Whoa! That's dialup speeds! Do you have a phone line into your house? My speed is nothing special...It's not even ADSL2.Originally Posted by wild98
Whoa! That's dialup speeds! Do you have a phone line into your house? My speed is nothing special...It's not even ADSL2.
Hi Toddrhind,mate I know how frustrating it can be. My touch pad and keyboard lock up all the time on my lappy, I can't really be bothered trying 2 fix it anymore, It freezes..........I restart it..............It freezes...........I restart it.............its a never ended cycle
Sounds like the operating system is locking up or at least the HDD may be having trouble.
I'm assuming you are running Windows XP or Win7? If so, run the following instructions:
1. Click on START and choose RUN
2. Type "CMD" (without the quotation marks) and press the enter key. This will open the command prompt.
3. At the flashing cursor, type "CHKDSK /R" (without the quotation marks) and press the enter key. It will say :
The type of the file system is NTFS.
Cannot lock current drive.
Chkdsk cannot run because the volume is in use by another
process. Would you like to schedule this volume to be
checked the next time the system restarts? (Y/N)
4. Press the "Y" key and then press the enter key.
5. Now restart the computer.
Check Disk will run when Windows restarts and will run 5 different checks on the hard drive. Here is a link to the explanation of what this program does http://support.microsoft.com/kb/187941
In a nutshell, chkdsk /r will check the file system, partition tables, Operating system files etc. If it finds any inconsistencies and can repir them, it will.
This program can take a while to run depending on the size of the hard drive and what problems it encounters.
Once the program finishes the computer will continue to boot to Windows and you can log in as normal.
Straight after CHKDSK is completed, run "Disk Defragmenter" to tidy up the files on the HDD.
This is the first step in troubleshooting this type of system failure.
Let me know how you go.
Cheers,
Rob
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Thanks for the advice guys, have phone line but young fella runs off that and it's upstairs, might look into running off his net with USB connection or upgrade mine.
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If he 'arks up', just remind him who wears the pants and who pays ther bills in your house. lol
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You should be able to hang off his network with either a Ethernet network connection, or a wireless setup. Does his modem have some spare ports on it or is it wireless? Is your PC a desktop or a laptop?
I got a lappy mate and he has a spare wireless modem as he runs from phone line, he also has unlimited downloads, I only got 8 gig,
Sounds like a plan...hahaha
"Tonka Tuff" 08-GU6, 3.0lt crd, 5 Speed, Turbo Diesel, Hpd, Arb, Ome, MT Baja Atz.
What?! Why don't you run your laptop from his wireless router? Your laptop would have to be ancient not to have wireless built in...
Like I said earlier mate, not to bright with $&@? Like this, please explain. Got a good little lappy, just don't understand all the tech talk
"Tonka Tuff" 08-GU6, 3.0lt crd, 5 Speed, Turbo Diesel, Hpd, Arb, Ome, MT Baja Atz.
Can you get your son to set it up for you?
Thanks for reminding me about that command Rob......... 3 and a bit hrs later and its finally finished, will let you know how it goes.
Cheers
Todd
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