Not if it's on the bottom of the laptop and it's all worn off LOL. Seen that many times as well, but love it as I can just tell the bewns in work that want me to fix their wife's pride and joy to p1ss off.
win xp stuck in a boot loop
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Not if it's on the bottom of the laptop and it's all worn off LOL. Seen that many times as well, but love it as I can just tell the bewns in work that want me to fix their wife's pride and joy to p1ss off.
Give your average user a Windows install and they'll be in even more trouble. And they'll be pratting about trying to install umpteen anti-virus tools and God only knows what drivers for their printer, scanner and lady tickler.
Just about every distribution of Linux now has automatic partitioning and better hardware recognition than Windows, has had for years.
Windows is a con (Apple is an even bigger con, but let's not go there!), but Joe Public has been brainwashed into thinking he gets it free with his computer............:bang:
when i used linux last it didnt recongnize my wi fi adapter, my mouse or my sound card
for my wi fi adapter drivers didnt exsist i had to use ndiswrapper and the windows drivers for it and that never worked 100% and was no way simple to set up
i would love to see your everyday user faced with that problem particulary with the fact i couldnt connect to the internet within linux
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i booted it fron xp disc and ran check disc, it found an fixed a few problems, then it booted ok but the pc is full of crap, i ran msconfig and unchecked loads of stuff not needed to load on start up, rebooted and they thing still runs like it steam powered.
i uninstalled loads of stuff too then run out of time, looks like they had some dodgy fake anti virus and spyware software, so i removed them and left instructions for them to install avast and adaware, told them its also time to buy new pc
i uninstalled loads of stuff too then run out of time, looks like they had some dodgy fake anti virus and spyware software, so i removed them and left instructions for them to install avast and adaware, told them its also time to buy new pc
what are they running at the moment?
might be worth backing everything up wiping the hard drive and start again with a fresh install of xp
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everything is backed up, i was going to do that, but i'll do it if they call me back in. they need to replace the thing really its an old pentium 4 thing
lol pentium. you may as well say i've got a queer cedar mill lol.
lol..
lol..
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what's a queer cedar mill?
a type Iof p4 , but what I meant was p4 is gay yeah?
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Check eventviewer look in the "system" section in particular for "disk0" errors / warnings.
Had a PC like this the other day which was a good spec 4gb's RAM Core2Duo 2.6ghz running XP and would seem to be bogged down when ever it's accessing HDD. problem was the ram buffer on the HDD had failed diagnosed by the nice "disk 0 - failed to flush buffer" error in the event log
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WTF I apologise for my last few posts in here!
So, you bought cheap and very nasty hardware? I just bought -- see the cheap computing thread -- a £200 zoostorm eBuyer box, sans OS, popped a Wi-Fi in it, and bunged on Debian Sleaze (I went to the ridiculous expense of buying an 8 DVD set for a fiver). The only issue I had was with a £5 card reader which plain wouldn't work, so I got another £5 one from eBuyer which worked fine.
Drivers don't exist only when manufacturers -- in the absurd belief that their kit contains (often at 3 parties removed) some valuable IP -- won't release enough information for one to be created.
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its the 133mhz sd ram that'll be letting the system down! dealt with these old ones so many times and as said they just keep breakin down over and over
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Wireless networks are for n00bs anyway.
erm no
i use a mixer with built in sound cards to power my music
my wi fi adapter is an edimax high gain thing and my mouse was a standard everyday waireless mouse wich ate batterys like no tommrow
anyway im not saying linux is bad i was saying its not suitable for this situation
Well, less so for yours, or so it sounds. My ASDA wireless mouse and keyboard set seems to be doing OK (may only be bluetooth) but the mouse on that seems to like batteries.
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why linux in my thread i lost
the pc that broke used an old ball mouse an mouse mat, mouse mat had a fireman in shorts, when i took my hand off the mat it had warmed it up and made his shorts disapear
the pc that broke used an old ball mouse an mouse mat, mouse mat had a fireman in shorts, when i took my hand off the mat it had warmed it up and made his shorts disapear
why linux in my thread i lost
Sorry. See post #11 and it may all become clear.
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