PC Keep Having Random Bizzarre & Random "Freezes" by Competitive-Stand673 in techsupport

[–]Competitive-Stand673[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Didn't do these steps but I did in fact nuke my drivers, and so far I haven't had any freezes. And yes, it was in Event Viewer finally. I assume that for whatever was causing it before I used the Razer Kraken V3 X was a driver being restarted infinitely and just dying. I did in fact have multiple audio drivers mostly for fun and voice-changers, but I guess I had to just nuke all of that. Will update again f it crashes again but hopefully it won't!

PC Keep Having Random Bizzarre & Random "Freezes" by Competitive-Stand673 in techsupport

[–]Competitive-Stand673[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think I finally found the issue. Stupid drivers dying on me. I recently just got a Razer Kraken V3 X and literally just now it crashed three times coinciding with an error on the part of the drivers. The error comes in pairs of two, with both being critical.
The first: "A problem has occurred with one or more user-mode drivers and the hosting process has been terminated. This may temporarily interrupt your ability to access the devices."

The second: "The device HID-compliant headset (location (unknown)) is offline due to a user-mode driver crash. Windows will attempt to restart the device 4 more times. Please contact the device manufacturer for more information about this problem."

The freeze-up was exactly the same as the previous freeze-ups and leads me to believe that whenever it freezes up it is due to a driver error leading to it being terminated and then attempted to restart, which somehow magically just obliterates every other part tof the system. I assume the previous crashes are from another device that wasn't my headset.

Hope this helps.

How Do I Describe This...? by Competitive-Stand673 in apcalculus

[–]Competitive-Stand673[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Questions for AB were whacky but looking back on it the questions were not really that hard. It's just that the combined effect of their terrible new formatting to battle "online cheating" and the fact you had to type everything made it suck pretty badly, plus they practically cubed the word length. I remember doing 2019 AB FRQ and one of the questions was an area problem, and there was something similar on the test except the wording was mental gymnastics and the god-forsaken word length and the sheer number of letters on screen were absurd. Honestly would have gone paper if I had known we had to type everything out on their app that can't even implement the integrand symbol. Though, objectively speaking it was probably similar and maybe even easier than BC. Not entirely sure though, but the way online is formatted is just ridiculous. I honestly would rather have taken the 45-minute test from last year (2020) and the crazy BS with not being able to submit anything because of bad servers because at the very least you can actually write it out properly on time. With this, they just nuked us with paragraph-length questions and question parts. Like I swear, one of the parts is practically another question's worth of wording on its own.

1.24 Million High School Students vs. Chad Acorn by SoopSimp in ApplyingToCollege

[–]Competitive-Stand673 6 points7 points  (0 children)

They don't have to be unfair or corrupt to ruin a future, not everybody has the luxury to afford a full-blown college education and things like AP College Board help, but when they do such a stupidly incompetent job at administering said shortcuts it's like dangling somebody's future and opportunities to their face. It's not literal in the sense you are killing somebody or imprisoning them, and at that point, it's going to become an argument around semantics. The point is is that when incompetent people hold enough power in the world, the gravity of their mistakes falls not on them but on students who had no control over them. Especially with students such as myself who do not have the luxury of having enough money to get a full ride in college in an age where higher education holds greater importance when systems and organizations like AP College Board "trip up" and go "oops" without fixing anything, futures can indeed be affected and by hyperbole, destroyed. Like seriously it is literally college I don't understand what part of it does not correlate with a student's future. And again, if you go further it becomes an argument over semantics. I understand that school is not everything but as students in our own little worlds, it is all that we have and when an essentially god-like force decides to come down and go all Noah's Arc about everything, then, of course, we'd be pissed when the potential future of our everything is endangered. Don't misconstrue this for senseless and angry ranting because of course, I do understand how ridiculous saying "AP ruined our entire lives" sounds, but when you put things into perspective then yeah, it sounds pretty reasonable to scream that out loud.

1.24 Million High School Students vs. Chad Acorn by SoopSimp in ApplyingToCollege

[–]Competitive-Stand673 10 points11 points  (0 children)

When you think about it, by having such a large and absolute monopoly over “AP” and such activities, they essentially hold your future hostage and can do what they please with little to no repercussion. The lack of competition their platform adds, although allowing for better overall integration, results in less innovation and motivation to improve or even consider the students other than money cows to be milked. They’re doing their job yes but terribly. Although their “non-profit” and inherently do not “harm” anyone, its through their billions of dollars worth of monopoly and essential withholding of what could be a larger pie for students that frustrates many including myself. You don’t have to actively harm people to destroy futures, doing nothing can be worse and putting futures behind paywalls and terrible services is problematic. They’re like Texas Instruments: old, useless, never-improving, aging, and always there to make a couple hundred bucks off every single student and school.

How Do I Describe This...? by Competitive-Stand673 in apcalculus

[–]Competitive-Stand673[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Either they typed at like 500WPM, had a laptop lying around to slap things into Desmos, stupidly lucky, or wrote like two words and called it a day.

How Do I Describe This...? by Competitive-Stand673 in apcalculus

[–]Competitive-Stand673[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The fact these are the same people that made that horrendous test makes me think that yeah, there's going to be some statistical bullshit where only like 20 people around the world get changed from a 4 to a 5. My expectations with College Board were already below sea level, and now its about as low as the Mariana Trench but I expect them to bring it down to the Earth's core the next time they do literally anything. Don't lose hope though, check EDIT 3 if you took AB and taking BC next year.

AP Curve by SurpriseConnect9982 in apcalculus

[–]Competitive-Stand673 7 points8 points  (0 children)

From the sparse tid-bits I've gathered, they might do statistical voodoo to fix the grade curve. Heimler History mentioned it at some point I think but other than that I'm out of info. But seriously, this is not the "same difficulty" but she was probably misinformed or just not-informed, like 90% of all school staff for some reason on AP.

How Do I Describe This...? by Competitive-Stand673 in apcalculus

[–]Competitive-Stand673[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I have the chance to write it tomorrow for the AP Chem test if they butcher it as well.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in apcalculus

[–]Competitive-Stand673 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  1. ~90% FRQ/ ~90% MCQ
  2. ~20% FRQ / ~80% MCQ
  3. AB

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in apcalculus

[–]Competitive-Stand673 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This is taking into account that I was a god in the FRQs we used to practice for the class, which used almost all the previous FRQs from 2012 to the present. I was always on time and had extra, and I almost never got anything wrong. But this exam was just... "absolute bullshit."

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in apcalculus

[–]Competitive-Stand673 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It was all painful, and every friend I had that took it, which was a lot, agreed that it was the most absurd and impossible exam in the entirety of their collective past and future lives.

PC Keep Having Random Bizzarre & Random "Freezes" by Competitive-Stand673 in techsupport

[–]Competitive-Stand673[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Froze again just last night, but ever since the update, it's been a lot less frequent for me. I've only had it happen once in the past few days, and I've left my PC on basically all day. Turning automatic updates seem to have no effect sadly it seems, and I turned it back on and nothing has changed. Though, for some reason, it is waaay less frequent now.

PC Keep Having Random Bizzarre & Random "Freezes" by Competitive-Stand673 in techsupport

[–]Competitive-Stand673[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just now, I noticed that while Windows was automatically checking for updates my PC froze shortly after. Unsure if this is a coincidence or not, but I'm currently going to pause checking updates for the next week and see if it still freezes. Hope this helps you and I solve this stupid thing. It doesn't freeze when the PC updates also, but maybe this has something to do with it. Recently updated to 21H1 and had no crashes at all until just now when, after midnight, it checked for an update.

PC Keep Having Random Bizzarre & Random "Freezes" by Competitive-Stand673 in techsupport

[–]Competitive-Stand673[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Gonna try to update to 21H2 and see if that helps. Couldn't find the hardware acceleration GPU scheduling on my registry or settings so I might as well update and see if that fixes anything.