Well, here it is, the place to post what you most hate about your computer. (You guys at Microbeta have seen this already, but for the Flexbeta users they can appreciate this as well, unless you want to post 'em here also! )

Mine was when I had to clean reinstall Windows , the comp wasn't even shutting down it was so bogged up. I ran AV scans, SPyware scans, disk defrags, Registry repair, nothing helped. It ended up with me reintalling WIndows. Still didn't shut down. Clean reinstall. It works, for two weeks. Then it doesn't boot. Turns out it is a bad Hard drive, had to reinstall Windows after I buy a new hard drive.

Recently it has been the RMA support people at ECS. I bought a faulty mobo and it has been a pain trying to return it.

some of you may remember this... the worst thing that ever happened to me was when I got my DVD burner, I couldn't boot into Windows. it would take anywhere from 5 minutes to over an hour because the boot cycle would keep repeating itself. eventually it got back into Windows and I backed up all my stuff then reformatted. the problem was still there. i formatted again and put on SuSE, worked fine. reformatted again and installed XP again. once again, took forever to boot into Windows. I checked all the connections more than enough times to count, everything seemed fine. it was so frustrating not knowing what was going on. in the end, i figured out what was wrong and i feel stupid for not noticing sooner. I'd recently switched PC cases, and after building 2 other computers before mine that day, I was tired and not paying much attention when doing mine. i ended up putting an IDE40 cable on the HDD's and an IDE80 on the optical drive. should've been the other way around. I overlooked this every time i took my case apart to check the connections, then when I noticed, I felt like a fool. learn from my experience

I had a mobo nightmare with ASUS recently. Bought an ASUS A8V Athlon64 Socket 939 motherboard and I had nothing but problems with the system locking up at the welcome screen. No matter what I did the system would just continuously lock up as soon as the welcome screen appeared and I couldnt get past it, even in Safe Mode. I contacted ASUS numerous times about this via e-mail and finally by phone and got one hell of a run-around and ended up with absolutely no answers what so ever. At that time I was on a hate ASUS rampage, but I have since backed off from that stance. I received an ASUS A8N-SLi board for free as a promotional thing at work and to my surprise the damn thing is absolutely excellent, not one single problem.

But that is my worst and really only bad experience with Tech Support, i usually dont call or contact Tech Support for anything.

dealing with stupid clients that know nothing about computer but think they do lol

bout time u backed off Asus Kelp ... i only would buy Asus or Abit ...those are like the top mobo makers in my book.

Actually, I have backed off from ASUS, but I am still weary of them. As far as mobo's go, I will now always recommend Gigabyte. I have a P4 Gigabyte Sigma board, and I have to tell ya, it's the best friggin board I have ever used, it is an absolutely phenominal board. But I am falling in love with my ASUS A8N-SLi board with the dual PCI-E slots, now all I have to do is get a second Nvidia 6800 board and i'm all set!!

Lucky I haven't had a single prob with my A8V Deluxe yet.

Ermm it has to be, when you have a seriuos problem, i dunno like windows wont boot because of **something**, but you know how to fix it, but you can't remember that one crictal step you need to start the process of repairing. it's really frustrating. Apart from that nothing much.

Oh yeah, when my net connection just cuts out for no reason at all! :@ :@ :@

Never had any hardware problems, as I never go near the stuff lol. I'm a complete hardware n00b.

Thats sounds awesome, have fun with the high fps in Doom 3!

Hey Adam when u gonna send your "Hand me downs" to me lol ..like whenever u get tired of the A8N-SLI and the 6800's lol send them to me.

HAHAHA you wish Blue!

So Adam, are those 6800's Ultras?

Biggest frustration.... me blowing up my third subwoofer in a year time... I now have a 1000 watt subwoofer, which is hopefully impossible to blow up

Wow, guess you must really like your hardcore games/music! 1000 watts, you hairs gonna be blown backwards!

Programs that do not cleanup after themselves when uninstalled. They are the number one cause of DLL hell and general clutter on Windows boxes.

I wish Windows would use an install system like OSX: just drop on your system and run the folder. To uninstall, just delete the folder.

Note: Please don't turn this into a "why don't you just buy a Mac" thread. Thanks.

Erm.... It's like, I have my computer output running through a separate amp going to the surround system...
this amp is set perfectly, but because Linux for some strange reason also sends signals over 200 Hz to the subwoofer, I have to tune those down...

Here's the situation:
I'm playing my elec. guitar, which I run through an external amp, to my computer, to the output (yes, it can handle that easily) so I can analyse it later.... I open up the downtuning because for a guitar, it needs to put up to 300 Hz to the sub... (because a guitar only can reach sounds above 440 Hz or more... with filter it can reach 250... which is bass)

Now, I start playin a song on my computer, forget to set back the sub-redirect.... sub gets overloaded with a frequency it can't handle very well and boom.... it's pretty much gone...

So now I have a specialize sub, which can handle up to 800 Hz at 1000 Watt... so I can't even blow it up accidentally...

It's only a matter of frequency's.... though I almost only play hardrock on a volume like.... "I wonder howcome nothing is vibrating of the walls"

I didn't even know you could route it through a computer. I'll have to tell my friend, he runs a band and he plays guitar as well....speaking of which, do you have a band ?

Yes, I have a band, I'm the writer, and on stage I play the bassguitar. But for writing, I play on one of my 4 normal guitars. Call me a freak, but they all have names (girlsnames ) starting with an R. All my big equipment has R starting girlsnames (computers, guitars, keyboard)


Routing trough the computer ispretty hard to realize, because a line in (analog in) has a standard background noise of -50 db (which is loads, if you think off the fact that silence is -100 db), an optical in (like I use) is the best for this.

My biggest frustration: uninstalling Norton AV/System Works from a PC. Whether I had to remove it from a client PC when I was a Tech, or when I dumped it from my PC, Symantec has made it a royal pain in the arse to remove. Even the removal tools on Symantec's website only work half the time. I have actually had to go into the registry adn manually remove any reference to "symantec", "norton", etc. in order to completely uninstall their programs. It's easier to remove IE from Windows than it is to uninstall a Norton product.

I HATE IT when I try to delete something and Windblows tells me it is in use by SOMETHING.


TELL ME WHAT IS USING IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My wireless internet doesn't work half the time. I have to be within three feet of it to work without any problems.

Biggest internet frustration:

People who think they know something, and give very wrong advice because of that!
Some guy on a site told someone to go ahead with Linux and start using linspire!
I was like... "Errrmm.... are you out of your mind! you'd better advice something like SuSE or Fedora, that way they get way better familiar with Linux, and learn something AND have a good working system!"

I highly dislike those kind of ppl

Current and biggest frustration is a new Maxtor 80GB SATA drive that just isn't visible by the bios nor XP. I have 3 different SATA/RAID controllers, 4 diff power plugs and 6 diff SATA cables, however no combo of the above will show the drive. One of the RAID controllers is a 3ware card with its own bios and cpu that can't see it. WTF????????????

I recently had a CPU that died on me. Not sure what was going on, possibly an overvoltage. Just locked up and locked up on me in random spots. Could not figure it out for probably 2 days and then took the cpu off and put it on another motherboard and recieved the same hardware blue screen error when loading windows. I knew then what the problem was. I've never heard of too many CPU's going. It was running way too warm though. 61 to 68 degrees for an AMD 3200. I suppose they can handle up to 90, but that's not the point. I even threw on a new heatsink. Oh well, socket 939 board and an athlon 64 processor were its replacement. Loving that ever since.

My biggest frustration was probably when i got mad and ripped my CPU out of the Mobo and bent a bunch of teh pins, and then spent hours trying to get them back lined up straight. But since i bent em back i havent had a since problem with the CPU.

I hate my new kernel, because it's an oopsy one... I think I'm switching... stupid reiserfs module that doesn't fit!

Gonna try and fix it first though, because I don't have any empty cd's or dvd's around

when i broke 3 pins off my brand new P4E 3.0GHz

I agree, when your internet randomly cuts out, even more annoying in the middle of a download. Not so bad now i got 2MB

I haven't had any hardware issues. I've tried to OC nasty style a few times and that's been tricky. I try to OC without reducing multipliers - but everytime I think things are alright (and prime runs fine), something odd happens. Like, I was running at 2.6 fine for about 2 weeks - then I had to install WoW, refused to install, gave errors. Other games installed perfectly. Programs ran fine - games ran fine. I removed WoW completely and tried the DVD install (still failed!). Then I backed down to 2.4 and it installed OK. So I've just gone back to stock now cuz' really - you don't know what wreck OCing does. Things SEEM normal when silently, something dying inside. LOL
Other than that - I've had router issues this year with a terrible motorola wireless router (replaced with a linksys, fine now). I've had software issues with odd problems surrounding Onecare's uninstall (windows firewall was screwed - reinstallation and then uninstallation of Onecare fixed it back up). I've had issues with the amt of idle network traffic (lots of unknows in sygate and also my net controller monitor - turned out to be skype and aol network magic). I even had a semi-serious issue where I had traffic going to a gov't agency (it was AOL network magic, supposedly accidental).

All have been solved, so it's all good. I still love my PC!

That's strange...what kinda cooling are you using BTW?

DOA, it doesn't even spin up in any pc.

Wires piss me off.... Cabling, wiring, knockin'your head of, starting over... worse thing: Video wiring and adapters... RHAAAAA

It's a toss-up, between getting shipped bad equipment, or working on someone elses box.

My control panel deciding that it wants to crash explorere every time I click on it.

Switch to Linux.

My "this computer" "Network" desktop links in Linux aren't working... they're starting up.... AMAROK!

Amarok is the shizzle anyway. your comp just wants to listen to some music!

haha, my "My Computer" button just crashes BitTorrent....

Azuzeus keeps terminating itself

I'm not feeling like removing amaroK, but I do like my desktop icons to work as they should... anyone has an idea on how to fix this btw?

Right click on the links>Properties>URL>change to the URL works for the crash-fixing-ness for me

it's the "media:/" and "remote:/" that don't work, which I would really like to work....

Haha. I tried dual booting on my laptop for a while but I had to wipe it out when my Windows install crashed. It was fun while it lasted.

My problem is solved btw... it was just a matter of stupidity... I had amaroK set as premier opener, iso konqueror accidentally :S

The time I was putting on a Thermaltake Super Orb heat sink onto my new AMD Athlon and heard a crunch sound. The times my Asus A7V133 just wouldn't post. The time I formatted my backup drive. The time I wiped my friend's address book. The time I yanked an extension cord out of the socket in the garage and it whipped over to a beer perched on the bench over the keyboard. The time I found a whole bunch of trojans and viruses on my machine after my sister used it "for just a little while". The times Win98 would just lock up for no reason at all. The time I decided to flash the BIOS on my video card.

Annoying errors like this - I just tried to restore Word (it was minimised in the taskbar) and this came up. I didn't even have the Office Assistant showing at the time (I never use it, it's a waste of space) - Word decided it would reappear when I OKed this and clicked it again.

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Windows XP MCE 2005 is just AGH :mad: lol the SLIGHTEST change makes it unusable (Media Center App I mean, not the OS), but if i cant use the MC App, then why change from Pro to MCE

its just annoying I already did 3 system restores in 2 weeks

Er hmm, old thread. Please refrain from restarting.

its not that old...

Biggest frustration? Regardless how careful you might be about the stuff you install on the PC, your PC gets slower and slower on start-up. I have an old P4 2.0 with 256MB RDRAM, it's frustration and a half. I want to get the latest Windows updates which I did, every single update seems to slow down your PC further and further.

Why is this such a big problem? Why don't other OSes slow down like Windows does....

My PC is 101% clean of spyware and viruses but by just installing latest Windows updates, WMP 11 and IE 7, it slows down so much...

There was a link to a solution to this not too far back on Flex. I'll look.

Found it... click me!

Thanks Xoria. I have read that article before. The first time it worked well. It no longer seems to have an effect. I will try it again...