Desktop or Laptop?
You will probably find that (if its less than 5 years old) when it starts up it mentions "F11 for recovery options". Meaning your XP CD is irrelevant.
Desktop or Laptop?
You will probably find that (if its less than 5 years old) when it starts up it mentions "F11 for recovery options". Meaning your XP CD is irrelevant.
Reactor Online. Sensors Online. Weapons Online. All Systems Nominal.
To clarify:
Desktop machine.
The CD drive does work.
I've had this 'puter about 7 years so it ain't young.
It's done tons of work over those years, mostly as my business machine. The current home machine is also on the blink but is in computer hospital being healed (I hope).
This problem started after I closed my business and "cleared out" lots of files that I "didn't need" any more. Seems to me I might have cleared out something vital...although, it worked fine in the morning and then wouldn't fire up next boot that afternoon.
At present I am using the second backup - newer but low spec. At least it runs, albeit slowly.
Fucking computers...![]()
. “No pleasure is worth giving up for two more years in a rest home.” Kingsley Amis
suckah fool. now you gone and pissed off the midget that lives inside the case pulling levers.. he's meticulous about those files. you better rack up some good porn on the credit card to appease him.
Fer Krizake!
I dunno what is going on, but I would advise everybody in the world NOT to let me near your computer...
I have three of the things here. One has just come back from having the OS reinstalled. The first needs the same treatment and the second backup, just this morning, exploded the power supply when I hooked it up. So that is three out of three.
For the last several years, I have had a spare power supply hanging around. You think I can find it now that I need it? Of course fucking not. I probably chucked it out...you know, "I haven't had a use for that in five years - get rid of it. Don't horde stuff!"Besides, I just bet that power supply bang took out half of the components anyway...gawd.
. “No pleasure is worth giving up for two more years in a rest home.” Kingsley Amis
You realise you're just meant to browse internet and type stuff on them right?
Me thinks you're doing something wrong to require re-installs etc.
Originally Posted by Jane Omorogbe from UK MSN on the KTM990SM
Yeah. Switching them on. That seems to be the common link. Both the OS failures occurred at start-up - they had both functioned and shut down normally in the previous session.
The exploding power supply also happened at start-up. I was hoping to get my address book out of that machine to install in the newly fixed vista machine. Again, it had performed normally last boot.
HOWEVER! At least one thing went right. I eventually found my spare power supply (in the bottom of the bottom box in the back of the wardrobe, behind and under everything else of course), installed it in place of the boomed one and all went well. I got the addresses out and successfully installed them in the vista machine.
Time I left the buggers alone for a week. I need to go on a motorcycle tour of the entire country. Pity I have no money...
. “No pleasure is worth giving up for two more years in a rest home.” Kingsley Amis
This happened to me recently and the problem was hard drive failure.![]()
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