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Thorns PC Dying
Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 11:07 am
by 4aged
thorns wrote:Well even more bad news for me. My brand new computer (2 months old) decided to shit itself yesterday afternoon. So depending on how bad and what exactly has gone wrong, I may not even be back for the final round either. Cant even boot it up in safe mode now, so am thinking it some sort of hardware failure rather than software. Thats the third toy i've bought this year that has shat itself lol, first it was the MR2, then our racehorse, and now the bloody computer!
Oh man that sucks! doesnt sound good, hard drive maybe? try going into your BIOS and run a disk check? usualy push del of F8 as soon as you turn it on, there should be some option in there to run a disk check?
P.S your in CHCH aye? if ya need me to have a look give us holla?
Edit: Split topic as it is of a different topic. Moved to technical help.
Re: [LFSNZ]TARGA TOWN **round 5 weights up***
Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 12:00 pm
by thorns
4aged wrote:thorns wrote:Well even more bad news for me. My brand new computer (2 months old) decided to shit itself yesterday afternoon. So depending on how bad and what exactly has gone wrong, I may not even be back for the final round either. Cant even boot it up in safe mode now, so am thinking it some sort of hardware failure rather than software. Thats the third toy i've bought this year that has shat itself lol, first it was the MR2, then our racehorse, and now the bloody computer!
Oh man that sucks! doesnt sound good, hard drive maybe? try going into your BIOS and run a disk check? usualy push del of F8 as soon as you turn it on, there should be some option in there to run a disk check?
P.S your in CHCH aye? if ya need me to have a look give us holla?
Cheers, will keep that in mind. Am just waiting to hear back from playtech to see whether I need to send it back or what they suggest. Am reluctant at the moment to go playing with thing as its under warranty, and dont want to void that. Will try the run a desk check at lunch time though and see what happens.
Re: [LFSNZ]TARGA TOWN **round 5 weights up***
Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 12:43 pm
by 4aged
yea thats a good point , cant een take the side off without voiding aye. should be under warranty being only 2 months old, hopefully they sort ya out! Will be interesting to see what they do for you.
Re: [LFSNZ]TARGA TOWN **round 5 weights up***
Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 1:53 pm
by thorns
Have set the disc scan going. Am thinking its quite possibly the PSU, as I managed to get it into windows a few times at luch time, but then it would just all of a sudden just shut down and reboot. Just looked like a power cut, and then also had a BSOD that said something like "unfixable (some word along those lines) hardware error"
Re: [LFSNZ]TARGA TOWN **round 5 weights up***
Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 2:00 pm
by Steala
Can you get into BIOS and check CPU/MB temperatures??
Re: [LFSNZ]TARGA TOWN **round 5 weights up***
Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 2:12 pm
by thorns
Steala wrote:Can you get into BIOS and check CPU/MB temperatures??
Can still get into the BIOS. When I managed to get into windows at lunch time, I ran real temp, and all four cores were running at around 40 degrees, which Im pretty sure is quite standard, nothing seemed excessive.
Re: Thorns PC Dying
Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2009 8:48 pm
by R33NZ
Try looking at how bios is booting windows i hgad the same problem turned out something/virus/mal-software had changed my boot seq so check that if u havent already fixed it
Re: Thorns PC Dying
Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 7:43 am
by 4aged
this is all fixed, not sure what it was but it got fixed under warranty
Re: Thorns PC Dying
Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 10:09 am
by Steala
Cool, thread closed.