tag:old-support.getadblock.com,2013-08-06:/discussions/problems/93459-chrome-ab-and-abp-constantly-crashingAdBlock: Discussion 2016-03-01T17:17:20Ztag:old-support.getadblock.com,2013-08-06:Comment/388951102016-02-12T05:14:20Z2016-02-12T05:15:21Z[Chrome] AB and ABP Constantly crashing<div><p>Thanks for the recommendation! It was a nice movie, I mean, the
main bad guy seemed to have lost his head in all those anger issues
he seemed to have, but aside from that it was a good mix of intense
and funny.</p>
<p>EDIT: Oh hey, this has gotten so long there's officially 2
pages. Nice. Bet you don't see that very often with average users
:)</p></div>kyle.nobletag:old-support.getadblock.com,2013-08-06:Comment/388951102016-02-12T15:03:08Z2016-02-12T15:03:08Z[Chrome] AB and ABP Constantly crashing<div><p>Oh Kyle, you are not an average user. :D</p></div>Rhanatag:old-support.getadblock.com,2013-08-06:Comment/388951102016-02-12T21:49:07Z2016-02-12T21:49:07Z[Chrome] AB and ABP Constantly crashing<div><p>True, I imagine with average users you get a simple fix problem,
give them a copy/paste answer for their common problem and they're
out the door, but you see, I like to talk a lot :)</p>
<p>That and my problem wasn't quite a simple fix, it was more like
my computer slowly dying.</p></div>kyle.nobletag:old-support.getadblock.com,2013-08-06:Comment/388951102016-02-12T23:04:34Z2016-02-12T23:04:34Z[Chrome] AB and ABP Constantly crashing<div><p>Exactly! There's not usually much challenge. But you...ah, that
was a problem I could sink my teeth into. Mind you, nothing I said
actually <em>helped</em>. I was just enjoying the ride. :)</p></div>Rhanatag:old-support.getadblock.com,2013-08-06:Comment/388951102016-02-13T05:49:48Z2016-02-13T05:51:22Z[Chrome] AB and ABP Constantly crashing<div><p>Eh, I don't think "Unknown program slowly eating the computer
from the inside out" is quite your expertise, we never did really
figure out what was wrong, Dell support just said reinstall the OS
to see if its software or hardware, BleepingComputer said hardware
but I did what Dell said anyway and it worked, that's about as
close as we got to figuring out the actual problem itself.</p>
<p>Although random theory I just came up with, what if it's a
hardware problem? Specifically the hard drive, except like heart
attacks the episodes aren't always violent, they can be quiet and
unnoticed, (Note: I failed biology class) so during the episodes,
nothing goes that wrong, except occasionally it can misread or
miswrite something, so the computer slowly dying from the inside
isn't actually a direct symptom but a side effect of the main quiet
symptom, that would also explain why reinstalling the OS would
temporarily fix it, because all the key components that were
degrading and dying painful deaths got reinstalled in a fresh new
state.</p>
<p>Or maybe I'm looking way too incredibly far into this. Like I
said, that's just a random idea I came up with on the spot :P</p>
<p>EDIT: Every time I post a comment and see that red bar at the
top suddenly appear I always think to myself "Okay what went
wrong," then remember it's just the website telling me I'm an
archived dinosaur.</p></div>kyle.nobletag:old-support.getadblock.com,2013-08-06:Comment/388951102016-02-14T12:46:48Z2016-02-14T12:46:48Z[Chrome] AB and ABP Constantly crashing<div><p>/me shrugs. It seems like a reasonable idea to me. But you're
right, hardware is definitely not my forte.</p>
<p>About that red bar, I know! I do the same thing! :D</p></div>Rhanatag:old-support.getadblock.com,2013-08-06:Comment/388951102016-02-15T10:58:08Z2016-02-15T10:58:08Z[Chrome] AB and ABP Constantly crashing<div><p>So, what's it like doin' what you do? Do you get paid doing this
or do you just do it for the sake of helping people?</p></div>kyle.nobletag:old-support.getadblock.com,2013-08-06:Comment/388951102016-02-15T15:38:54Z2016-02-15T15:38:54Z[Chrome] AB and ABP Constantly crashing<div><p>I've been either a tech writer or in tech support my entire
career (which is longer than I like to think about). I'm full-time
at AdBlock. We're a teeny-tiny company (just five full-timers plus
two volunteers for development and support). I love it, both the
company and tech support. You were right before; it's a lot of
copy-paste. There's enough real troubleshooting to keep me on my
toes, though, and I get to write, so it's perfect for me.</p>
<p>What about you? What do you do when you're not wrestling
recalcitrant PCs?</p></div>Rhanatag:old-support.getadblock.com,2013-08-06:Comment/388951102016-02-16T00:21:57Z2016-02-16T00:21:57Z[Chrome] AB and ABP Constantly crashing<div><p>Well I'm 16 so I don't quite have a job yet, so my day-to-day is
just the online school I go to and playing games and watching
youtube/netflix, although as you can imagine this kinda lifestyle
isn't the healthiest one out there, especially with my poor diet,
so recently I've looked into going to a gym to try and lose weight,
that's about it as far as my life goes. Not incredibly
interesting.</p></div>kyle.nobletag:old-support.getadblock.com,2013-08-06:Comment/388951102016-02-16T13:49:54Z2016-02-16T13:49:54Z[Chrome] AB and ABP Constantly crashing<div><p>Not the worst things you could be doing. I have three teenagers
myself (a 16-year-old, a 15-year-old, and a 13-year-old). Other
than the online school, which sounds pretty cool, that's pretty
much all they do too!</p>
<p>You don't need a gym, btw. Take a good brisk walk 30 minutes
daily (or two brisk 15-minute walks). You'll get fresh air and it's
free. :)</p></div>Rhanatag:old-support.getadblock.com,2013-08-06:Comment/388951102016-02-18T02:35:56Z2016-02-18T02:35:56Z[Chrome] AB and ABP Constantly crashing<div><p>Eh, the winters are pretty cold here, so I stopped going on
walks which I used to do, also I never went on walks on rainy days
because I have an irrational fear of being on wet/slippery
surfaces, long story short water park gone bad, first major injury,
and messed up a bone for the first time, and my first surgery, so
just generally speaking a gym would be good for me so outside
conditions can't deter me.</p>
<p>Only thing left in my way is my parents irrational fear of
traffic and keep putting off taking me there... Literally gotten to
the point where I've decided I'm going to get my drivers license
before I commit to going to a gym, so my parents hatred of traffic
wont be a problem.</p>
<p>Fun fact, I left this sitting here typed for like a day, now
I've taken the knowledge test required for my drivers permit, I
mean, I failed, but didn't really expect to nail it first shot, so
oh well.</p></div>kyle.nobletag:old-support.getadblock.com,2013-08-06:Comment/388951102016-02-18T17:00:41Z2016-02-18T17:00:41Z[Chrome] AB and ABP Constantly crashing<div><p>OK, yeah, I get the slippery-surfaces thing. Got one myself,
although not in as traumatic a way as you did. I'm just afraid of
that old commercial, "Help, I've fallen and I can't get up." :)</p>
<p>Which do you think will be harder, the written test or the
driving test? Do you have Drivers Ed at your school, or are you
trying to learn from your parents...who it sounds like don't enjoy
driving?</p></div>Rhanatag:old-support.getadblock.com,2013-08-06:Comment/388951102016-02-19T02:25:47Z2016-02-19T02:35:53Z[Chrome] AB and ABP Constantly crashing<div><p>I think the written test will be the only hard part, from
studying the drivers manual like my dad told me to it seems like
90% of driving is just common sense, I mean there's some numbers
here and there but honestly it looks like if you have good common
sense then you'll be perfectly fine.</p>
<p>EDIT: Oh yeah, one more thing, I think I might not be out of the
woods yet as far as this problem goes. Not entirely sure if it's
connected to the problem I was having but my game suddenly started
lagging, so I decided to alt-tab and kill off some
intensive-but-not-in-use programs like chrome and spotify, but
alt-tabbing froze the game, now here's where it gets weird, I tried
ctrl alt delete because I hate staring at a black screen of ice and
it took forever to register, nothing new, laggy games can take
forever to get out of full screen and hand control over to the
computer, but once the ctrl alt delete screen appeared, that was
it, just the screen Win7 logo Alienware logo and Alienware
background, no menu, I was essentially 100% locked out of my
computer because I had no way of getting out of that menuless menu,
so I basically said "Well that's awkward.... Don't mind me, you
keep doing exactly what I say not to do, I'm just going to hold
this power button. Good night." And when I turned the computer back
on, it did the usual "HEY! I DIDN'T TURN OFF THE NORMAL WAY, AM I
OKAY?! SHOULD WE BOOT INTO SAFE MODE?!" and as usual I went with
normal startup, but this wasn't quite normal... For some reason it
decided it needed to run CHKDSK before startup, and awkwardly
enough it did find an unindexed file, I'll be honest I got very
confused very quickly, the laggy game isn't unheard of, same with
alt-tab turning it into a block of ice and ctrl alt delete taking a
while to ctrl alt delete, but I've never heard of ctrl alt delete
appearing without a menu.... And I have no idea why my computer
felt the need to run CHKDSK at startup, or what that unindexed file
was that it apparently recovered,</p></div>kyle.nobletag:old-support.getadblock.com,2013-08-06:Comment/388951102016-02-19T23:16:48Z2016-02-19T23:16:48Z[Chrome] AB and ABP Constantly crashing<div><p>Most of driving <em>is</em> common sense, but paying attention
to the road, the driving conditions, and the other drivers all come
in handy, too. :) Get lots of practice in parking lots and back
roads if you can before you take your driving test.</p>
<p>So you didn't get a BSOD, so there was no hex dump code to look
up, right? You might try going ahead with Safe Mode if it happens
again. As I recall, there's some extra troubleshooting you can do
in Safe Mode that isn't available in a normal boot.</p>
<p>I found some stuff that might be helpful. Shoot, I forget, you
upgraded to Windows 10, didn't you?</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10/start-your-pc-in-safe-mode">
Start your PC in safe mode in Windows 10</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.windowscentral.com/how-boot-safe-mode-windows-10">How
to boot into Safe Mode in Windows 10</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.howtogeek.com/164876/how-to-use-safe-mode-to-fix-your-windows-pc-and-when-you-should/">
How to Use Safe Mode to Fix Your Windows PC (and When You
Should)</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzLslEevOIM&ab_channel=RobertMcMillen">
YouTube video: How to use Windows 10 Safe Mode to fix your PC</a>
(some of the other videos in that channel looked like they might be
helpful as well)</li>
</ul>
<p>As before, none of this may solve the problem! I hope it at
least gets you closer to asking the right questions of someone who
might know the answers. :)</p></div>Rhanatag:old-support.getadblock.com,2013-08-06:Comment/388951102016-02-23T19:33:55Z2016-02-23T19:33:55Z[Chrome] AB and ABP Constantly crashing<div><p>Whatever happened seems to have been a one-off problem, also I
appreciate the help with the win 10 safe mode instructions links
but uh.... I don't have win 10 xD I use win 7, because I'm a
dinosaur like that. Actually I've used 7 my whole life, considered
8 for a whole 8 seconds but the aesthetic disgusted me and it
seemed too much like it was made for tablet, it was VERY based on
touchscreen, and I'm glad I didn't get it since it seems a lot of
people agreed with me on that.</p>
<p>I hear 10 improved on that a bit, this time giving back the
start button that 8 oh so brutally murdered. If I recall correctly,
that is. I don't know, just can't let go of what I know and love.
Seriously, tried using a mac once, I was so lost. Their task bar
doesn't even have a way of showing what's currently open! It just
has things to open and adds what's already open to the bar! For all
you know, everything you have pinned could be open and running in
the background! It's like changing cultures, the extreme basics are
still the same, but apart from that literally everything is
different.</p></div>kyle.nobletag:old-support.getadblock.com,2013-08-06:Comment/388951102016-02-24T19:17:18Z2016-02-24T19:17:18Z[Chrome] AB and ABP Constantly crashing<div><p>OMG, I feel the same way about the Macs. I have to use one for
my current job, but I'm able to use Windows 10 on my primary
laptop, thank goodness.</p>
<p>Windows 10 is terrific. It corrects the UI problems from Windows
8 while being faster and more secure than Windows 7. Not that I'm
encouraging you to upgrade, or anything. Just sayin'. :)</p></div>Rhanatag:old-support.getadblock.com,2013-08-06:Comment/388951102016-02-26T22:04:19Z2016-02-26T22:06:24Z[Chrome] AB and ABP Constantly crashing<div><p>Eh, I plan to build a computer for the first time in the
near-ish future, so I'll grab win 10 for that I guess, but for now
I'll just stick to what I know and love.</p>
<p>EDIT: Also, me being a gamer, compatibility is another worry. A
lot of games work with Windows 10 but not all of them, so with time
that problem will fix itself. Hopefully all the time it needs is
the time it'll take to save up to get good computer parts.</p></div>kyle.nobletag:old-support.getadblock.com,2013-08-06:Comment/388951102016-02-28T20:08:01Z2016-02-28T20:08:01Z[Chrome] AB and ABP Constantly crashing<div><p>Ah, gaming, I didn't consider that. Although, my husband
recently upgraded to Win10, and he plays about a million games, so
it may still be OK. But nothing compares to building a PC from
scratch, if you're a tinkerer. :)</p></div>Rhanatag:old-support.getadblock.com,2013-08-06:Comment/388951102016-02-29T10:56:19Z2016-02-29T10:57:37Z[Chrome] AB and ABP Constantly crashing<div><p>Okay I just got very confused very fast, because to be honest at
the time of typing this I woke up like maybe a minute ago, that "my
husband" part is what confused me, because I assumed you were a
dude. Unless you are a dude and you're gay, that's fine too, still
caught me off guard though.</p>
<p>Wait I just googled it and Rhana's a girls name, I'll be honest
that's not an ordinary name so I assumed it was a username, like
how all my online friends know me as Apple, and I thought your
profile picture looked like a dude but guess I was wrong, man,
assumptions will be my undoing I swear.</p>
<p>Back to the topic we were talking about, pretty sure I'm a
tinkerer, growing up I used to take things apart to see how they
worked, although problem is companies don't really like or
anticipate that so it usually involves breaking it a bit first.</p>
<p>EDIT: It says there's 3 people watching this thread, I mean, me
and you make sense to the first 2 but who's #3?</p></div>kyle.nobletag:old-support.getadblock.com,2013-08-06:Comment/388951102016-02-29T16:38:17Z2016-02-29T16:38:17Z[Chrome] AB and ABP Constantly crashing<div><p>LOL No worries, Kyle! My picture does look a little, uh,
ambiguous. Nope, I'm a dudette through and through. Sorry to
confuse you like that. :)</p>
<p>Yep, you're a tinkerer. Breaking things...er, taking things
apart...to see what makes them tick is the classic symptom. All
hail the tinkerers of the world, because without them, we'd be
talking on rocks from our caves right now.</p>
<p>All of our tickets on this help platform have a default watcher,
our company president. He never looks at them, we just like to keep
him in the loop.</p></div>Rhanatag:old-support.getadblock.com,2013-08-06:Comment/388951102016-03-01T03:28:19Z2016-03-01T03:28:19Z[Chrome] AB and ABP Constantly crashing<div><p>Lol not sure how talking on rocks from caves would work, I mean,
best case scenario maybe it's morse code, but uh, if we were
devolved enough to use caves for homes and try to use rocks for
communication I don't think we'd be capable of understanding morse
code xD</p></div>kyle.nobletag:old-support.getadblock.com,2013-08-06:Comment/388951102016-03-01T17:17:18Z2016-03-01T17:17:18Z[Chrome] AB and ABP Constantly crashing<div><p>Exactly! So if you look at things a certain way, you, Kyle
Noble, are essential to Civilization As We Know It.</p>
<p>Kinda puts that upcoming math exam in proper perspective,
doesn't it?</p></div>Rhana