Canon IXUS 240 HS
Canon PowerShot SX240 HS
Nikon D800
Samsung DV300F
Olympus OM-D E-M5
Nikon Coolpix P510
Canon PowerShot SX260 HS
Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ30
Nikon Coolpix S9300
More PC Woes…
Well, the New Year has got off to a great start (not!) as my PC is experiencing more problems. After last week’s failure to boot up Windows, which was rectified by copying the system files from a floppy disk via DOS, my PC now seems to have some kind of mechanical failure. It starts to boot up into Windows, but then there’s a high-pitched noise, the hard drive stops spinning and the system shuts itself down. It has loaded Windows successfully a couple of times, but not for long. I’m guessing that the hard drive has some sort of physical damage and needs replacing, but as always there’s some data that I need to retrieve.
I’m writing this on a really, really old laptop, which is no fun at all I can tell you. If you’ve emailed me in the last couple of days, please bear with me as I try to get everything working again…
Canon IXUS 240 HS Review
Canon PowerShot SX240 HS Review
Nikon D800 Review
Samsung DV300F Review
Olympus OM-D E-M5 Review
Nikon Coolpix P510
Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ30
Canon PowerShot SX260 HS
Fujifilm X-Pro1
Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX200V
#1 Jorgen Holm
Think different. Buy a Mac ...
5:08 am - Monday, January 12, 2004
#2 David Mantripp
...and get a different set of problems.
Sorry Jorgen, but this is the last sort of comment anybody needs when they've got computer problems, whatever system they're using. Macs can go as drastically wrong as PCs. I should know, I've been using them for about 17 years. And I just spent most of the weekend doing a clean install of OS X 10.3 on a 3rd machine, following the mysterious creeping slowdown & instabilities that follow an update install.
if you think Macs=trouble free computing, then I suggest you take a step further and try switching it on
11:32 am - Monday, January 12, 2004
#3 Mark Goldstein
UPDATE: An engineer at work is kindly taking a look to figure out what's wrong. His initial assessment is that the CPU may be the problem, rather than the hard drive. Fingers crossed, as I need the data more than the cash
11:34 am - Monday, January 12, 2004
#4 Mark Goldstein
There's good news and bad news (isn't there always...)
Apparently my hard drive and data are fine. Phew
Memory and graphics card are also doing well.
Unfortunately the motherboard has departed this earth to the great pile of broken computer equipment in the sky.
That's not good - a new motherboard and CPU to go with it are required.
Expect an update tomorrow on how much lighter my wallet will be...
8:02 pm - Tuesday, January 13, 2004