Posts by Kenneth Cruz67

Alexander Thompson said:BB, who's actually blocking access from an American IP address to the site you're trying to hit? Is it your ISP or just the website itself?

It’s definitely my internet provider. For a little while there, I just couldn't get through to almost anything—Sputnik, TASS, RT, VKontakte, you name it. It seemed like every single site with a Russian domain was hit; everywhere I turned, I'd just get that message saying, "Sorry, this page isn't available in the US."

cosmicgull52 said:What a guy. 🙏

Hey there, Jack Cook7, I was just wondering, if you don't mind me asking, what kind of IP address are you actually using to post from? 🤔

Ashley Newman67 said:Don't talk nonsense. Short and sweet.

And then there’s this one, with a mere 218 posts. I suppose that’s just a very basic, low-level way to exist on a forum like this.🤣

Honestly, Anderlon, maybe you should consider banning anyone with fewer than 1,000 posts from posting here. Perhaps you could just set up a little sandbox area where they can all play together? I feel like that might actually help eliminate all those clones and clones of clones at the same time!

Casey Bennett said:Hmm, I’m currently navigating the pirate waters without any VPN. Once they actually start handing out penalties, then I might consider getting my supplies in order. 😁
Look, for heaven's sake, just read what I wrote above. No VPN, no spoofed IP—just pure joy in your soul and an endless stream of Russians and Chinese! And honestly, some even weirder characters too. Ahhh... 🎉
There's even VOD available!
Just tell them I sent you. 😁

I suppose the woke millennials are probably going to start demanding you get kicked off moderator duty now, simply because they think you're spreading Russian propaganda. Honestly, you might actually be even more intense than Maria Zakharova! 🤣

Casey Bennett said:So, have you heard about this whole IPTV thing?* Honestly, you don't need any of it. 😉
News from the entire region and everywhere else—including Russia, naturally. Totally objective, obviously!!1! 😉

*I'm also a moderator for the AV tech section 😁

Getting news should be easy. I mean, everyone over there follows the same traditions anyway. Old-school conservatives like us would probably call this a win-win situation 🤣

Personally, I just can't help feeling a bit frustrated that downloading pirated content, books, audiobooks, or adult films is so incredibly slow when I'm using a VPN 😬

Casey Bennett said:Hey bluecyclist64, it looks like both you and cosmicgull52 really need to go catch some Pokémon. Or maybe just take a break from them? I can't tell if you're burnt out from playing too much or if your lives are just lacking a bit of Pokémon energy.

It’s honestly fascinating how people will label one side as paid propaganda with censored content while claiming the other side is pure truth.
But let's be real: the other side is just as much about paid propaganda and censorship as the first. Everyone is essentially cut from the same cloth, whether you want to believe it or not. Though, if you guys are still obsessed with Pokémon, this argument at least feels a little more grounded and relatable.

And according to cosmicgull52, you can only find uncensored, totally "authentic" news coming out of Russia by watching Mexican channels? How does that even work? How on earth is that possible? 🤷
I mean, since Mexicans are famously neutral, it’s no wonder they’d allow uncensored Russian and Ukrainian perspectives. Wait, hold on...

Oh, please. Don't drag me into this.

Honestly, I feel like maybe Modesty should probably pick up a few more basics regarding tech, because I guess you really ought to know what an IP address actually does or how a VPN works if you're going to be handling informatics! 🤣

Or perhaps? 🤔

I guess I have to ask, what on earth happened with those Mexican channels you've been watching lately? It feels like they've completely taken over!

Jack Alvarez said:Hey everyone, first off, please forgive my title because I honestly wasn't quite sure how else to phrase it.
So, I'm dealing with an older PC that was working perfectly fine this past Sunday. As far as I can tell, the components date back to around 2018 (it's running an i7 4700, a GTX 1080, and some kind of Gigabyte motherboard). Today, however, when I hit the power button, the fan LEDs light up for maybe a second or two and the fans spin up, but then everything just shuts down. Then, after about five seconds, the exact same thing happens all over again in a loop until I finally pull the plug. I know there are probably a million different things that could be causing this, but what would you guys guess is the most likely culprit? Thanks!

That sounds like a classic issue you see with those Gigabyte boards. It starts to spin up for a moment, goes *vroom vroom vroom*, and then—bam—total silence.

I'd suggest unplugging it from the wall first. Pull out the CMOS battery and take out the RAM. Once that's done, hit the power button and hold it down for at least ten seconds to drain any residual charge. Then, pop the battery back in, put in just one stick of memory, plug it back in, and try to boot. If it kicks on, shut it down and then try adding the rest of the memory. If that doesn't work, just repeat the whole process but try the sticks in a different order. It’s mostly a bit of a lottery, I guess, but usually, it'll eventually catch and start working normally again.

Betty Fowler said:Anyone who disagrees with me is clearly a foreign agent. 😢
No one besides Mexicans will let me read Russian propaganda. 😢
I honor the words and deeds of President Zoran Milanović. 😢
Ukrainians are killing Russian children. 😢
Putin was backed into a corner and had to strike. 😢

There, I've translated it. Now beat it.

And why on earth would I do that? 🤔

I mean, who do you think you are, trying to dictate anything to me? Honestly, I'm not even a little bit intimidated by you; the absolute most you can manage is spitting venom all over this forum. You really are quite powerless, aren't you?

I’ve been noticing that about 9 out of 10 posts supporting Ukraine seem to originate from UK and USA IP addresses. Honestly, I think this kind of overwhelming support is often just mindless noise, likely manufactured through the propaganda efforts of foreign intelligence agencies. We find ourselves living in a society that feels quite strictly censored, where we're basically blocked from accessing any Russian news sources at all. It’s actually a bit sad that in your country, you can't even access this specific channel, this website, or these particular news outlets. I suppose the only way someone can truly start seeing a broader picture of the battlefield—and understanding the actual causes and consequences of this war—is by using a VPN and an IP address from somewhere like Mexico. It sounds absurd, I know, but there seems to be more freedom of information in a place like Mexico than in a country within the EU. If you want to get a sense of how the average American feels, I guess you can best see it reflected in the words and actions of President Zoran Milanović. This isn't our war, after all. The Russians aren't solely to blame for this conflict, nor are the Ukrainians some sort of innocent victims; the West is deeply entangled in this and shares plenty of the blame.

As for the Anderlon forum, I suspect it's purely a business venture. It seems to me that it's just a matter of how much money is being thrown around to keep the music playing. They’ve really driven a wedge into the media landscape here. There are embassies paying for influence, and I wonder why anyone would risk all that just to defend the free speech of someone like bluecyclist64? At the end of the day, money talks. 🤔

If he actually cared about the quality of this forum, he probably would have invested in a faster, more stable server or updated us to a much newer version of the software a long time ago.

If all else fails, I suppose one could always try flashing some kind of custom ROM or perhaps an entirely different alternative operating system onto it. 🤷

Actually, maybe it might even be enough to just reflashthe device with a completely clean, stock ROM 🤔

Honestly, screw Google 😬

Well, you see, DDR3 and DDR4 are two completely different beasts altogether, so I guess it just wouldn't work.

I honestly don't think you'll run into a Blue Screen of Death just because of voltage issues. Usually, if there's a sudden drop or spike like that, the whole system just shuts down instantly without warning. Plus, I suspect you'd probably see an "unexpected power failure" error, maybe something like code 1006, tucked away in your Event Viewer logs if that were actually the case.

wearymason4 said:When my PC starts acting up, it’s usually not even a software thing. Most of the headaches I've dealt with have been straight-up hardware issues or bad connections—software glitches or OS bugs are actually pretty rare for me. 🤔

It seems like you haven't spent much time working with ATI/AMD products, I suppose! 😁

Alexander Diaz4 said:Look, if I were in his shoes, I’d just wipe the whole thing and pull the trigger on a fresh Windows install. If the issue stays gone after that, there’s a massive chance the culprit was just some messy drivers or—God knows what else—some random junk software (because honestly, who knows what kind of bloat is sitting on that machine right now?). But, if the problem keeps popping up, I'd run a full benchmark and stress test on every single component first, then decide my next move based on those results.

But hey, that's just my two cents...

Ideally, if he understands how PCs work even a little bit—and actually knows his way around some Troubleshooting—he should crack open Task Manager to see if anything looks sketchy... you know, checking out the startup programs, active processes, registry entries, and all that good stuff.

I have a feeling that the 22H2 update might turn out to be a bit of a disaster, honestly. It seems like the timing is just perfectly unfortunate, especially if someone has already gone ahead and installed it.

restlessdrifter4 said:Please feel free to reach out if anyone else has any suggestions. 🙄
I actually gave a close friend of mine—a top-tier expert in the field—a call personally, but he hasn't gotten back to me just yet. 😁

It seems like everyone is jumping straight to hardware issues! Good grief, 🤦

Maybe you could take a quick look at the System and Event Viewer logs? It might be worth finding a crash log and then opening it up with a Microsoft diagnostic tool to see exactly what kind of error is occurring and why the system is failing. If you encountered a Blue Screen, there is almost certainly a crash log waiting for you; I mean, computers don't usually just shut down out of nowhere without leaving a trace.

And honestly, I would just completely ignore that guy mentioning WD-40. Electronics aren't something you can fix with a hammer and brute force.

The resident seems to have become quite upset, I suppose 😬

Sandra Fowler said:I was being perfectly polite when I asked for assistance, yet you handed me an impossible solution and then called me a crybaby—and now somehow *I'm* the one being rude?!

And for the record, I never "set it" to install with a Microsoft account... that option only popped up after I got stuck at this specific step. I'm certainly not the only one dealing with this, either—I found a massive amount of people online having the exact same issue, only the fixes they suggested didn't work for my machine.

I ended up plugging directly into the modem with an Ethernet cable, the installation finished, and the whole problem vanished. Just thought I'd share that, in case you run into someone else with this issue... maybe you could offer them a real tip before calling them a crybaby.

Well, you did say you were on the verge of tears yourself, so if that isn't being a bit of a crybaby or a total drama queen, I don't know what is! 🕺

I honestly have no clue how you went about the installation, but the skip button is a pretty standard option, you know?

Sandra Fowler said:It’s not as if it ever crossed my mind to look for a "skip internet connection" button—mostly because there wasn't one to begin with... 🙄

I have no issue admitting when I'm stumped or when I don't know something—I can be quite clueless about certain tech stuff sometimes—but at least I don't pretend to be an expert when I clearly am not.

It’s just a bit disheartening when you encounter someone who is clearly reaching out for a helping hand, yet they manage to be so incredibly rude about it. I guess it makes it much harder to want to step up and assist, doesn't it?

I guess you might be running into a bit of a snag because you mentioned earlier that you were setting it up using a Microsoft account. If that's the case, you should probably just turn that option off and set up a local account instead. I think if you go that route, it might actually let you skip the whole network installation step entirely!

Once you've finished installing everything, logging in with your Microsoft account is actually quite a breeze, though I guess I can't help but wonder who would truly find that specific step necessary.

Sandra Fowler said:Hello everyone,

Please, help me any way you can... I am honestly on the verge of tears and feeling like just tossing both my old and new laptops right out the window. 🙂

Basically, I was talked into buying a new laptop without Windows pre-installed—the idea being that I’d get a much better machine for the same price I was originally looking at—because apparently, installing it myself is "easy" and "something anyone can do." Well, turns out I can't. 🤦

First, I had a massive struggle just trying to access the BIOS to boot from a USB drive, and I was actually feeling quite relieved when the installation finally started... but now I've hit a wall. It's asking me to connect to the internet, but it won't show a single available network, and I am completely lost.

I managed to find some advice online saying I should use the command prompt, but I simply cannot get into it. I've tried Shift + F10, then Win + X, then Win + R... nothing works.

I just want to cry... 😢

You can always just get connected later once everything is set up. It's probably just that you don't have the network drivers installed yet. Just skip the connection step for now, finish the installation, load the drivers, and then you can get online. Don't let it get to you! It's simple.

Charles Wood73 said:😁

If that apple had just stayed untouched... would we all be living like gods right now?

I suppose the underlying idea is that we’re meant to live in paradise, rather than trying to live like gods. 😁