More PC trouble.

 

It looks like my PC has decided to play hell with me once again. It’s been holding back on the freezing enough for me to use it generally and play Final Fantasy IX through an Emulator. However, whenever I try to produce the video I recorded in Camtasia, it' locks up EVERY SINGLE TIME. I’ve tried hundreds of times since Saturday night and there’s been no change. I was ready to blame it on the program, but then I extracted the raw video file and tried to convert it with PowerDirector. I had exactly the same problem. As I am typing this I am once again trying to produce the video in Camtasia, this time not in 1080 hd though. This time I am trying the programs YouTube preset which will give a quality of 480. The good news is it’s not frozen yet (obviously if I'm still typing this), if it doesn’t freeze at all then I will have to experiment with different resolutions. It may turn out that I'll have to upload my future videos at 720p, or maybe even just 480. The quality would be a million times worse, but at least i’d get them produced and uploaded without my damn PC locking up every three seconds.

**update**

I’ve just checked the progress and it was over 84%. Normally it wouldn’t even get to 50 without locking up. This is a good sign (though I ain’t gonna hold my breath just yet. It’s still not finished and there’s ….

**update**

well, it looks like it finished converting just as I was typing that. Just seems like my PC gets the arse whenever I try and produce video at 1080p (which it shouldn’t, considering my spec. There’s still a serious problem.

The Most Useless Blog Post I’ve Ever Written

 

Well, this is one of them few times when I write a post without actually having anything in particular to say. For those of you who don’t know, it was my Birthday on Sunday. Wasn’t all that great tbh. I turned 24 and spent most of the day feeling pretty ill. Ah well, such is life, eh?

Also, I can’t remember if I’ve mentioned before, but my PC (the Powerhouse one I have the specs of on my Geeks profile) has the annoying habit of locking up randomly for no apparent reason. I’ve spent nearly a year and a half (almost the entire time I've had it) attempting to sort it out with the store I purchased it from, but have got no further today than I was in the first place. The store’s head office ended up going bust or something, meaning they lost many of their connections, including their supplier. I’ve recently found out this means that the store can’t send my motherboard (the prime suspect in my PC freezing issue) back to Asus as they would have to go through the supplier which they no longer have connections to. That point’s kinda irrelevant anyway considering we got nowhere after the board was sent through the supplier before, so we were intending on sending it direct to Asus. Apparently this all means that I have to email Asus myself with the board’s serial number and then post it to them. The only issue I have with this is while I was rebuilding it myself when I FINALLY got the board back the first time, I accidentally snapped one of the clips on one of the RAM sockets. I wouldn’t be majorly surprised if this resulted in them saying “we can’t do anything for you because the board is damaged” which would mean I’d have completely wasted my time. I HAVE, however, got my old PC (a little Dell Optiplex  which I modded to have 1gb of Ram plus a DVD writer) back from my girl’s mother after selling it to her a while back, so I wouldn’t be entirely without a PC if i were to send this one off. Which I MAY do eventually, when I feel up to it.

In other news, it’s March now, and O2 are supposed to be launching a home phone service this month, meaning I could save money with a package deal and leave TalkTalk behind for good. Can’t remember the exact date, but I certainly know I can’t wait (though have to top up my mobile at some point VERY soon to maintain my Broadband discount, otherwise home phone with them will be the last thing on my mind when I get disconnected cause I can’t afford the bill).

That’s all I can think of for the time being, but that should be plenty for you to sink your eyes into until I can be bothered to write another post. Thanks for actually taking the time to read my rants. I don’t know how you manage it, I even bore myself sometimes.