#Computer Problems

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[artist-ellen]

My computer (ancient) isn’t charging. I’m doing my best not to panic (don’t panic, don’t panic, don’t panic), but talk about hitting somebody when they’re down.

[nocturnal-nexu]

It's all gone guys. My entire folder of Sketchbook files just poof! Gone. I think I somehow accidentally deleted it with some other old files. Like the whole folder. Permanently. Like its not in the recycle bin anymore.

Needless to say I am distraught. I called in sick to work and just taking a day.

Luckily some of my animatics I'm working on were in a different folder but everything else is gone. Including a really cool Rouge drawing I was working on.

I'm working with some tech support to try and retrieve it, but it's not looking good so far.

I could really use some prayer, guys. I know God has it under control and that even if it is gone for good, I'll be okay in the long run. But right now, it just hurts. So bad. So prayers for peace and being able to let go would be appreciated.

Thanks to everyone who has liked and shared my art. If I hadn't started posting most of my pieces here, a lot of my fully rendered art would be completely lost to the sands of time.

[genericpuff]

welp, this kinda sucks

I'm currently at odds with the PC that I got a couple months ago, it's started freezing and soft-resetting randomly for seemingly no reason. It would usually be after hours of use that I could chalk up to the memory overloading, but now it's happening as soon as I boot up the frigging thing. And just to make it clear how much I've done on my own to diagnose the problem, our attempts to fix it have included the following:

Limiting startup applications

Running virus / malware scans

Swapping out display monitors

Updating the GPU drivers

Setting a lower overclock profile in the BIOS settings

Swapping out power cables and outlets to check for power surges

So far none of these things have worked and if anything, the issue has just gotten worse in the last two days. Like, it can barely make it to the startup screen sometimes, despite the memory and CPU usage being >20%, there is zero reason it would be the PC overclocking itself just from startup.

(and no, it doesn't even compel me, i'm just annoyed to shit LOL)

So I dropped it off with the guy who built it (he runs an electronics / pawn shop downtown that's very reputable and well-known so it's not like I don't trust him or anything, he's been building PC's for people in the area for years) and it's now in his care for the next day or two while he tries to isolate the problem. Right now the only thing I can imagine being the problem is the power supply or my display monitor, which is my old Huion Kamvas 22 Plus that still works as a monitor, just not a drawing tablet - but if something's still fucking around in the tablet, it could be causing problems through the PC, maybe.

When I dropped it off with the guy, he went and set it up in his office and came out and told me that so far it seemed to be running just fine, when he asked me if I was doing anything specific I told him it was crashing even after startup so I gave him permission to overclock the shit out of it, run 53879205893 browser tabs, run my games, software, anything he needed to do to push it to its limits and see if he could replicate the problem.

I am terrified if it has to do with the motherboard, because that will be an expensive replacement that will also potentially lead to losing files / installations / etc. depending on how big an issue it is. It could also potentially be Windows 11 having a hissy fit especially seeing as how it's freezing up on startup, but doesn't freeze on the BIOS screen when it loads up in safe-mode after hard resets, so something is clearly happening between the hard boot-up and the startup of Windows 11 itself.

Thankfully I do have Google Drive sync support and plenty of external HDD's that I can back my stuff up to, but with the freezing and restarting getting as bad as it's been, I haven't been able to back anything up, and I don't want to risk doing it manually if it'll just freeze and potentially corrupt my files in the process. So I told the guy to call me if he needed to mess with anything concerning the system storage so that, if he could at least keep it running stable in the shop, then I could swing by and get everything I needed synced up safely before he messes around with anything.

It could also very well have something to do with the power supply itself, the house that I occupy the main floor of isn't exactly built with electric optimization in mind, we've had fuses blow on us before just from running the hair dryer at the same time as the TV, so if it's something to do with the PC drawing too much power for the electrical system here to keep up with, either (hopefully) the guy will be able to instruct me on how to lower and manage that power intake through the PC's BIOS (I believe you can but I'm still a massive noob on custom builds and I don't want to go tinkering with it myself) or, idk, maybe I'll have to get my landlord to drop by again with his electrician and check out the fuses to make sure they're all operating properly. I'm not an electrician either, so fuck if I know at this point what could be going on. I feel like it can't be the house itself because everything else is running fine and it's just become a recent issue, but our city's power grid is also not exactly praised for being good at its job, especially not in the winter.

So yeah, I'm a little - well, a lot - stressed right now, but all I can really do at this point is wait. Fortunately, I have my iPad and also remembered that I still have my old PC, so I've hooked it up, at best if the problem repeats itself on this PC then I'll know it has to do with the display monitor, at worst I'll just be stuck working with my clunky old hardware for a couple days, which is annoying, but it'll get the job done. Fortunately I had the newest episode of Rekindled uploaded to the cloud in Clip Studio so I can still download it and work on it, which was my biggest worry when everything started to go belly-up (next to just, like, having a working PC).

Sooooo yeah. It's annoying, but I'm hoping for the best. Send good vibes y'all, I really could use it rn, between this and slow traffic at work and some other personal shit that's been going on, it's been a shitty few days (╥﹏╥)

And yeah, I'll keep y'all updated on if it affects this week's update, it really shouldn't honestly as most of the work left is doable from both my iPad and PC, but obviously at this point anything can happen so if anything has to be postponed or changed to accommodate the current situation, I'll update y'all as soon as I can! Thanks everyone, y'all are the best, wish me luck <3

[becdecorbin]

my computer is already 11 years old, I've had to replace a few components here and there but man wouldn't surprise me if the motherboard is failing since it can't detect the ethernet connections at all, despite troubleshooting. the wifi still works on my phone and laptop.

any motherboard recommendations?

edit: and i may have to upgrade my CPU as well. aaagh

[vexic929]

ok y'all I'm switching from Windows OS with a new laptop soon got any suggestions? not going Mac or Google since they're just as bad if not worse, thinking about Linux mint or Zorin

[resshako]

Weekly updates (Jun 16 - 23):

Digital artwork has been stopped because of my computer needing to be fixed

Working on furry oc / mascot

Setting up patreon subscriptions and art

Happy Father's Day!

Happy pride!

Art:

[bisexualbaker]

[Alt]

I am so very, very glad that I have Firefox set to ask me where I want to save it every time I download a file, because once in a while something like this pops up when I'm browsing Tumblr, and that means I can click "Cancel" with extreme prejudice.

I don't know what that file is, where it came from, or why Tumblr wants me to download it, so I don't trust it for a second. And yes, download prompts for unfamiliar files with keysmash names have only popped up while I'm scrolling through Tumblr.

If I didn't have Firefox set up the way it is, I probably wouldn't even notice that I was downloading these files in the first place, let alone stop it before it happened.

[sapsuckers-and-stardust]

My laptop just crashed and died and I think that’s 24k words of really excellent writing just fucking lost to the ether. (And hundreds of pages of sheet music I’ve composed and dozens of songs I’ve recorded)

Love my life! If anyone knows how to use apple recovery mode please message me!

[mariaashby64]

Anyone know how to recover missing DELTARUNE savefiles?

I hunted down my old computer and while I was able to find deltarune on the device there were no save files, for neither chapter 1 nor chapter 2.

I checked \appdata\local but was unable to find anything. Even booting up the game shows that there's no old saves in there.

Any tips or am I just replaying the entire thing?

[huckleberrycomics]

I’ve broken about 5 in my life…… I’m a mac user, typically.

[kiriekonamistan]

I dunno why but Tumblr isn't loading images for me right now.

I can see text posts just fine, but my URL bar normally has a 'refresh' arrow at the right side when a website's finished loading right now I've got the 'x' which is to cancel loading the page. I don't know if I'm just having computer issues or what, but it SEEMS like everyone else's Tumblrs are working fine??

All of the images are just diagonal color gradients...

[nocturnal-nexu]

I'm pretty sure that my whole art file is gone for good. It's not coming back y'all.

It's been a ride. Lots of crying and processing. But I feel pretty content with it now.

My brain is absolutely spinning with new ideas. I think my brain went, "Oh, this art is gone? MUST! MAKE! MORE! ART!!!!"

Making art is definitely a wonderful salve to this hurt. I've reminded myself that just because some of my older pieces are gone, that doesn't mean that the fun I had making them is lost. God has given me the will and creative brain to create! So I will keep creating! Life isn't going to be perfect, but God has got me and will continue to be there for me in the highs and lows.

[speedroidwing]

Someone help me

My internett adapter keeps fucking braking and even if I fix it by restartet it, updateing it, reinstaling it, running checks and it ses both the hardware and the driver works but then im told by Windows system controwl that it isent running so I go and try and fix that but it is running and inabaled

I JUST WHAT MY INTERNET TO WORK

[choshasan]

Computer / Gaming side of tumbler, Help??

so like.. I have this thing that happens on my computer when I try to play video games.. not every game does it, and it's not studio specific either,

idk how to explain it so here's some screenshots:

SeekL - by robobarbie

Killer chat - by roserot

Stillwater - by Studio Clump

I don't have screenshots but, A Date With Death - by Two and a Half Studio also lagged this way, the background of Casper's room would lag like that

and another game all the backgrounds did this but I can't remember which it was and I don't have the time to go through all my games at 3:30 a.m. lol

all the games I have that do these were obtained through Itch. io and unzipped/extracted with WinRAR with "extract here" function

whether I run games as administrator or not does not change anything to this issue

the only issue my pc could have that I can think of is, I *am* running these on a 14 y/o graphics card (2010)

^ my graphics card

it's genuinely not a great graphics card, but it also can run games like Genshin Impact & Zenless Zone Zero with little to no problems

has anyone else ever encountered this issue? if so, did you manage to fix it/ how?

I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling games, it does not work

I know it's a minor issue, but it does often ruin my gaming experience on games I am certain I could genuinely love otherwise

I've looked online and either I just can't describe the issue well enough to find a solution, or just no one else has had this issue before, which I doubt lmao, I also looked in all the games' comment sections on itch. io and it doesn't seem like anyone else has these issues...

anyway, thank you in advance to anyone that can help!! <3 <3

[mlp410nightcore]

Hi Everyone!! If you're wondering why there has been a small lag in me posting art, well it's because after I had posted my two latest next gens, Odessa and Maya, my computer monitor started to glitch out and stop working completely to the point where it was hurting my eyes to even look at it. So until I get a new one, which will hopefully be sooner rather than later, I won't be able to make any more next gens and other paintings until I get a new monitor. Thank you for understanding, have a beautiful day and always believe in yourselves!!!