I turn on the computer and nothing happens. The dumb thing was running fine at noon. I put it in the case, carry it around for a few hours, take it out at 3:30, and it's dead. Bootable CDs don't work, the caps-lock light won't come on, even the screen backlight isn't activating.
Frell.
I suppose this is where warranties come in handy.
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
Can someone explain this "frell" thing to me?
And couldn't you have maybe knocked something loose when you were carrying it around?
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
Fake cursing from a TV show. It is maddening. Fake curses are the most annoying thing in the universe, by Zarquon!
Posted by Topher (Member # 71) on :
This happened to me; it's not necessarily the BIOS. With me it was the CMOS battery that died.
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
I have noticed that when the CMOS battery starts going it will give you a warning... loses time, needs to be reconfigured...
Moving PC and notebooks around I have encountered loosened connections, even not moving them, when I lived next to a busy road, the vibrations seem to have wiggled the IDE 1 cable loose. That one I didn't solve, my roommate did...
Posted by Free ThoughtCrime America (Member # 480) on :
You may have to learn to live with the fact that your computer hates you, and has always hated you, and will always hate you. It's sad, I know, but our future robot masters have the beginnings of their hatred for us developing now.
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
I don't think this is the first time someone has said such to him....
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
Smeg off.
Posted by Free ThoughtCrime America (Member # 480) on :
That sounds like a pesticide.
Posted by Magnus de Pym (Member # 239) on :
For a moment I read "My Bias is dead." But then I was outside, and saw that the porcine population was still firmly on the ground.
Posted by Austin Powers (Member # 250) on :
Oh bloody hell. Stuff all the fucking fake curses on TV. I hate them all. Grrrrr...
On the other hand...what the smeg! (I don't think that sounds so bad - better than frell anyway)
Posted by Free ThoughtCrime America (Member # 480) on :
Smeg is too close to smegma for me. Which is pretty frelling filthy.
Posted by E. Cartman (Member # 256) on :
"I wasn't masturbating, I was just cleaning it when it went off."
Use soap. I cannot emphasize this enough.
Posted by Teelie (Member # 280) on :
My computer's time is off by a few seconds. I have to constantly update it. I hope the CMOS isn't dying on me. I haven't had a warning yet though.
Posted by Dat (Member # 302) on :
You're worried your computer's clock is off by a few seconds? What are you comparing it's clock to?
Posted by akb1979 (Member # 557) on :
Well hell! - I have to reset my PC clock every now and then because it can't keep the time when switched off. Of course there's also that frellin' annoying fact that it never shuts down properly - I have never once received the "It is now safe to shut off your computer" message since my upgrade in January. Works fine at the shop though. Any ideas as to what's gone wrong?
Posted by Teelie (Member # 280) on :
quote:Originally posted by Dat: You're worried your computer's clock is off by a few seconds? What are you comparing it's clock to?
An atomic clock online. It is accurate to a few nanoseconds or some such. Lately the time it has been off has increased.
Posted by Grokca (Member # 722) on :
I've had 4 laptops, two desktops and none of them have kept good time, don't sweat it.
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
akb1979, my roommate's Compaq does that also, a Win98 upgrade to ME upgrade to XP. After the upgrade to ME it would never do a restart and takes 10 to 15 minutes to shutdown.
Posted by E. Cartman (Member # 256) on :
AKB: try enabling advanced power management (settings >> control panel >> power).
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
"After the upgrade to ME it would never do a restart and takes 10 to 15 minutes to shutdown."
That's probably mainly because of the fact that WinME is a piece of shit.
Posted by Grokca (Member # 722) on :
quote:That's probably mainly because of the fact that WinME is a piece of shit.
Truer words were never typed.
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
You are very right, but, would he listen to me..... Noooooo.....
I tried telling him....
Posted by akb1979 (Member # 557) on :
Ritten - 10 - 15 minutes! Does my machine think that I have all day!?!?!
E. Cartman - thanks, I'll try that.
Yeah - ME is crap, wish I'd gone for XP now . . . whine, bitch, moan . . .
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
Why would anyone "upgrade" from Win 98 to Win ME anyway, even before XP or 2000 came out. They are near identical, apart from ME being, well, shit. It would be like upgrading from 98 to 98 second edition. Largely pointless.
Posted by Mucus (Member # 24) on :
The answer would be: "Curiosity" which is is usually followed by "...killed the cat."
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
Someone told him ME ran faster than 98.....
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
If, by "faster", they meant it takes less time to get from startup to crash, then, yes, it does.
Posted by E. Cartman (Member # 256) on :
I'm going to risk my neck here and say that, when properly configured, WinME is the (marginally) better OS of the two. If you're willing to kill spare time, anyway. Which you wouldn't be, because you'd have to go through far more trouble than it is actually worth.
Posted by Free ThoughtCrime America (Member # 480) on :
I have discovered a truly remarkable solution to the Win ME problem, but this forum is too narrow to contain it.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Format's last theorem?
Posted by MaGiC (Member # 59) on :
akb, remove all files from your start directory, restart and then shutdown. If this doesn't work use msconfig (start run msconfig) to remove the startup items from there. Restart and shutdown. If this works re add them one by one until you find which is causing the problem....there is a very detailed tech note on the problem at support.microsoft.com
It is my most common complaint at work both with WIN98 and ME.
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You're worried your computer's clock is off by a few seconds? What are you comparing it's clock to?![[Wink]](wink.gif)
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Any ideas as to what's gone wrong?