. The same sites, at the same time, run perfectly fine on Firefox (a perfectly fine browser, but I much, MUCH prefer Chrome). It will hang on random sites for 10 seconds randomly, it'll have laggy youtube videos crop up randomly, sometimes it'll crash for no good reason. I updated Chrome, reinstalled it, even switched the Beta version...no dice. It's still bad.
Other software like iTunes have similar problems. When I first installed it, it liked to randomly freeze up my computer, where I couldn't do anything but move the mouse, my music would stop, and the hard drive would do...nothing at all. The first iTunes update after 7 RC came out fixed it...and now it's cropping up again, with more and more frequency.
uTorrent does this as well. Even other software will occasionally do so.
Every so often (sometimes randomly, other times when I let my computer go into standby and start using it again), it'll randomly bluescreen with something about Driver State Power issues (or something like that).
Sometimes, the harddrive will start running seemingly randomly, slowing down everything else to a crawl for no good reason. This only started recently.
I've had other dumb (admittedly, minor) problems as well. It seems like a new one pops up every time I start up my computer.
And finally, today, my wireless card died. This is presumably an unrelated issue as I had this issue a year ago, and it was a HP manufacturing defect (that other laptop models in this range have as well, due to overheating via bad BIOS fan management and many people, including myself not updating our BIOSes), and HP took my computer for a few weeks, "repaired it" (or so I thought) and sent it back to me with a working wireless card. But it just died again. And i wouldn't be surprised if i'm out of warranty too.
I know this last part is unrelated to the other issues, but it's something like the f***ing last straw for me. I'm pissed off!
And no, I don't have any other computers or any money to buy a new one.
F**k this stupid crap.
And all of a sudden, it sucks.
It's been working great for the few months I've been running 7 RC, except for some bugs I figured Windows 7 would get patched to fix (It hasn't). Oh wait, and more bugs are cropping up the more I use it.
Take my Browser of choice, Google Chrome. It used to work great. But now, half the time it runs slow as hell. And not because of traffic issues. The same sites, at the same time, run perfectly fine on Firefox (a perfectly fine browser, but I much, MUCH prefer Chrome). It will hang on random sites for 10 seconds randomly, it'll have laggy youtube videos crop up randomly, sometimes it'll crash for no good reason. I updated Chrome, reinstalled it, even switched the Beta version...no dice. It's still bad.
Other software like iTunes have similar problems. When I first installed it, it liked to randomly freeze up my computer, where I couldn't do anything but move the mouse, my music would stop, and the hard drive would do...nothing at all. The first iTunes update after 7 RC came out fixed it...and now it's cropping up again, with more and more frequency.
uTorrent does this as well. Even other software will occasionally do so.
Every so often (sometimes randomly, other times when I let my computer go into standby and start using it again), it'll randomly bluescreen with something about Driver State Power issues (or something like that).
Sometimes, the harddrive will start running seemingly randomly, slowing down everything else to a crawl for no good reason. This only started recently.
I've had other dumb (admittedly, minor) problems as well. It seems like a new one pops up every time I start up my computer.
And finally, today, my wireless card died. This is presumably an unrelated issue as I had this issue a year ago, and it was a HP manufacturing defect (that other laptop models in this range have as well, due to overheating via bad BIOS fan management and many people, including myself not updating our BIOSes), and HP took my computer for a few weeks, "repaired it" (or so I thought) and sent it back to me with a working wireless card. But it just died again. And i wouldn't be surprised if i'm out of warranty too.
I know this last part is unrelated to the other issues, but it's something like the f***ing last straw for me. I'm pissed off!
And no, I don't have any other computers or any money to buy a new one.
F**k this stupid crap.
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Its an OEM laptop, didn't it come with a retail OS of some kind?
EDIT: The question is, would it be worth it? Not so much the money issue ($30 isn't bad, and I'd have to buy it at some point in the next half-year anyways), but time-wise. It's the middle of the week during the school year, and I have compositions to make. If it's not going to fix my problems then it's not worth spending the time on it this week. But if it will...then it probably will be worth the time.
Has anyone else done this? Has it fixed bugs? Or is it just stupid small bugs that it fixes?
Home Premium 32 bit, Home Premium 64 bit, Professional 32 bit, and Professional 64 bit.
All cost the same.
Looking at this, it looks like Professional is a better choice than Home Premium...but is that true? i.e., are there any reasons to choose Home Premium over Professional? (I am running the Ultimate version in RC right now, so yeah.)
And, does anyone have any advice for 32bit/64bit choices?
EDIT: decided to ask the last question here