HELP – I hate PC’s

[Kevin Flowers]

Jason
can’t actually help but if you punch them codes in to google hundreds of replies about what you are saying might just help you

Kev

[Jason Davies]

Tried that Kev, thanks though.

Jason

[Mathew Gibson]

Buy a Mac????

[John Wilson]

Is this the laptop? i have a toshiba satellite laptop and had that problem in the past

Funny enough I never fixed it and it just worked the next day strangely enough

Apparently flexi sign is a really good bit of software on a mac for running cutters/plotters

[Joseph Helm]

quote Jason Davies:

I have hone into the BIOS and there does not seem to be a hard disk mounted.

It’s trying to use the boot sequence (1. HDD 2.CD 3.Network)
As it can’t find the first few, it’s tying to boot from the network.

If it’s not showing up the HDD, open the case and unplug it.
Also unplug USB leads, Network cable etc
Boot up, once it gives you an error about no hard drive, shut down.

Plug the HDD back in, and boot up… (works 80% of the time for me)

If that fails, go in to the bios and revert the bios settings back to default.
And try that.

If you still get the error, then it sounds like a hard drive failiure 🙁

Hope it helps

Joe

[Cheryl Smith]

I just had to have the hard drive replaced on my one of these. Im glad i bought the 3 years business next day repair plan as extra.

[David Rowland]

im thinking hard drive failure… google tells me the error message is longer then that

[Jason Davies]

Thanks guys, worked after about three days and has gone again, will drop it off to one of the engineers tomorrow.

Matthew, this is our only work PC, just kept on the side to run Omega, we are completely MAC based fortunately.

[Jason Davies]

Just a quick update, thanks for all the help. The laptop is now in the bin and we have upgraded with a new PC, also upgraded to Omega 3.0 as the usb to parallel would not drive our Edge without the upgrade. All good stuff though.

Jason