Troubleshooting and Tech Support

[kkck]

Question: when Chrome is being a douche is your internet usually working? No matter what site you go to, you keep being sent back to Google's main page? Or is it for certain sites or random moment?

Well, yes, otherwise I wouldn't be using chrome. Well, it starts the second I open chrome. Before I even get to type in a web page (and my default is blank) it sends me to google.com. Then it continually keeps sending it to google.com indefinitely. It is not just refreshing either otherwise I wouldn't end up there. Whatever I type in does not matter as the very next second it goes back to google. Its like someone is continually typing in google.com and pressing enter each second.

[M3J]

Quoting from one of the users of Mozilla support forum, not tested.

Thanks, but I uninstalled it. Can't find the dropdown arrow, probably because I customized the toolbars to my suiting.

Well, yes, otherwise I wouldn't be using chrome. Well, it starts the second I open chrome. Before I even get to type in a web page (and my default is blank) it sends me to google.com. Then it continually keeps sending it to google.com indefinitely. It is not just refreshing either otherwise I wouldn't end up there. Whatever I type in does not matter as the very next second it goes back to google. Its like someone is continually typing in google.com and pressing enter each second.

It happens no matter what key you press?

[kkck]

Yeah, pressing keys does nothing whatsoever for or against this. Even if I do type in an address or press a button it just sends me back to google's main page. The worst part is that my problem does not seem to appear online at all.

[M3J]

Very weird. I thought it could be some kind of problem where keyboard acts as if CTRL is pressed down, like CTRL+H or home or something. Dunno.


Did you try booting your computer in Safe mOde?

[kkck]

I haven't tried that but I think I fixed the problem for now at least. Uninstalling and installing the browser worked and I am using it right now. Hopefully it won't come back.

---------- Post added February 26, 2013 at 08:04 AM ---------- Previous post was February 22, 2013 at 09:30 PM ----------

Ok, I think I found the culprits here. It seems that the proceeses which spike in ram at random are perfmon.exe and svchost.exe. svchost is consistently higher than perfmon but I think perfmon is the one responsible for the spikes.... They are both necessary for windows 7 to run though, not sure where to go from here.

[M3J]

Basically, I give up and will take my laptop to computer repair shop because this headache isn't worth it.

[Miyagi]

Ok, I think I found the culprits here. It seems that the proceeses which spike in ram at random are perfmon.exe and svchost.exe. svchost is consistently higher than perfmon but I think perfmon is the one responsible for the spikes.... They are both necessary for windows 7 to run though, not sure where to go from here.

I don't think perfmon has anything to do with it, it isn't even active under normal circumstances. svchost is a complicated case though, as its name suggests it's a host process for many services and there may be a multitude of reasons why svchost has high CPU usage. I ran into this page when I googled for the possible reasons, Firefox plugin container and Windows Defender come to mind as potential suspects.

Basically, I give up and will take my laptop to computer repair shop because this headache isn't worth it.

Hope they can find a solution to the overheating problem.

[M3J]

They should fix the rebooting problem first and then focus on the overheating. Cuz like, rebooting is getting annoying and wastes time. Cuz yanno.

---------- Post added March 03, 2013 at 08:15 PM ---------- Previous post was February 26, 2013 at 10:57 AM ----------

According to the repair guy, the video card was the problem.

Which I already knew.

so the motherboard needs to be replaced.

Which I did not know.


So basically, fuck life.

[Doraku]

So I've been having weird problems with my new laptop. I have two laptops, first one is my old laptop, and the newest one is a 15" laptop. The problem is that this new laptop is having a problem when its connected to the wireless internet. I feel somehow the connection is getting slower, moreover I often disconnected with the WiFi when I'm using this new laptop. I thought the problem was on my internet connection, but I used my old laptop (which is smaller in size, around 11") and the internet is totally fine. I'm using same browsers, Google Chrome, on both laptops.

Any idea what went wrong with my new laptop? A friend of mine told me that I should re-install the driver for the WiFi but I'm not sure.

[Miyagi]

I agree with your friend, try installing the latest drivers for your Wi-Fi card.

[Josef K.]

Does anyone know what I did wrong when I was setting up my router? I mean I connected all the hardware, but it seems I screwed up with the software. It seems I did not configure it correctly, and now I do not have wireless internet and can not even open the software router page?