Monday, November 24, 2008

Computer go pffft

My work computer that is. Was misbehaving this morning, then we had the power off for 20 minutes and it refused to POST. Then it finally got to boot and then rebooted itself. It'll boot into Safe mode and Safe mode with Networking (just without the networking) so it's a weird software fault or a hardware error. Either way it's about time I had a new one so time to do some shopping - only debate is whether to go for Vista or try to stick with XP.

Back-ups are okay - and in theory I can yank the HD and plug it into one of those USB cases just annoying - then again it is at least 8 years old.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Just for a giggle, see if you can convince it to perform a filesystem check. That might just fix the problem.

FlipC said...

Won't even POST so...

Ah well I'm looking at the Sony VGN-FW21L from [gasp] PC World for £700 even if they can't determine how much RAM it has or if it's wireless??

It's got Blu-ray and an HDMI connector so my parents can borrow it along with Blu-ray movies if they want ;-)

FlipC said...

Ordered from dabs for £677, 3Gb and a/b/g/n(draft)

Anonymous said...

I thought you said "it'll boot into Safe Mode"?

FlipC said...

It did [emphasis now on past tense]