Questions tagged [troubleshooting]
DO NOT USE. Burnination [status-planned] (go to tag info / Meta for details) Troubleshooting is a form of problem solving that uses logical, systematic steps to solve the problem.
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Computer turns off unexpectedly
My computer turns itself off unexpectedly after some time of use.
It appears that this might be temperature related, but not for sure.
I installed 2 tools that monitor temperature: SpeedFan and CPU ...
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Error: Couldn't update to Windows 8.1 preview. How to troubleshoot?
Trying to upgrade my PC, the process goes forward but in some point, it revers back to Windows 8.0.
How can I troubleshoot the problem?
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Alternating low and high ping times on ADSL line
I have an ADSL connection at home. Pings times are usually acceptable right after rebooting the modem, between 15 and 60ms to google.com. A few minutes later they go up to 900ms or even higher up to 3 ...
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how to troubleshoot wireguard connection problems?
I am trying to configure a VPN server with WireGuard in order to have access to my local network when I am outside home.
I configured a raspberry pi to be the Wireguard 'server' and I have a laptop ...
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How do I troubleshoot problems that occur during boot?
In the case that my computer would have issues with booting, what steps can I take to troubleshoot it?
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Can computer crashes and reboots be caused by weak power supply?
Recently I replaced the videocard in my PC for a newer, faster one. All games work perfectly but I get random system crashes and reboots. This happens even when the system is almost idle (browsing, ...
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Any advice on what to do when getting a cryptic blue screen in windows?
What are some steps that you usually take? Are there any good ways of finding out what they mean etc.?
For example I have gotten these ones where it pretty much only says "IRQ less or equal to" (or ...
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Why are Microsoft based programs unable to resolve host names?
When I go to Google by IP I get:
When I go to Google by domain name I get:
This is confirmed by Windows Live Messenger:
However, Firefox just works fine:
When I do a DNS lookup I get this result:
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Why can I hear the cursor flashing on my screen through my headphones?
As well as just about everything else that changes on the screen, from loading a webpage, scrolling a window, typing, moving the mouse around, etc.? I have the headphones on, and I can hear it all. ...
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Where to find Ubuntu One logs
Ubuntu one does not synchronize files since I upgraded from 9.10 to 10.04. The preferences panel keeps showing "Synchronization in progress...", but files are not downloaded from the repository. It ...
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Iperf for Windows - where to find newer versions?
I have just noticed that in openSuse I have iperf version 3.5, where as on Windows I cannot find anything newer then 3.1.3, which dates from June 2016!
I still assume that iperf is the most ...
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Troubleshooting an mysteriously unstable machine
I have a machine with a Core i7 CPU, 12 GiB of memory, 4 hard drives and a graphics card/sound card (both add-in PCI-E). This machine is somehow unstable, and I'm wondering how to troubleshoot ...
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How do I troubleshoot computer dumps?
Once I have a dump of a computer crash/freeze, what are some tools and steps to take in order to troubleshoot crash based off of the dump itself?
I am looking for tools to isolate what processes or ...
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Why are my Windows 7 updates continuously failing?
I'm an advanced level user here with an odd issue. I have two Windows Updates that are failing to install, every single time. I'm getting a mysterious "Code 1" error on both updates, an error for ...
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100% Finder CPU usage
Randomly, I wasn't doing anything specific — my system starts getting sluggish. I check the activity viewer — wow, Finder is at 150% CPU!
This is what I have tried so far:
Trashing com.apple.finder....
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Spikes of 99% disk activity in Windows 8 Task Manager [duplicate]
For some reason Windows 8's Task Manager reports spikes of 99% disk activity for hours at a time. Looking at the entries in that column, however, data doesn't seem to be getting written any more ...
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Why is my router not routing?
Starting a week and half ago my router stopped working with my cable modem. I went to sleep with it working and woke up with it not. I swapped in another router and am still having issues; I was ...
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How can I completely disable tablet functions in Windows 7?
I'm the owner of an HP Pavillion tx2120us tablet PC, which has a known problem of making the cursor jump to the lower right corner of the screen.
I've narrowed the problem down to the pen tablet ...
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PC freezes after repeated clicking noises
I have an oldish PC (Athlon XP 2200, WinXP). Every time I switch it on, I hear a loud "click" first of all, and when it is shut down, again a click is the last sound I hear.
Lately it started to ...
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Can a grounding problem damage computers immediately?
Can a grounding problem damage computers immediately ?
I have transferred my office. New office did not have grounding. I tried to boot 4 computers.
Two of them booted. One of them hung while ...
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Windows XP doesn't actually recursively change attributes
This should probably go into the question about Windows Annoyances, but can anyone explain why this happens, and how to fix it?
I right-click on a folder, select properties, and uncheck the Read-only....
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"Show hidden files" option is not working
OK, I know this is the very basic thing that goes with Windows, but I am asking it here in search of answer.
I put my pendrive and it autoruns. This changed the show hidden files option off, I mean I ...
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Creating an answer file for “WindowsUpdateDiagnostic.diagcab” in Eclipse WTP
I am attempting to script the install of the WindowsUpdateDiagnostic.diagcab sourced here.
msdt.exe /cab "%~dp0WindowsUpdateDiagnostic.diagcab" -af "%~dp0stillneeded.xml"
Unfortunately, attempts at ...
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Troubleshooting a router, stops responding periodically (D-Link Xtreme N Gigabit)
I have a D-Link Xtreme N Gigabit Router (http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=530), which has worked fine for the past year since I bought it. I recently moved and changed internet providers. Now, once ...
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Ext3 drive will not mount after power failure; how to recover files?
After a recent power failure which caused my linux box (Ubuntu 8.10) to rapidly poweroff twice from a normal running state, I have a drive that will not mount.
UPDATE: The drive will sometimes mount,...
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Something is using port 80 and I can't figure out what [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to find exe listening on port?
What is using port 80?
I need to setup a local webserver that I made and bind it to 127.0.0.1:80. However, I can't seem to figure out what'...
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Stuck in Windows "safe mode". What can I do?
My girlfriend have a laptop running Windows XP – or, well, it used to run Windows XP. Right now it does nothing at all. When booting the machine, it gets past the Windows splash screen fine, and the ...
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What to do when machine fails a Prime95 stress test?
In an effort to diagnose the cause of random resets and freezes I have been running a series of stress tests on my two year old computer. Thus far the machine has passed nine hours of the Prime95 ...
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Why does one person downloading kill the internet for the rest of the house?
We have 25 megs on the downstream and 2 megs on the upstream. When doing a speed test without anyone downloading (from Usenet, for example), we get the full download and upload.
However, if one ...
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What are the causes of BIOS corruption? Can one tell the cause of corruption?
I'm sure it is a case of bad BIOS. What I'm not sure of is how did the BIOS get corrupted.
What causes BIOS failure in common scenarios? It was a Pentium 4 from 2004. Does age have to do anything ...
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