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geopod
02-07-2006, 01:46 PM
Who knows computers mine went down yesturday night at home.Call me 916-4456 if you know how to fix em.

george
Beermaster
02-07-2006, 02:09 PM
What did you do Georgie?
TheReefGeek
02-07-2006, 02:47 PM
Describe "went down"
tcollin
02-07-2006, 03:27 PM
did it experience "sudden deceleration trauma"?


Dave
geopod
02-07-2006, 04:07 PM
She froze up and I shut it down to restart it and when it booted back up it asked for the bootup disk so I instaled it then it asked for the Operating system cd so I installed that then it brought me to a screen sayi ng you have to format your drive c.So now this is all beyond me.I dont know anyone around to fix it.But I need it done asap.As this is the only computer for the house right now...Anyone wanna take a crack at it??

george
TheReefGeek
02-07-2006, 07:18 PM
This will take a few hours min. to fix.

Hard drive might have gone, leaving no OS to boot from. This would mean a new hard drive, and re-installing the whole OS and drivers, etc.

Or this is just an OS issue, could be some corrupt files. Then you would need to backup your current drive to another computer (unless you have 2 drives, or a partition for your OS) and then format the drive, and re-install the whole OS and drivers, etc.

It could be motherboard related too, but less likely.

So unfortunately it is basically a whole night of diagnosing and fixing, at best.

This is the best I can tell from your info, it might be simpler and only be an hour to fix a small issue, but it is tough when it is the only machine because you dont have another one to test with.
tcollin
02-07-2006, 08:40 PM
did you already format the drive? if you did, everything is gone. if you didn't, stuff may be recoverable. will phone.
KrazyKuch
02-07-2006, 10:19 PM
Same kinda thing happened to me except for the fact that my hard drive is toast!!
geopod
02-08-2006, 06:46 PM
So I hear my 1 yr olds hardrive is toated.gone to the dogs...caput..finish....no more...thanks for all those who have offered and helped me out here.

George
TheReefGeek
02-08-2006, 06:58 PM
Check out www.memoryexpress.com for good prices on a new one.
muck
02-08-2006, 07:02 PM
Better yet... go to www.a-computers.ca (http://www.a-computers.ca) :wink:
TheReefGeek
02-08-2006, 07:11 PM
They are actually pretty close to each other, I usually check the pricing at both places when I build machines, but I am more confident memory express will be around for warranty issues.
tbone
02-09-2006, 07:40 AM
if there are files you want on your hd and it it still spins. you maybe able get them.

you'll need a linux live cd disk. and transfer the files over to the net or something.
geopod
03-04-2006, 11:51 PM
Back to the drawing board. Anyone around that is a computer god?

PM me for details

george