computer crashed

Good luck, Edgar. I know how frustrating that can be. I felt a bit LOST when I was cut off from my A2K buddies. At least your wife has a computer.

Good luck, Edgar. I know how frustrating that can be. I felt a bit LOST when I was cut off from my A2K buddies. At least your wife has a computer.

edgar, Do you have a computer repair shop that charges about $49 to check it out for you? Otherwise, I'm as ignorant about computers as most people. Maybe timber can help you. Good luck.

Don't know yet, CI. Got to check, but it will be at least Tuesday before I can reasonably expect to get it looked at.

edgar,

until an expert (timber!) arrives, can you post some info about your computer?

what kind how old is it what operating system are you using what were you running when it crashed do you have antivirus software ect

It's an emachine w2646, on windows xp. I started it with some difficulty this morning. Had to press the on butten a few times to get it to turn on. I did a test online for my job, posted on a2k a bit, then shut it down for a while. Same problem starting later. As windows started up, and I clicked on the internet icon, the computer shut down, completely. I tried to restart it for a while, as the last two pages of my current book were not saved. Once, the light behind the start button came on, but nothing else happened. The antivirus expired a few weeks ago, and I haven't found the money to resubscribe as yet.

It's two or three years old, I think. Forgot, exactly.

Try this LINK.

CI
I emailed the guy, to find out if he works in Tomball.

My guess is it is the power supply. Those usually run about $30 to $50.

if you can get it started again try this


click start > open my computer> right click on your hard drive icon (probably c> select properties> select tools> under error checking select check now> select both options available and select start

at this point you will likely get a message that informs you the disk check will start the next time you restart your computer, exit out of that message and then restart your computer, upon restart your computer will go through 5 diagnostic checks some fairly quick a couple are rather long

you could also try using system restore

I spent an hour monkeying with it but it refuses to start up at all now.

bummer

that smiley in my post is weird, i don't know why it's there

Better a smiley than one of those little devils.

true, if you couldn't laugh, eh

It's there because you typed c : ) > (without the spaces I put in)

The : ) is a smiley code.

You referred to drive C and wrote:

The message board software interpreted that as the code for smiley which is colon close paren.

doh, didn't think of that

stupid computer. it should have known i didn't want a smiley there :wink:

Oh, it knew. It is just that it doesn't care. Computers have a mind of their own.