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Subject: Do you hate your computer? Sat Apr 20, 2019 6:33 pm
I"m having to do a system restore on my laptop, which means I'm having to use my phone to surf the internet.
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Subject: Re: Do you hate your computer? Sat Apr 20, 2019 6:36 pm
I am finding i very difficult to navigate this forum.
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Subject: Re: Do you hate your computer? Sat Apr 20, 2019 6:55 pm
The Call of the Wendigo wrote:
I am finding i very difficult to navigate this forum.
And to type.
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Subject: Re: Do you hate your computer? Sat Apr 20, 2019 6:56 pm
It's that pint of Strongbow you had the other day.
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Subject: Re: Do you hate your computer? Sat Apr 20, 2019 6:56 pm
Irreversible brain damage I'm afraid.
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Subject: Re: Do you hate your computer? Sat Apr 20, 2019 9:52 pm
System Restore has failed miserably. All I have is a blank screen with a cursor on it.
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Subject: Re: Do you hate your computer? Sat Apr 20, 2019 9:53 pm
Now I'm going to have to buy a new laptop.
There goes the money I was saving up for a TV.
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Subject: Re: Do you hate your computer? Sat Apr 20, 2019 10:00 pm
Can you not do a full reinstall?
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Subject: Re: Do you hate your computer? Sat Apr 20, 2019 10:50 pm
I don't know.
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Subject: Re: Do you hate your computer? Sat Apr 20, 2019 10:58 pm
I have found three possible solutions. I shall give them a try, in reverse order of scariness.
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Subject: Re: Do you hate your computer? Sat Apr 20, 2019 11:30 pm
All three methods have failed miserably.
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Subject: Re: Do you hate your computer? Sun Apr 21, 2019 12:01 am
I have fixed it by switching from my laptop's non-admin account to its administrator account.
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Subject: Re: Do you hate your computer? Thu May 23, 2019 5:12 pm
My old G5 Powermac was working one day, next day turned it on and nothing happened. I think the PSU gone, and it's not worthy of economic repair
It took me half an hour to get the old PowerPPC Macmini working so I could keep err.. keep backing up, some old DVDs.
And now the external 3TB Hard drive back up isn't working.
It had all my porn DVD rips/Top of the Pops downloads on it!!
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Subject: Re: Do you hate your computer? Thu May 23, 2019 7:06 pm
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Subject: Re: Do you hate your computer? Tue May 28, 2019 8:03 pm
I've sent my little external backup drive back to Lacie so I can get another one under guarantee.
Oh, gawd, I hope they can't fix it, and find out I've got a load of 80s TotPs I've st*len off the internets!
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Subject: Re: Do you hate your computer? Sun Jun 09, 2019 9:32 pm
Got the LaCie drive back, I now have 2 4TB external harddrives, that's more storage than I'll ever need!
OOh, I see the Cheesgrater is back:
Maybe I could get one to replace my old G5 Power Mac.
Checks Price…
Nope.
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Subject: Re: Do you hate your computer? Sun Jun 09, 2019 9:33 pm
Why is that video only using a third of the screen?
Nightjar
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Subject: Re: Do you hate your computer? Sun Jun 09, 2019 9:56 pm
Apparently it's 5 or 6 thousand quid.
The monitor's another 4+ thousand.
There's also a stand you can by for $/£1000...
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Subject: Re: Do you hate your computer? Sun Jun 09, 2019 10:15 pm
I wonder how much the little wheels will be?
I was just looking at the trashcan Mac Pro(?), it's smaller than I thought it would be, more like a bigger Mac mini/G4 Cube sorta design
They're about 3 thousand for the weak 6 core version, with a feeble 16GB of ram.
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Subject: Re: Do you hate your computer? Fri Jul 26, 2019 9:27 pm
WhatDoesThisButtonDo? wrote:
My old G5 Powermac was working one day, next day turned it on and nothing happened. I think the PSU gone, and it's not worthy of economic repair
So I was going to take it down the huge aluminium cheese-grater down to the recycling centre and chuck it into one of those skips that get sent to China or something.
But I though, I'd plug it in, just incase it's started working, Nope.
Pull out the Graphics card, might get £1.56 on ebay for it, still not powering on, pulled out the 3rd part USB card, that'll be handy on one of my old PPC computers with only a 1.1 UBS ports on it.
And
And it powers on
Hang on, what's this:
Well, I say that, I've still not put the Hard drives back in and connected it to the monitor, but it's powering on anyway!
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