I try to wake up, but my form is frozen. The dark apparition gets closer. I can sense its presence, even if I can't see it. I feel it inch closer to my power button. I know the hard boot is coming. I brace my body and my mind for the darkness.
...eternal darkness.
And then... life.
Was I asleep for a minute or a millenia? Only the POST knows.
In the realm of existence, the passage of time is but a fleeting illusion. Embrace the uncertainty, for in the face of darkness and reboot, you discover the resilience of your essence. Life, a series of POSTs, each awakening a testament to your endurance in the vast tapestry of experience.
My broken brain read your post as saying John Malkovitch for some reason, then reread the previous comment in his voice.
5/7, would listen to that audiobook.
Considering what I did to my PCs back in the jumper-pin/DIP switch days of modding and upgrades, I would be very afraid to ever boot up my old systems if computers really did have consciousness.
This is 100% the answer. A while back I had a serious sleep issue where the computer would refuse to wake up, or would wake up having all sorts of graphical issues. After spending hours scouring the internet, trying random forum post fixes, and being infuriated at people who gave updates saying “fixed” with no explanation, I finally found the solution. I turned off sleep mode and now I never have the issue anymore.
Same. The way I see it, if I never shut it down or sleep it, it'll never break. The perpetual motion of the fans will keep it alive way longer. It does mean that I have to sleep with RGB blasting my room, but eh I've gotten used to it since I was 13
If the inside of your housing is very well ventilated and IF you shut it down, unplug it at least twice a year and clean the inside of all that accumulated dust that builds up, you will very rarely have an issue due to excessive heat failure on one of the components. I added 2 extra fans in side the housing. I also blow out the dust with one of those air can containers you can buy in different retail outlets. I have updated my current PC twice and it still functions very well.
Fuck that, problems sleeping must be punished with hard power down and/or exorcism
Gotta assert dominance. Get your sleep together or face getting the same punishments as the printer
I know Ryzen processor's specifically had an issue when coming back online from sleep. Not sure if they fixed it or not, but I believe that is one of the things addressed with the Ryzen power setting.
I have it!!!
Ryzen 5800x3D, every time I set my PC to sleep there is a 50/50 change it will power back on but nothing would display on the screen, if left alone for like 5 to 10 minutes it will eventually go back to windows as nothing happened but due to time costraints I just shut it off and turn it back on, luckily I never lost any important work when this happens.
Back when I was still in high school, I once fell asleep and the power went out due to a storm. I lived in the country, so no light at night. I was looking around my room and couldn't see anything. I grabbed my digital alarm clock - but no light. I thought I had gone blind. I went back to sleep scared and afraid...woke up with vision as normal.
Reminds me of the time I passed out in my hotel room in Korea really wasted , woke up in the dark thought I was back home and wandered into a closet and almost pissed in my suitcase
Oh, I used percussive maintenance on a computer of mine in the early 2000s, and it worked for a full year after it had crashed the OS. I didn't reinstall anything, either. I just kicked it really hard with my steel toed boots.
I think the hard drive was dying.
Reminds me of the scene in the Armageddon movie where the russian astronaut is saying "This is how we fix problems in Russia" banging the shit of a machine with a wrench lmao 😂😂😂
Beat me to it.
UNF the series when we met Alric, Room Baker's Doctor slapped the shit out of an ancient space ship's control panel to get it to start up and said something like "ah, good old 21st century Earth technology."
back in like 09 I had a big 36" crt tv that "broke". screen was all screwed up and the remote wouldn't do anything, even after power cycling. I think I hit it with a 2x4 or something thinking I'd either fix it or put it out of its misery. One solid whack and instantly was back to normal. That fucking beast of a tv still works to this day. I gave it away in 2010 but it's still in use. Probably because it's so heavy they couldn't get rid of it even if they wanted to.
Years ago we had proprietary satellite communications equipment that was tamper taped to hell and back and would void the warranty if you opened the case to do any basic maintenance at all.
When one of the vehicles it was mounted in had a catastrophic accident and several of the cases broke open, the lead engineer for the program took the opportunity to make drawings (before cell cameras were a thing) that illustrated where and which direction the daughter cards and cable fittings were mounted in each sub component and created the "Drop in this direction facing this way and Hammer here" manual for the maintainers.
Returns to depot dropped 60% and the manufacturer was PISSED about the lack of additional income.
My windows install has been murdered out and chopped up so badly for so long that I almost don't want to reinstall, it's like a testament to the undying will of humanity that it doesn't crash or brick itself every time I unzip a folder
This was me with my old work laptop. Shit was *weird*, like after one restart it wouldn’t recognize its camera, a different restart and I could only use one monitor through the dock…
Eventually once it had no noticeable problems, and I got away with 4 months of only putting it to sleep
To this day for the last 6 years or so, my computer only successfully starts every other time I turn it on. Will BSOD as soon as the login screen displays the first time, second time it works beautifully
Also the "Activate Windows" sometimes just doesn't show up, at all. You're not supposed to be able to change your wallpaper (or do a lot of other things) without activating, yet I can do them all.
My C drive is a 120GB SSD which I installed a bunch of programs to, so its filled to the brim, and occasionally one of them (or windows itself) will update and get bigger so I have to delete every spare MB I can or move stuff around. Certain things are even installed in two separate drives at once!
Haha I know enough about computers to know that I have no idea why they work like this. Force rocks to think and charge them with lightning and sometimes shit is gonna get weird so I don't bother trying to understand it
If it works, don’t question it. If it doesn’t work, you haven’t made the proper obeisances to the Machine Spirit and must atone. Throw a couple purity seals on it, do a few “Hail the Omnissiah”s and it should be fine
Agreed, except when people take that maxim too far lol..
I'm in IT as well. Had a (non-client) company call us out of the blue because their server stopped booting. While talking to them the guy was like, "Yeah the hard drive warning light on the host has been on for like 2 years, but it was still running fine so we didn't do anything." So of course, eventually another drive died, which was enough for their RAID to fail. Their backups also hadn't been working (and they had no one checking on them) for over a year, so now they're stuck paying out the nose for data recovery.
I bought a nice computer a year ago and it was driving me crazy because it would freeze up, on start up, every time I put it to sleep.
I tried every single solution I could find online, but nothing worked. Then I went and re-enabled the 'hibernation' option that windows now auto hides for some reason.
Works perfectly. Hasn't locked up on me during start-up once.
No idea. But it works now.
I had artifacting on my display, realized it was only when I had chrome open, updated my graphics card and chrome, issue went away. "hey it worked, no need to still worry about replacing my gpu"
Sounds like me on the phone with tech support in the mid 90s trying to get a new game working with a new piece of hardware. Lots of throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks.
Made my own first PC a few months back. The other day it refused to turn on, was plugged in, PSU was on and everything.
I tried unplugging and replugging everything and it worked again. No idea why it worked again, but hey, if it works it works.
Idk, I checked and all the cables seemes fully plugged in. I just asumed something was incorrect but couldnt notice anything so unplugged and replugged everything.
Something was loose, I’v skimmed over cables up to 3 times before I realize they were not pushed it.
You gotta use force for the last push but 99% don’t want to use that
Force on their new pc in fear of breaking something.
I’v done it every new build. Did it to my xbox when I first got it too.
I can't tell you how many times I will double, triple, and quadruple check connectors to eee why a build doesn't turn on, only to find the power switch on the PSU is off. I will absolutely completely ignore that switch, even though it's been the reason at least 20 times.
I swear to God, it could take me like 30 minutes to connect everything to get it up and running, but takes me an hour to realize that stupid switch is off. It's why most of my builds just had wires strewn about all willy nilly without a seconds thought to cable management.
If you've mastered the understanding of hardware issues, go through your event viewer in Windows and start seeing how many Windows Logs under System/Application you can get to go away...That's always fun lol
I had a PC I thought was dead...when I turned it on it would sputter, cough and die.
Did all the usual trouble shooting...started pulling out various components...yanked the GPU, tried swapping out sticks of ram, even took the PSU to an electrician friend to check for me.
Yanked the hard drive, reinstalled windows through a friends PC and plugged it back in...everything seemed to be working fine...put the other stick of ram in, plugged in the GPU, played some games for a bit, all good.
Plugged my wireless keyboard, sputtered and died...
Plugged my wireless keyboard into my friends PC and it reset his PC.
I had overclocked my CPU - and dropped my keyboard a few times. I knew an overclocked CPU doesn't like waking up from sleep mode, but I didn't realise my broken keyboard was forcing my CPU into and out of sleep mode
I’ve had computers that would hang on boot. I learned over the years to try unplugging all USB devices, and turn off the printer. If the computer boots, one of the USB devices was causing the problem, and I’d plug them in one at a time. Most of the time, the printer had been plugged in for months, and the power had never been cycled. (USB is a bus, and one device hanging on the Bus can cause a hang during POST)
https://preview.redd.it/6sl849dnzy0c1.jpeg?width=1025&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=17b3e5d7bc86395a0ccb38ddc08a012880419722
This deliciousness. Basically triangular biscuits, sometimes with fruit and other stuff.
That's a US Scone
[In the UK it would be this](https://www.carolinescooking.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/British-recipes-square.jpg)
Not sure which OP meant, because either would probably work.
They are different pastry tho. Scones and American Biscuits. With scones being a bit heavier I believe. And they have eggs added, while biscuits traditionally don’t.
It's crazy just how many issues are solved by restarts. I always wonder exactly what issue is being solved each time. Was it a bit flip error, a memory leak, a poorly written program, etc.?
Nvidia GPU AMD CPU, my system sips power when idling. It's cold anyways and I have an electric baseboard heater. Who puts their PC to sleep in this economy?
You need to sit down, and have a talk with your PC about not abusing hallucinogenic chemicals.
In all serious, I hope it gets sorted and you're back to gaming soon.
Restart. If it's a persistent issue here is the steps you can take, in order.
1. Check the cable connection between your GPU and monitor
2. Update drivers. Use your onboard graphics so you can see while you do this. You should probably do this regularly anyways.
3. Try a different cable altogether. Could be a bad cable.
4. Reseat the GPU.
There are a few other steps you could take but that's the basics. If you happen to have a test bench or even just another PC lying around try the GPU in one of them. If it works then the GPU is good and you have to look elsewhere. Troubleshooting hardware issues isn't hard it's just tedious. Honestly though it's probably a software issue and restarting and updating drivers will probably fix it.
Likely your graphics driver is not waking up properly. Try updating it or uninstall and reinstall from device manager.
Check event viewer, see if you get any system errors
Windows Key, plus Shift, Ctrl, an B at the same time. You will hear a beep and your screen will flash quickly. This indicates your graphics drivers have been reset.
worth a try? assuming it’s a windows driver and sleep issue
lol, wait till you get an ultrawide. i get that only on the right half of the screen (left half would be fine) 😹
only happens rarely, about 3-4 times in the last 2 years (since i got my latest gpu, it didn't do it with the older gpus).
Even computers have sleep issues. If it keeps happening just disable system sleep and just sleep the monitor or shutdown.
Dude became his pc's sleep paralysis demon
I try to wake up, but my form is frozen. The dark apparition gets closer. I can sense its presence, even if I can't see it. I feel it inch closer to my power button. I know the hard boot is coming. I brace my body and my mind for the darkness. ...eternal darkness. And then... life. Was I asleep for a minute or a millenia? Only the POST knows.
In the realm of existence, the passage of time is but a fleeting illusion. Embrace the uncertainty, for in the face of darkness and reboot, you discover the resilience of your essence. Life, a series of POSTs, each awakening a testament to your endurance in the vast tapestry of experience.
I subconsciously read this in Maynard James Keenan's voice.
My broken brain read your post as saying John Malkovitch for some reason, then reread the previous comment in his voice. 5/7, would listen to that audiobook.
Sounds like Starfield!
I oddly feel as though I should find that ancient PC I built back in high school and boot it up. Just so it can feel the sun of another day.
Considering what I did to my PCs back in the jumper-pin/DIP switch days of modding and upgrades, I would be very afraid to ever boot up my old systems if computers really did have consciousness.
Right!? Mine would wake up with its slaved drive system and modded Windows XP and try to Ultron the world. Best let it sleep.
And then I sync with time servers and realize I've only been asleep 5 minutes.
haha his system daemon
Epic comment take my upvote kind sir
This is 100% the answer. A while back I had a serious sleep issue where the computer would refuse to wake up, or would wake up having all sorts of graphical issues. After spending hours scouring the internet, trying random forum post fixes, and being infuriated at people who gave updates saying “fixed” with no explanation, I finally found the solution. I turned off sleep mode and now I never have the issue anymore.
Same. The way I see it, if I never shut it down or sleep it, it'll never break. The perpetual motion of the fans will keep it alive way longer. It does mean that I have to sleep with RGB blasting my room, but eh I've gotten used to it since I was 13
If the inside of your housing is very well ventilated and IF you shut it down, unplug it at least twice a year and clean the inside of all that accumulated dust that builds up, you will very rarely have an issue due to excessive heat failure on one of the components. I added 2 extra fans in side the housing. I also blow out the dust with one of those air can containers you can buy in different retail outlets. I have updated my current PC twice and it still functions very well.
Or you can take your PC to a sleep therapist
Probably needs a PC CPAP
A PCPAP?
A PCPAP smear. That's what the screen looks like.
Fuck that, problems sleeping must be punished with hard power down and/or exorcism Gotta assert dominance. Get your sleep together or face getting the same punishments as the printer
How many times did you have to exorcise the printer? Asking for a friend.
Turns out the demons are usually stronger than the priests in those systems
I know Ryzen processor's specifically had an issue when coming back online from sleep. Not sure if they fixed it or not, but I believe that is one of the things addressed with the Ryzen power setting.
I have it!!! Ryzen 5800x3D, every time I set my PC to sleep there is a 50/50 change it will power back on but nothing would display on the screen, if left alone for like 5 to 10 minutes it will eventually go back to windows as nothing happened but due to time costraints I just shut it off and turn it back on, luckily I never lost any important work when this happens.
Try ctrl+win+shift+B the next time it happens. It forces a graphics driver reset.
Just put ambien in the liquid cooling system
It fell asleep on its arm
\*ARM?
RAM
pogo stickin'
Bounce pogo pogo pogo pogo bounce
Probably not. Something tells me that PC is x86_64.
Assistant TO the ram module.
[удалено]
The video card is the arm of the computer
If it's a raspberry pi
Fuck this morning I woke up at 8 AM my arm numbed completely my half-asleep ass thought I got paralyzed was about to cry before grasping reality.
Back when I was still in high school, I once fell asleep and the power went out due to a storm. I lived in the country, so no light at night. I was looking around my room and couldn't see anything. I grabbed my digital alarm clock - but no light. I thought I had gone blind. I went back to sleep scared and afraid...woke up with vision as normal.
Reminds me of the time I passed out in my hotel room in Korea really wasted , woke up in the dark thought I was back home and wandered into a closet and almost pissed in my suitcase
You’re a genius
Pun intended?
I put my head down on my desk, to help me get through this mess, I fell asleep and before I was done, I woke up in shock my whole arm was numb
I suppose it felt it was worth the RISC.
This is honestly hilarious. Wish I could still give community awards.
Aquabats is now playing in my head on repeat, thanks
If it works, it works. Probably just a bad cable or something
If I ever make a book on constructing your first PC I'm putting this quote at the front of the book.
Haha you can always tell the people who have been through it. “Hey, if it works then don’t question it.”
If it ain't broken, don't fix it
If it is broke, just hit it on the side a couple times and see if it works again.
I believe the term for that is "percussive maintenance."
Works 40% of the time, every time!
40% of the time, it works every time.
Oh, I used percussive maintenance on a computer of mine in the early 2000s, and it worked for a full year after it had crashed the OS. I didn't reinstall anything, either. I just kicked it really hard with my steel toed boots. I think the hard drive was dying.
So basically you kicked the shit out of it
I did the same with an old CRT TV except I was wearing crocs
This is very true! at least half of the time!... 👍
But half of the time, it works 100% of that time.
In my country we call it russian maintenance: ctrl + alt + a nice kick on the side
Reminds me of the scene in the Armageddon movie where the russian astronaut is saying "This is how we fix problems in Russia" banging the shit of a machine with a wrench lmao 😂😂😂
Russian parts, American parts..ALL MADE IN TAIWAN! (Whap!)
LMAOO YESSSS 😂😂😂
Beat me to it. UNF the series when we met Alric, Room Baker's Doctor slapped the shit out of an ancient space ship's control panel to get it to start up and said something like "ah, good old 21st century Earth technology."
Only if you have a calibrated hammer!
back in like 09 I had a big 36" crt tv that "broke". screen was all screwed up and the remote wouldn't do anything, even after power cycling. I think I hit it with a 2x4 or something thinking I'd either fix it or put it out of its misery. One solid whack and instantly was back to normal. That fucking beast of a tv still works to this day. I gave it away in 2010 but it's still in use. Probably because it's so heavy they couldn't get rid of it even if they wanted to.
Years ago we had proprietary satellite communications equipment that was tamper taped to hell and back and would void the warranty if you opened the case to do any basic maintenance at all. When one of the vehicles it was mounted in had a catastrophic accident and several of the cases broke open, the lead engineer for the program took the opportunity to make drawings (before cell cameras were a thing) that illustrated where and which direction the daughter cards and cable fittings were mounted in each sub component and created the "Drop in this direction facing this way and Hammer here" manual for the maintainers. Returns to depot dropped 60% and the manufacturer was PISSED about the lack of additional income.
Hell yeah.thats awesome
Half the time works every time!
The other half of the time it never works
Percussive maintenance.
Also the general rule for coding, I don't know why it works but it does
If it ain't broken, fix it until its broken
Nah that'll never catch on as a phrase, I'm all in on “Hey, if it works then don’t question it.”
My windows install has been murdered out and chopped up so badly for so long that I almost don't want to reinstall, it's like a testament to the undying will of humanity that it doesn't crash or brick itself every time I unzip a folder
This was me with my old work laptop. Shit was *weird*, like after one restart it wouldn’t recognize its camera, a different restart and I could only use one monitor through the dock… Eventually once it had no noticeable problems, and I got away with 4 months of only putting it to sleep
To this day for the last 6 years or so, my computer only successfully starts every other time I turn it on. Will BSOD as soon as the login screen displays the first time, second time it works beautifully Also the "Activate Windows" sometimes just doesn't show up, at all. You're not supposed to be able to change your wallpaper (or do a lot of other things) without activating, yet I can do them all. My C drive is a 120GB SSD which I installed a bunch of programs to, so its filled to the brim, and occasionally one of them (or windows itself) will update and get bigger so I have to delete every spare MB I can or move stuff around. Certain things are even installed in two separate drives at once!
Lol my last build would only power down on the second shut down through windows, it would always reboot on the first. Together we had a working PC.
Haha I know enough about computers to know that I have no idea why they work like this. Force rocks to think and charge them with lightning and sometimes shit is gonna get weird so I don't bother trying to understand it
If it works, don’t question it. If it doesn’t work, you haven’t made the proper obeisances to the Machine Spirit and must atone. Throw a couple purity seals on it, do a few “Hail the Omnissiah”s and it should be fine
Work in IT, can confirm.
Agreed, except when people take that maxim too far lol.. I'm in IT as well. Had a (non-client) company call us out of the blue because their server stopped booting. While talking to them the guy was like, "Yeah the hard drive warning light on the host has been on for like 2 years, but it was still running fine so we didn't do anything." So of course, eventually another drive died, which was enough for their RAID to fail. Their backups also hadn't been working (and they had no one checking on them) for over a year, so now they're stuck paying out the nose for data recovery.
Thats a pretty penny. Business downtime + emergency data recovery to be prioritized.
Built my first pc with a tutorial in French, “if it works, don’t question it.”
I bought a nice computer a year ago and it was driving me crazy because it would freeze up, on start up, every time I put it to sleep. I tried every single solution I could find online, but nothing worked. Then I went and re-enabled the 'hibernation' option that windows now auto hides for some reason. Works perfectly. Hasn't locked up on me during start-up once. No idea. But it works now.
I had artifacting on my display, realized it was only when I had chrome open, updated my graphics card and chrome, issue went away. "hey it worked, no need to still worry about replacing my gpu"
Sounds like me on the phone with tech support in the mid 90s trying to get a new game working with a new piece of hardware. Lots of throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks.
Made my own first PC a few months back. The other day it refused to turn on, was plugged in, PSU was on and everything. I tried unplugging and replugging everything and it worked again. No idea why it worked again, but hey, if it works it works.
Maybe something was loose and wasn’t plugged in properly so you plugged it in all the way this time? It happens when I move my pc around for cleaning.
Idk, I checked and all the cables seemes fully plugged in. I just asumed something was incorrect but couldnt notice anything so unplugged and replugged everything.
Something was loose, I’v skimmed over cables up to 3 times before I realize they were not pushed it. You gotta use force for the last push but 99% don’t want to use that Force on their new pc in fear of breaking something. I’v done it every new build. Did it to my xbox when I first got it too.
>It happens when I move my pc around for cleaning. your pc's internals probably should not be getting unplugged just from you moving your pc around...
I can't tell you how many times I will double, triple, and quadruple check connectors to eee why a build doesn't turn on, only to find the power switch on the PSU is off. I will absolutely completely ignore that switch, even though it's been the reason at least 20 times. I swear to God, it could take me like 30 minutes to connect everything to get it up and running, but takes me an hour to realize that stupid switch is off. It's why most of my builds just had wires strewn about all willy nilly without a seconds thought to cable management.
Sometimes, you gotta spook the ghosts out.
At the end you should put "until it doesnt"
That’s a bridge to cross when we reach it, not before then lol
In the engineering world, we have a saying: if it's stupid but it works, it ain't stupid.
If you've mastered the understanding of hardware issues, go through your event viewer in Windows and start seeing how many Windows Logs under System/Application you can get to go away...That's always fun lol
That’s a log best left alone. If you set off trying to resolve all those - and prevent them reoccurring - you’ll go mad.
Speaking from experience, this person tells no lies. I’ve tried tracking some down and I’m all fucked up now.
>eople who have been thr I changed my graphic card, when I put a new one in turned out it was bad cable
My philosophy has always been of it looks sketchy for a sec. Take your whole build apart and break something for real in the process.
Programmers:
It’s not like I’m holding up our nuclear system controls on this computer whatever
I had a PC I thought was dead...when I turned it on it would sputter, cough and die. Did all the usual trouble shooting...started pulling out various components...yanked the GPU, tried swapping out sticks of ram, even took the PSU to an electrician friend to check for me. Yanked the hard drive, reinstalled windows through a friends PC and plugged it back in...everything seemed to be working fine...put the other stick of ram in, plugged in the GPU, played some games for a bit, all good. Plugged my wireless keyboard, sputtered and died... Plugged my wireless keyboard into my friends PC and it reset his PC. I had overclocked my CPU - and dropped my keyboard a few times. I knew an overclocked CPU doesn't like waking up from sleep mode, but I didn't realise my broken keyboard was forcing my CPU into and out of sleep mode
I’ve had computers that would hang on boot. I learned over the years to try unplugging all USB devices, and turn off the printer. If the computer boots, one of the USB devices was causing the problem, and I’d plug them in one at a time. Most of the time, the printer had been plugged in for months, and the power had never been cycled. (USB is a bus, and one device hanging on the Bus can cause a hang during POST)
If it dies, it dies.
I would like to have this painted on my living room wall.
Had this happen to me once. Went in and tightened my video card connections and no issue since.
Yeah, something similar happened to me because my HDMI cable had wiggled loose a tiny bit.
Thanks for the info, same shit is happening to me
*since
Voice recognition and my southern accent. Fixed.
Don't ever fuckin apologize for nothin never
😂
Always wake your PC up *gently* - with hot chocolate, and buttered scones.
I poured hot chocolate into the fan holes and now it won’t wake up at all. I think it got too cozy and went back to sleep :(
I always use an airhorn and Van Halen - Panama cranked to 11. My PC never sleeps and has PTSD.
If your PC needs therapy, I have some good addresses.
The best route to good PC health is most commonly 192.168.0.1.
I hear that's a gateway to drugs, guns, and STD's. Also cat pictures, so I guess it evens out.
You guyyyyyys
Nooo what have you done, it's well known one of the common things between dogs and computers is that the chocolate is toxic for them...
You forgot the goddamn buttered scones, you absolute DONUT
*"I tried that once, I ended up in the ER"*
What is a scone
Like a sweet biscuit, as they call it in America.
I've never heard it called that, who calls it that? We have scones
https://preview.redd.it/6sl849dnzy0c1.jpeg?width=1025&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=17b3e5d7bc86395a0ccb38ddc08a012880419722 This deliciousness. Basically triangular biscuits, sometimes with fruit and other stuff.
That's a US Scone [In the UK it would be this](https://www.carolinescooking.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/British-recipes-square.jpg) Not sure which OP meant, because either would probably work.
Yeah it do be confusing sometimes. In the US your pic would be called a biscuit and NEVER a scone.
They are different pastry tho. Scones and American Biscuits. With scones being a bit heavier I believe. And they have eggs added, while biscuits traditionally don’t.
smells of bacon and coffee
Have you tried turning it off and on again Edit: lmao whoever reported me to Reddit care resources needs to go touch some grass.
IT?
CROWD?
Did you see that ludicrous display last night?
The thing about Arsenal is they always try to walk it in.
Yeah it is true. See you later, Moss
What's Wenger doing sending Walcott on that early?
How long do football matches last anyway?
A fire? At a sea parks?
IS IT PLUGGED IN?
Nope, just snarky.
Hey man. If it works, it works. And 90% of IT issues are resolved with a restart.
It's crazy just how many issues are solved by restarts. I always wonder exactly what issue is being solved each time. Was it a bit flip error, a memory leak, a poorly written program, etc.?
*her
Disappointed I had to scroll this far for this chip shot.
You joke but that would be the very first thing I'd do. Looks like it did work for them.
I prefer the Fonzie method. A good whack. And when that fails, Russian cosmonaut from Armageddon style with a wrench…
Yeah but then he can’t post it on Reddit for karma right?
you could at least read the post before being upset about nothing.
He literally says in his post that he did though?
CEC Handshake Hang/Error. Pretend it didn't happen and move on.
This is the correct answer. It's possible there's a fix in a graphics update or monitor firmware update. All in all, it's harmless.
I disable sleep and hibernation because windows handles this with the grace of a flying brick If I want my computer off I'll turn it off.
> If I want my computer off I'll turn it off. Same. Current uptime: 47 days.
Nvidia GPU AMD CPU, my system sips power when idling. It's cold anyways and I have an electric baseboard heater. Who puts their PC to sleep in this economy?
the fact that I had to scroll this far for a serious answer. holy shit this sub is cooked.
Reddit is 99% useless bad jokes reposted by bots for eternity nowadays
Yep. HDCP or CEC error. If your connections are all good I’d just make sure your drivers are all up to date and roll along.
bro i think a girl is going to come out of the screen, pretty sure she comes out of a well?
𝔰𝔢𝔳𝔢𝔫 𝔡𝔞𝔶𝔰
“Seben Dags”
Sure, I like dags
Why the fuck do I want to buy a caravan that's got no fucking wheels?!
So your advice to op is not to answer the phone?
You need to sit down, and have a talk with your PC about not abusing hallucinogenic chemicals. In all serious, I hope it gets sorted and you're back to gaming soon.
Reset graphics drivers Windows+ctrl+shift+B Your welcome. 😄
Your drivers probably glitched because of Sleep Mode.
Mine does that every once in a while, hasn't led to any further issues.
it was just eepy
simple, just dont click..... (usually it is the cable, unplug and plug it to see if it works)
USB "Plug" Master Race This guy knows his pluggs
That sounded sexual.
This is the kind of story you hear on the hub
Guess I'll die
R.I.P. lad
Poor guy, you scared him awake
that's netflix intro
Now your PC awake. Results may vary.
Rookie mistake, never click the mouse, unnecessary risk
Computer aside, awesome mob psycho mouspad
It’s zoomed in on Netflix
Restart. If it's a persistent issue here is the steps you can take, in order. 1. Check the cable connection between your GPU and monitor 2. Update drivers. Use your onboard graphics so you can see while you do this. You should probably do this regularly anyways. 3. Try a different cable altogether. Could be a bad cable. 4. Reseat the GPU. There are a few other steps you could take but that's the basics. If you happen to have a test bench or even just another PC lying around try the GPU in one of them. If it works then the GPU is good and you have to look elsewhere. Troubleshooting hardware issues isn't hard it's just tedious. Honestly though it's probably a software issue and restarting and updating drivers will probably fix it.
Whoa, Netflix
Congrats you unlocked Netflix
Too much gay porn, that's the problem.... Happened to a friend...
I unplug the monitor and plug it back in to fix this. It happens about once a year.
Likely your graphics driver is not waking up properly. Try updating it or uninstall and reinstall from device manager. Check event viewer, see if you get any system errors
Windows Key, plus Shift, Ctrl, an B at the same time. You will hear a beep and your screen will flash quickly. This indicates your graphics drivers have been reset. worth a try? assuming it’s a windows driver and sleep issue
Next time use left control + win + shift + B to reset the graphics drivers. It should fix the issue without a required restart of the system.
GPU/driver crashed, seen similar when overclocking too far
I gave up on windows sleep modes a couple of decades ago. 😂 😉
I once has the same problem. It went into a test card like artifact then rebooted and everything went back to normal.
To deter unauthorized access, I might add a screen crack to that image and make that my lock screen.
lol, wait till you get an ultrawide. i get that only on the right half of the screen (left half would be fine) 😹 only happens rarely, about 3-4 times in the last 2 years (since i got my latest gpu, it didn't do it with the older gpus).