Welcome to the club for MS computer problems! I have had trouble since buying a laptop with Vista loaded - with continuing problems I bought Win7 and installed it on laptop and desktop. Now both are having problems. The desktop won't talk to the printer and cannot find the speakers. I've loaded drivers, ran various makl/spy/AV programs - everything was clean. The 2 won't talk on the LAN anymore either. XP worked great and I'm on the verge of putting all back on XP and giving up on the new laptop. Don't know how long I could do that though -
Also, XP doesn't have HD drivers for SATA HDs and MS deliberately made it difficult to install them. (IMO) Next time I need a computer I'll look at alternatives but for now I'm stuck. I'm using 3 email systems to try and get all of my mail. I've probably wasted 40 hours working on these computers during December..... so far. Maybe I'll install Unbuntu - wish they had found a better name - Oh well, all I can do is keep struggling. I asked MS for help and they said things like "make sure the power button is on:" real helpful. Like you, my desktop would not fully launch Win7 - it got to a spot and then decided to start over. I ran Chkdsk and it found a couple of bad spoton the HD and supposedly fixed them. So i have bought a new larger int'l HD and a 1TB ext HD for backups. (to add to the 500GB Ext HD) I am also using Carbonite but find their restores less than what I wanted. I will probably not renew my subscription. Oh well, 2011 is almost here! On a positive note, Kaleb said he'd look at the door actuator mechanism/lock-tumbler assy to see how they are held together for me - hopefully he will say they are held with a pin I can replace so I can out the door handle tumbler assy back in - mine came out with the key recent;y amnd I cannpot find any images of the mechanism. It's not the easiest thing to disassemble either - Happy New Year! LarryT 91 300D Let your engine tell you how healthy it is! Visit www.youroil.net For Inexpensive Oil Test Kits! ----- Original Message ----- From: R A Bennell <b...@mts.net> To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Sent: Fri, 31 Dec 2010 17:33:02 -0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT - computer issues Did that last evening. Ran both of the tests in BIOS - hard drive and ram tests say they are both fine. Tried to repair Windows again but it worked away for a long while and then told me that Windows was unable to repair itself. Downloaded a utility and wiped the hard drive clean. By then it was late so I put it off for today. Later today, I will try re-installing Windows Vista and see what happens. Thanks for your help. Will let you know what happens but probably not before Monday as I am in the office and do not access this email address from home. Happy New Year! Randy On 30/12/2010 5:02 PM, LWB250 wrote: > That brings up another possibility. Memory (RAM) problems can also manifest > themselves when the system boots. > > Fire it up. > > Push F10 repeatedly until the BIOS screen comes up. > > Wander around in the BIOS and find the hard drive and memory tests, and run > both. > > If both pass, do an F9 (I think) and reset all of the BIOS settings to > default. > > Reboot. > > See what happens and report back. > > Dan > > --- On Thu, 12/30/10, Curt Raymond wrote: > >> From: Curt Raymond >> Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT - computer issues >> To: "Diesel List" >> Date: Thursday, December 30, 2010, 4:04 PM >> Unfortunately on some (most?) newer >> machines XP is not an option. My dad had wanted to put XP on >> theirs until I googled it, everybody who has tried reports >> lousy results. Instead I bought them 2GB of RAM (up from >> 512MB) and they're happy. >> >> Randy, >> Does your machine have a restore partition? Lots of HPs do, >> look for it during boot up something like "F12 for restore". >> That'll reinstall Vista for you the quick way. >> >> -Curt >> >> Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2010 14:09:06 -0600 >> From: Dieselhead<126die...@gmail.com> >> To: Mercedes Discussion List >> Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT - computer issues >> Message-ID: >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; >> format="flowed" >> >> I agree with everything Dan said except that I would load >> the XP and >> run that. If you don't have an XPSP4 disk, it takes a >> long time to >> download and install all the updates. But then you don't >> have the >> Wista crapola. I'd not spend any money on winders 7 >> until/unless you >> know the machine works, and then only if you really want it >> for some >> reason. >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> > > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
