I've killed my 'puter, please help me!
Feb 25th 2010, 4:21 pm
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Re: I've killed my 'puter, please help me!
Feb 25th 2010, 4:22 pm
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Feb 25th 2010, 4:23 pm
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Re: I've killed my 'puter, please help me!
Ha, strongly considering a change of birthday pressie from the OH (19th March), are those netbooks totally cr*p? Where's the cheapest places to buy compys in Oz, Harvey Norman or?
Feb 25th 2010, 4:25 pm
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Feb 25th 2010, 4:27 pm
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Re: I've killed my 'puter, please help me!
Set Bios to boot from CD insert windows 7 and reboot computer.... if that doesnt work it means your HDrive is fried.
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Feb 25th 2010, 4:27 pm
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Feb 25th 2010, 4:28 pm
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Re: I've killed my 'puter, please help me!
Bang away at the F6 key during start up and see if you can get a screen that looks like the one posted above. Go to Integrated peripheral and disable the USB controller. The USB legacy support will do nothing, it's only there to support USB 1.0 and 1.5. So don't worry about it.
Feb 25th 2010, 4:28 pm
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Re: I've killed my 'puter, please help me!
In the absence of a Vista disc (for Windows repair) try to boot to command prompt and disable hibernation?
Feb 25th 2010, 4:31 pm
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Re: I've killed my 'puter, please help me!
Aw poo, I've done the boot from CD thing first and it's doing summit promising, but am I gonna lose alllllll of my stuff now!?
Feb 25th 2010, 4:32 pm
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Re: I've killed my 'puter, please help me!
Probably need to know the motherboard manufacturer. The manual probably won't be much help though, they're always written in appalling English.
Feb 25th 2010, 4:33 pm
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Re: I've killed my 'puter, please help me!
Unless you know someone that can take your harddrive out and copy it.
Sledgehammer to fix a nut is always the quickest option and it's what the computer shops do.
Feb 25th 2010, 4:33 pm
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Re: I've killed my 'puter, please help me!
It says 'Starting Windows' in a Windows 7 picture thingy....now that's gone and the cursor is on the screen, or should that be CURSER!!!??!?!?!?
Curser just stayed there....nothing more happened so I've switched the bloody thing off...
Curser just stayed there....nothing more happened so I've switched the bloody thing off...
