Computer Anxiety

[CoronaBlue]

Does anyone else get really anxious when they think something might be wrong with their computer?

 

Any time mine makes a strange noise (coil whine) I start freaking out and investigating all possible causes. Right now my SSD seems to be slowing down, and the anxiety from it is actually giving me a headache.

 

So does anyone else get this way when their custom system might not be performing as expected, or am I just a crazy person?  :blink:

[Juganog]

After making a pc the first power on always scares me i expect it to explode in my face but it never does... as for noises not really but i always freak out about temps even when it isnt that high

[Enderman]

Yeah I get worried when my PC has a problem too, such as when I come home and for some reason it is off because of some problem.

You just need to relax and get comfortable with your machine

[OriginalPromise]

[Just The Tips]

I just go "eh, fuck it, if it breaks it breaks, i cant fix that"

btw how old is your ssd? heavy writing onto the disk wears it out over time. or do you have an 840 evo? they're notorious for slowing down after a while

[Jade]

I get a little bit afraid when my desktop goes offline; it's on 99% of the time and going offline tells me three possible things: Something crashed/broke in my desktop, internet went down, or power's out. Two of which are scary.

[Imabigmac]

Sometimes. Last night I left my computer idle for a few hours came back and the text was all derped up, I was "Okay what died now"... Restarted and well fixed. Although I wasn't too worried. 

 

I get particularly anxious when playing games and they start artifacting - given my video card's power and ram chips aren't necessarily cooled properly.   

[CoronaBlue]

I think the thing that causes me to freak out so much is the knowledge that I can't replace anything if it breaks. Being in college sucks hard, and without my computer I'm back to being stuck on a console for my gaming needs.

[Sushicat89]

Yea I always get pretty obsessive about silly things like my video cards falling from their PCIE slots so I check the screws like everyday, weird habit I guess. There's also my weird obsession of only playing games that's on my SSD, I'd uninstall a game just to make space for another one while my  hard drive still has 500GB of free space. I also always try to reach the maximum overclocking profiles my system is capable of being  afraid of not using my machine to its full potential, resulting on countless blue screens, crashes

[Thebman712]

i get scared when it crashes or something like that, dreading that it may not work again

[CoronaBlue]

I just go "eh, fuck it, if it breaks it breaks, i cant fix that"

btw how old is your ssd? heavy writing onto the disk wears it out over time. or do you have an 840 evo? they're notorious for slowing down after a while

I do have an 840 EVO! It isn't even a year old yet.

[Fgtfv567]

When GFE or a GPU driver install or something caused all my games to not work... luckily a reboot fixed it

and then there's that time my PC would not start up.. it resolved itself.. maybe it was because I was playing planetside 2 on maxed out settings with a GTX 660....

[Charger]

I have been using and fixing my family's computers since 1995 my computer could be smoking and I wouldn' care all that much it would just annoy me

[Sors]

Not only with the PC, I get worried if i hear a strange noise in my car, on my fridge, when hearing some weird cracking in my earphones that turn out to be just a bad MP3..

 

Pretty much everything makes me worry.

[thekeemo]

I do have an 840 EVO! It isn't even a year old yet.

Back it up and update the firmware. They fixed the bug

[Polyvalent]

If I can boot up my PC and play a game honestly it doesn't bother me.   I'll make note of small problems or noises but thats about it.  I've never been a stickler for noise, I played a 360 as a main gaming source for years and that thing was quite loud.

[Syntaxvgm]

No I always feel in control. I've never had a problem I've had to reach out for beside my alienware craptop, which I ended up figuring out. 

[shadowblitz3]

I freak out at first but then I always manage to figure out a way to fix them. 

[-ism]

Only when it is hardware related I get irritated. I really don't want to RMA I just want my things to work the first time. 

[mr moose]

Nup, my car on the other hand causes me massive anxiety.

[Lays]

After I watercooled my $4000 PC, I couldn't sleep for like 2 weeks, only in small spurts.

 

Anytime I heard a weird noise I thought it was a leak, or the pump dying. LOL

[killcomic]

Yeah, because my PC is the only thing which is MINE, not the kids, not the wife. MINE!

So yeah, I freak out when shit goes wrong, but for some reason I have no problem overclocking it.

[Yoinkerman]

Nope not even a little bit. If something acts up I fix it or wait for it to die then fix it.

Edit: my wife goes bananas though and if anything so much as hiccups she thinks everything is fried, especially if the Internet drops out on the isps end for any reason.

[kerberos]

My first custom watercooled pc, I stayed all night and didn't sleep while I was testing my loop! dunno why I just sat there watching it run :lol:

[NARAKU_KAT]

I wanted to kill myself after i opened my laptop and broke some plastic things, also it got pretty scratched so i feel bad anytime i use it, like now :'(