CofyCrakCocaine
09-20-2007, 12:50 PM
I hope this thread title doesn't make it's way to the eyes of Lil' Lenay and Baby Love. But I am seriously disgusted with this hunk of shit computer. It used to be great, now it's just buggier than all fucking hell and now is constantly crashing. I formatted the hard drive, I reinstalled windows, even used a spiffy recovery dvd that came with the computer, and things were honky dorey for less than 3 weeks before the computer starts having the exact same problems that I was trying to fix in the first place. Only now it has two or three other additional bugs and stop errors aka BSODs, and they're more frequent than ever.
Considering I have extensive internet security and antivirus, the clear problem is hardware. It's narrowed down to RAM, System board, CPU or Power supply, but I still haven't the slightest clue how to find out what exactly the problem is. At this point this stupid thing has caused me enough grief to make me become OBSESSED with finding out what exactly the fuggin' problem is with this goddamn shitbox.
The best part of this whole thing is that I know it's not necessarily the computer's fault. I'm the bad Daddy who abuses it and makes it cry out for Mother's proverbial neglected teat that I cruelly deny it from suckling. Or some such shit. I know less than half a dick about the actual internal workings of computers however, I just know how to use them. I know I'm probably at least 50% of the problem, but I have no clue what exactly I'm doing that is the problem since I don't even know what device driver (or whatever) is failing all the time. So I'm useless without help. It's a shame this computer used to have great customer service but got bought out by motherfucking Dell a month after I purchased it and I'm supposed to hand over $50 to have the *privilege* of talking with Abdul Bangalore (he of barely comprehensible English) only to find out that I should open up the box, blow some dust out, and restart and see if that works, and if not, have it sent to the factory to be refurbished for approximately the same amount of money I spent buying the goddamn thing in the first place. Sorry for the book folks, but I'm getting seriously pissed off because this thing has been plaguing for months now and everything I've done has so far turned to shit.
So I guess the first place to start is to figure out how to determine exactly what the problem is. Because at this rate it's just gonna be me running around in circles. So. How do you test out these four components to see what's not up to snuff and needs repairing/replacing?
Considering I have extensive internet security and antivirus, the clear problem is hardware. It's narrowed down to RAM, System board, CPU or Power supply, but I still haven't the slightest clue how to find out what exactly the problem is. At this point this stupid thing has caused me enough grief to make me become OBSESSED with finding out what exactly the fuggin' problem is with this goddamn shitbox.
The best part of this whole thing is that I know it's not necessarily the computer's fault. I'm the bad Daddy who abuses it and makes it cry out for Mother's proverbial neglected teat that I cruelly deny it from suckling. Or some such shit. I know less than half a dick about the actual internal workings of computers however, I just know how to use them. I know I'm probably at least 50% of the problem, but I have no clue what exactly I'm doing that is the problem since I don't even know what device driver (or whatever) is failing all the time. So I'm useless without help. It's a shame this computer used to have great customer service but got bought out by motherfucking Dell a month after I purchased it and I'm supposed to hand over $50 to have the *privilege* of talking with Abdul Bangalore (he of barely comprehensible English) only to find out that I should open up the box, blow some dust out, and restart and see if that works, and if not, have it sent to the factory to be refurbished for approximately the same amount of money I spent buying the goddamn thing in the first place. Sorry for the book folks, but I'm getting seriously pissed off because this thing has been plaguing for months now and everything I've done has so far turned to shit.
So I guess the first place to start is to figure out how to determine exactly what the problem is. Because at this rate it's just gonna be me running around in circles. So. How do you test out these four components to see what's not up to snuff and needs repairing/replacing?