Southpa Posted February 12, 2004 Report Share Posted February 12, 2004 LOL, just finished formatting and reinstalled everything on my boot drive. The 'puter my father gave me had some "issues". Just logging in. so...how is everyone?? Quote Link to comment
www Posted February 12, 2004 Report Share Posted February 12, 2004 I'm not saying! Quote Link to comment
weezerboy Posted February 12, 2004 Report Share Posted February 12, 2004 you missed a mini slam war Quote Link to comment
Drak Posted February 12, 2004 Report Share Posted February 12, 2004 New blood joined the herd, quickly were subdued. Quote Link to comment
Southpa Posted February 12, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 12, 2004 Maybe someone could help me out with this "issue". I'm talking about "weird scenes inside the gold mine" where this computer is concerned. Don't you just HATE it when something screws up and then fixes itself for no apparent reason? And you just don't know why or even if it will occur again? It goes with anything, guitars, cars and..computers. Anyway, my system shutdown for no reason last night. When trying to reboot I got "file ntfs.sys missing or corrupt" message. I set my CD-ROM as first boot and booted up the system with the Win XP disc. Part way in the machine tells me that "setupdd.sys file is unavailable". System shutdown again. Tried booting up with the secondary BIOS and get "hal.dll missing or corrupt" message. Tried starting in SAFE mode, "previous known working setup mode", etc. etc. and system just cycles thru startup again with final result going back to "ntfs.sys missing or corrupt." Started up again and the damn machine is running fine now! What gives? One thing I don't abide in my world is UNRELIABILITY. Quote Link to comment
weezerboy Posted February 12, 2004 Report Share Posted February 12, 2004 one thing that i always try, and always works..... hit the bloody thing with a metal ruler...that'll teach it <shakes fist> Quote Link to comment
Brian Posted February 13, 2004 Report Share Posted February 13, 2004 When you first tried starting it up normally did it ever go into scan disc mode checking for errors on the hard drive? Quote Link to comment
Southpa Posted February 13, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 13, 2004 It never got that far, just cycled through startup mode a couple times then wound up with ntfs.sys error. Oh well, the machine seems to be working ok now. I don't know what happened, I ran a program called System Mechanic and cleared out lots of crap. Quote Link to comment
StratDudeDan Posted February 13, 2004 Report Share Posted February 13, 2004 *cough cough* MAC *cough* i love living in a world where things work. i once ran across some comparison between cars and computers. if a MAC were a car, it'd get 5000mpg, could move at speeds upwards of 300 mph with ease, and would be invincible in a wreck, but could only drive on 10% of the roads. you know what? those 10% are the best roads to me, so i'm sticking with 'em. Quote Link to comment
soapbarstrat Posted February 13, 2004 Report Share Posted February 13, 2004 one thing that i always try, and always works..... hit the bloody thing with a metal ruler...that'll teach it <shakes fist> I sorta thought something like that once, so I punched my computer. Instead of teaching it a lesson, it killed it. Quote Link to comment
fidgec94 Posted February 13, 2004 Report Share Posted February 13, 2004 1.There's a check box or two in my internet settings that always annoy me. I dont ever touch them cos they're embedded within very specific menus, yet, the internet isnt working, the first thing i check....what a suprise, the boxes are set wrong! 2.Recently i kept getting error reports (or an error message asking if i wanted to send an error report) every time i opened up more than than one internet browser. I could open a new one by hitting Ctrl N in the existing browser but starting a new one from the desktop icon, just closed all of 'em. This week, its working fine Quote Link to comment
CodFather Posted February 14, 2004 Report Share Posted February 14, 2004 one thing that i always try, and always works..... hit the bloody thing with a metal ruler...that'll teach it <shakes fist> lol but my computers a beast and would eat me if i did as for the question, did you um...delete anything!? i accidentally did that once..... Quote Link to comment
Scott Rosenberger Posted February 14, 2004 Report Share Posted February 14, 2004 *cough cough* MAC *cough* i love living in a world where things work. i once ran across some comparison between cars and computers. if a MAC were a car, it'd get 5000mpg, could move at speeds upwards of 300 mph with ease, and would be invincible in a wreck, but could only drive on 10% of the roads. you know what? those 10% are the best roads to me, so i'm sticking with 'em. those 10% of the roads get me everywhere I need to go too!!! Quote Link to comment
StratDudeDan Posted February 14, 2004 Report Share Posted February 14, 2004 *cough cough* MAC *cough* i love living in a world where things work. i once ran across some comparison between cars and computers. if a MAC were a car, it'd get 5000mpg, could move at speeds upwards of 300 mph with ease, and would be invincible in a wreck, but could only drive on 10% of the roads. you know what? those 10% are the best roads to me, so i'm sticking with 'em. those 10% of the roads get me everywhere I need to go too!!! my point exactly, fellow MAC brethren. Quote Link to comment
G_urr_A Posted February 15, 2004 Report Share Posted February 15, 2004 Southpa, what motherboard is in your computer? (More curiosity than help, but anyways) Quote Link to comment
Southpa Posted February 15, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 15, 2004 MB is AMD ATHLON GA-7DXR. I made a few CMOS changes (forget what I did ) but it seems to be running fine now. Quote Link to comment
Lex Luthier Posted February 15, 2004 Report Share Posted February 15, 2004 one thing that i always try, and always works..... hit the bloody thing with a metal ruler...that'll teach it <shakes fist> My tower is on a lower shelf just above the floor, so I tend to kick it when it's going mental. Quote Link to comment
Lex Luthier Posted February 15, 2004 Report Share Posted February 15, 2004 *cough cough* MAC *cough* i love living in a world where things work. i once ran across some comparison between cars and computers. if a MAC were a car, it'd get 5000mpg, could move at speeds upwards of 300 mph with ease, and would be invincible in a wreck, but could only drive on 10% of the roads. you know what? those 10% are the best roads to me, so i'm sticking with 'em. What do you mean by 10% of the roads? Can MACS not go on evry website or something? Quote Link to comment
westhemann Posted February 15, 2004 Report Share Posted February 15, 2004 i think he means software Quote Link to comment
StratDudeDan Posted February 15, 2004 Report Share Posted February 15, 2004 i think he means software indeed. Quote Link to comment
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