collapse

Author Topic: Help for technical issues on your PC  (Read 114392 times)


Offline Ellirium113

  • Global Moderator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 2255
  • Gold 335
  • We are here
Re: Help for technical issues on your PC
« Reply #151 on: March 31, 2013, 09:23:58 am »
Incidentally after I had the problem with the logitech mouse I am still running an older one but with just the driver installed and have not had any issues since.

There is a plethora of issues with this logitech software that has cropped up over the last year...just google "logitech setpoint software screwing up my pc" and watch the hits.

Offline 1Worldwatcher

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 1454
  • Gold 145
  • "Why are we all here? Because we ain't all there!"
    • Inception Radio Live-Chat
Re: Help for technical issues on your PC
« Reply #152 on: March 31, 2013, 09:25:15 am »
Ok Ellirium and the rest of you helping here, will definitely be saving that Manual, never had one with this PC, was lost in the shuffle, and always wanted one.. ;)

Will go and try these ideas, then will hopefully be back online post haste, Thanks againg for all your peoples help. It is a very frustrating situation, as I am sure you know.

1WW
"To know men is too have knowledge, to know self is to have insight."

Offline Pimander

  • Global Moderator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 4994
  • Gold 368
Re: Help for technical issues on your PC
« Reply #153 on: March 31, 2013, 09:36:19 am »
If you went blue screen during hardware set up then there is every chance a driver file was corrupted when writing.  Uninstalling and reinstalling the driver should fix that though..   Have you managed to get any USB device to work properly yet?


ETA: I'd love to get my hands on your PC armed with a diagnostic bootable disk.
« Last Edit: March 31, 2013, 09:38:44 am by Pimander »

Offline Ellirium113

  • Global Moderator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 2255
  • Gold 335
  • We are here
Re: Help for technical issues on your PC
« Reply #154 on: March 31, 2013, 09:42:22 am »
Ok Ellirium and the rest of you helping here, will definitely be saving that Manual, never had one with this PC, was lost in the shuffle, and always wanted one.. ;)

Will go and try these ideas, then will hopefully be back online post haste, Thanks againg for all your peoples help. It is a very frustrating situation, as I am sure you know.

1WW

Ensure you can install as many of the OEM Dell drivers as you need BEFORE updating to SP2 or 3 to ensure that these are known to windows before it tries and configures itself around a generic failsafe mode because it can't ID your hardware.  ;)

Offline ArMaP

  • Administrator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 13171
  • Gold 770
Re: Help for technical issues on your PC
« Reply #155 on: March 31, 2013, 09:54:45 am »
I think we may be giving too much information at the same time to 1Worldwatcher, so I will stop for now. :)

Offline Back

  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 471
  • Gold 95
Re: Help for technical issues on your PC
« Reply #156 on: March 31, 2013, 10:34:33 am »
I dont mean to but in. I was wondering is the Linux Mint a whole suite? I have an old Dell setting here with a new HD in it and I dont have the install disk. It will run Fedoea.

Bless
Shawn

Offline Pimander

  • Global Moderator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 4994
  • Gold 368
Re: Help for technical issues on your PC
« Reply #157 on: March 31, 2013, 11:00:50 am »
Linux Mint is the Linux Operating system with a desktop that looks like Windows (MATE, which is an updated gnome).  I think it has office programs and web browser (Firefox) etc out of the box too.

Fedora is OK too.  If you are into programming and such like Fedora is probably more  fun (tries out new technologies sooner) but if if you just want to use your PC Mint "just works".... Mint has stuff like media codecs already installed so you can go straight onto the web and watch video and play music etc.....

Best of all, hardly any worries about Malware.  Nearly all software is free and open source too.  And you won't be paying Microsoft to create a slower less stable operating system as it is free unlike Windows.
« Last Edit: March 31, 2013, 11:05:10 am by Pimander »

Offline zorgon

  • Administrator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 21309
  • Gold 903
Re: Help for technical issues on your PC
« Reply #158 on: March 31, 2013, 11:22:23 am »
Thanks Ellirium, will try that command in "Safe Mode" and see if it works (Is this through the 'RUN' option Ellirium or command prompt?), one thing is for sure, money is not available for me as of right now, Damn insurance companies!!  >:(

[ C:/FORMAT C: ] is a DOS command  You need to be in the black screen DOS prompt. But formatting C will not restore it to factory 'default' it will erase the drive. I suppose a blank HD is technically 'factory default' but I don't thing that is what you want to do as you will lose everything on the drive including the OS

Do you have a copy of Windows? If so formatting the drive and staring from scratch would fix it, but again you will lose all other files on the disk

Sounds like your friend installed a different version of windows over top an older one. He could have installed it as a second OS then you would have had an option to select which version to boot.



Offline zorgon

  • Administrator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 21309
  • Gold 903
Re: Help for technical issues on your PC
« Reply #159 on: March 31, 2013, 11:24:16 am »
Linux Mint is the Linux Operating system with a desktop that looks like Windows (MATE, which is an updated gnome).  I think it has office programs and web browser (Firefox) etc out of the box too.

Can it handle Microsoft Office, Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Photoshop?

Offline Pimander

  • Global Moderator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 4994
  • Gold 368
Re: Help for technical issues on your PC
« Reply #160 on: March 31, 2013, 11:44:45 am »
Can it handle Microsoft Office, Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Photoshop?
It has LibreOffice., GIMP and a reader which all do the same thing and handle the same file types

Offline zorgon

  • Administrator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 21309
  • Gold 903
Re: Help for technical issues on your PC
« Reply #161 on: March 31, 2013, 11:51:15 am »
I think we may be giving too much information at the same time to 1Worldwatcher, so I will stop for now. :)

yeah no sh!t :P

No one told him that formatting c drive will wipe out all info. I suppose everyone assumed he knew that but since he asked where to type that command in RUN or command prompt) and said he was trying to reset factory defaults using format, my guess would be he DOESN'T know it would wipe the drive

Offline zorgon

  • Administrator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 21309
  • Gold 903
Re: Help for technical issues on your PC
« Reply #162 on: March 31, 2013, 12:03:48 pm »
It has LibreOffice., GIMP and a reader which all do the same thing and handle the same file types

Fine and dandy for home use.. but won't work for school or work situations as online courses require those programs. The business world and the art colleges use the MS and Adobe software as industry standard...


Offline ArMaP

  • Administrator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 13171
  • Gold 770
Re: Help for technical issues on your PC
« Reply #163 on: March 31, 2013, 12:08:29 pm »
It has LibreOffice., GIMP and a reader which all do the same thing and handle the same file types
Translation: Office files - it depends, Photoshop files - not really, Acrobat files - yes. ;D

Offline Ellirium113

  • Global Moderator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 2255
  • Gold 335
  • We are here
Re: Help for technical issues on your PC
« Reply #164 on: March 31, 2013, 01:20:38 pm »
yeah no sh!t :P

No one told him that formatting c drive will wipe out all info. I suppose everyone assumed he knew that but since he asked where to type that command in RUN or command prompt) and said he was trying to reset factory defaults using format, my guess would be he DOESN'T know it would wipe the drive

I assumed he already knew what that meant and he DID have a windows CD so I was thinking he was wanting to reformat and try again.  :P If it was not allowing him into the boot menu for the CD it might be that the drive priority in the BIOS is set to boot HD first and so long as windows boots it will not boot from cd. This has to be changed in the BIOS to have the cd drive set as the 1st boot device.

 


Wal-Mart.com USA, LLC
affiliate_link
Free Click Tracking
Wal-Mart.com USA, LLC

* Recent Posts

Re: kits to feed your family for a year by Shasta56
[March 17, 2024, 12:40:48 pm]


Re: kits to feed your family for a year by space otter
[March 16, 2024, 08:45:27 pm]


Re: kits to feed your family for a year by Shasta56
[March 16, 2024, 07:24:38 pm]


Re: kits to feed your family for a year by space otter
[March 16, 2024, 10:41:21 am]


Re: Full Interview - Lance Corporal Jonathan Weygandt (1997) by RUSSO
[March 12, 2024, 07:22:56 pm]


Re: Full Interview - Lance Corporal Jonathan Weygandt (1997) by RUSSO
[March 09, 2024, 03:25:56 am]


Re: Full Interview - Lance Corporal Jonathan Weygandt (1997) by RUSSO
[March 09, 2024, 02:33:38 am]


Re: Music You Love by RUSSO
[March 09, 2024, 01:10:22 am]


Re: The Man Who Built UFOs For The CIA (Not Bob Lazar!) by RUSSO
[March 09, 2024, 12:14:14 am]


Re: Full Interview - Lance Corporal Jonathan Weygandt (1997) by RUSSO
[March 09, 2024, 12:08:46 am]


Re: A peculiar stone in DeForest by Canine
[March 03, 2024, 11:54:22 am]


Re: The Man Who Built UFOs For The CIA (Not Bob Lazar!) by kevin
[March 03, 2024, 11:30:06 am]


Re: The Man Who Built UFOs For The CIA (Not Bob Lazar!) by kevin
[March 03, 2024, 11:21:15 am]


Re: The Man Who Built UFOs For The CIA (Not Bob Lazar!) by kevin
[March 03, 2024, 11:16:05 am]


Re: Music You Love by RUSSO
[March 02, 2024, 07:58:09 pm]


Re: Full Interview - Lance Corporal Jonathan Weygandt (1997) by RUSSO
[March 02, 2024, 07:50:59 pm]


Re: The Man Who Built UFOs For The CIA (Not Bob Lazar!) by RUSSO
[March 02, 2024, 07:43:03 pm]


Re: The Man Who Built UFOs For The CIA (Not Bob Lazar!) by RUSSO
[March 02, 2024, 07:41:30 pm]


Re: The Man Who Built UFOs For The CIA (Not Bob Lazar!) by kevin
[March 01, 2024, 11:54:23 am]


Re: The Man Who Built UFOs For The CIA (Not Bob Lazar!) by kevin
[March 01, 2024, 11:34:15 am]

affiliate_link