If you're mentioned, it's because I think ya might need to know. If TLDR, skip to the bottom.
@ChronoNomad @Cyberdevil @LexaHergon @littlemisfortune @TomFulp @Troisnyx
@TomFulp, just letting you know I'm not disappearing. Been having computer issues a while and just not really talking about it; thought I had them fixed. Evidently not. Should be permanently fixed now. If not, time for a new PC ig, lol.
@Troisnyx, regarding that rap, depending on how much time we have to deal with it, I might have to pass the text file of what I have so far off to someone. I messaged @Cyberdevil about collabing on it with me a bit since the last guy bailed, but then my computer crashed, like, super dead, BSOD, and I haven't even gotten to my mailbox. Also, will have to reinstall literally everything including Discord.
So, yeah. My PC is officially a zombie.
It had been crashing for a while, progressively worse, but it finally corrupted a system file. Could've been me testing out a dll on a problem file that was throwing errors but it's worth noting the problem dll was replaced and the machine was doing just fine for a day or two until I started editing a video in VideoPad of all programs; PC powered off like usual, and then suddenly I get the dreaded BSOD.
If I had to recommend something personally, it's not downloading dlls off the internet, even if I don't think that's what caused the problem directly. Spent 24 hours fixing it, including a 12 hour nap, and the other half bitching because evidently my period was coming on.
Yeah, TLDR, TMI -- I know. You could'a skipped tho.
I cried a little because c000007b Bad Image winsrv errors are a bitch to fix, and I've been dicking around with computers my whole life.
I was able to back up my files with Lazesoft's repair suite and turned a USB into a Win 7 Ultimate emergency boot drive; you can do this in command prompt but I was having issues getting the iso to behave, so I used Win CD/USB whatever wizard. Don't try searching that one. I may just do a tutorial because it was kind of a pain in the ass, and I see a ton of unanswered questions online.
Just to be sure whether I had to go all Hitler's final solution and reinstall Windows or not, I tried it again after running the fancy little wizard, but even with repairing registry, completely repairing the system32 folder to factory, all the other jazz, I was still getting a BSOD. Not sure what the hell was going on there, since usually Bad Image has something to do with screwing with system32. I have a sneaking suspicion my HDD is failing. Everything else just about has been replaced.
I eventually got it to start, but then every application was throwing errors and crashing immediately, so I just copied all my program files, documents, etc. over to my external drive, then reinstalled Windows from USB. Lazesoft's utility pulled up the serial that for some reason the actual Microsoft site wouldn't accept, and I wrote it down, and it was kinda just a situation of paste and pray. So far, no issues, but I was really, really wigged out that the Microsoft site kept throwing an error on what I know is a genuine serial, hoarding isos.
Still don't know if it's going to randomly try to de-authenticate and reject my serial, which came with the computer, and it would have been way nicer if they just sent a disc out with their PCs these days, like they used to with floppies in the 90's but nooooo.
So yeah, I'm gonna be in limited state for a while.
I still have all my programs and documents, but I'll be reinstalling everything piece by piece. Probably will be out of commission for a week.
I still need to install the drivers for my wifi card, for Christ's sake. I'm sitting here writing this, internetting off a dongle I had to pop a disc for. Thank God I bought this thing for mom an hour ago or I'd be wasting my life popping drivers onto USB to revive this piece of crap.
Let it be a lesson, kiddos, have a bootable PE for when shit hits the fan and keep them Windows discs handy. And have system restore points. But mostly just the first part.
Also, totally call me if you have computer problems. I somewhat know what I'm doing.
ultraemo
It happens, you'll work so hard on your content and you seem to forget your computer crashes and that's it. It happens to me also, it scares me. Thankfully the hardware I need are cheap now a days. I decided to resort getting two laptops in my bedroom because just in case one burns out, I wouldn't look so dumb and desperate running to the store to get another one. It pays off in the long run and it helps me save myself the strength to use pushing away those sales people who offer me to charge extra for add-ons services I don't really need. I barely use the other laptop unless I really have too. It's a 32-bit CPU laptop also.
ADR3-N
Hey man, don't feel too bad. Buying a spare laptop is at least less embarrassing than using your ex-girlfriend's laptop she sort of kind of probably wants back lmao. Me, I'm really paranoid this new Seagate drive is gonna crap out on me. I shunted all my files off on it last minute into a single folder, hahah.