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Former Member
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 7/24/10 0:276:13:17:32 781,650 1,920  Are you trying to say we are sinking??? hmmmm?  |
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Former Member
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Actually my laptop died and I can't afford to fix it just yet, so I am really really glad you campers are camping out in my neck of the woods!!
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cswchan
Advanced Cruncher Canada Joined: Nov 24, 2005 Post Count: 144 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Actually my laptop died and I can't afford to fix it just yet, so I am really really glad you campers are camping out in my neck of the woods!! What seems to be wrong with it... maybe between all the campers here we may be able to come up with a solution for you... |
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Sport
Veteran Cruncher USofA Joined: Oct 23, 2006 Post Count: 1022 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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I'm pretty good with laptops...and willing to help!!!
----------------------------------------Shirley check your EMail   |
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Sport
Veteran Cruncher USofA Joined: Oct 23, 2006 Post Count: 1022 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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did you ever consider becoming a part-time Base Camper, Sgt.Joe? You would fit in well with this group of misfits. I will put it on the burner and see how it fries. I might know someone with system who may put it to occasional use. Haven't been able to convince them yet to join. Cheers Joining BaseCamp is painless...well almost ...and with the right contacts....QUICK!!!!!! the resulting "Feel Good" is well worth it ...besides you can come and go as you wish....no obligations BaseCamp is the most Gypsy bunch of crunchers you could possibly imagine!!!!! |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
I didn't get any email yet sport.
----------------------------------------cswchan: I have driven some fairly nice people nuts with my lack of teck savvy. it has been turning itself off for a couple of weeks without activity, and I thought it was a power setting thing that I would get to eventually. Friday I had difficulty getting it to power up. It being a Sony vista home premium. Than when I did get it running, I had no access to the tool bar, the thingy at the bottom of the screen. I could not shut down without using control/alt/delete. I kept playing with it...probably caused more problems, but I could access the start link, but there was nothing in the window...it was white with no links. I could at that time access the program files through the all program thingy. I tried system restore. The system said it was unable to restore....dumb system!!! I tried to have norton file back up restore....again it would not restore and went into frozen mode. I can't remember what else I did. oh..this computer is about 3 years old....about 120 in computer years?? LOL Any ideas anyone has, besided my tossing it out the window would be greatly appreciated. I tested the cybernauts email and nothing came through, so there may be another problem....Like I need one more <sigh> Thanks Shirley [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Jul 26, 2010 7:45:45 PM] |
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cswchan
Advanced Cruncher Canada Joined: Nov 24, 2005 Post Count: 144 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Initial problem sounds like the lappy is over heating. This can be cured by blowing out the dust from the inside through all the various orifices of the laptop... usually with compressed air. A vacuum cleaner would not wotk here. If you turn the laptop on it's top, you will see various openings (slats) also on the back (where the hinges are). Just use the compressed air liberally in these openings.
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Dataman
Ace Cruncher Joined: Nov 16, 2004 Post Count: 4865 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I agree, the major problem is heat. Get a can of compressed gas used for cleaning. Also make sure the fan is running. Once the heat gets stable, some of your problems may go away. Set your task bar to "always remain on top" so you don't "lose"it.
---------------------------------------- After that, let us know what problems remain.  EDIT: You might want to load a free copy of CoreTemp to see you CPU temps. http://www.alcpu.com/CoreTemp/  [Edit 1 times, last edit by Dataman at Jul 26, 2010 2:36:52 PM] |
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cswchan
Advanced Cruncher Canada Joined: Nov 24, 2005 Post Count: 144 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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My AMDs run at around 57 - 61 C
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
uhoh....I can't follow directions. I did the compressed air with the laptop off. I am online with the laptop but still using a backdoor approach, my taskbar is not working. some aps are not working because the computer can't find the .dll thingy. I don't think my fan is running with me online...it sounds different. a little crackling but not the usual fan sound.
I am going to try to redownload the grid now...wish me luck!! |
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