Computer frustrations

Just when you think things are sorted the company goes crazy! Instead of waiting until I am home from the USA (as arranged) to send the PC back they set it in motion to be delivered today. I rang them yesterday and they said they would stop it and send it per original agreement. Today I get an email from the delivery company to say it has been delivered and left in outbuildings. As I don't have any outbuildings this was a bit worrying! Fortunately I have good neighbours and they we need and checked and found it had been left in the open under a verandah with snow falling.

So the computer company sent it when they shouldn't have and the delivery company did not get a signature as they should. I am hoping that my neighbour and her husband will have got it safely into our house by now - as long as the companies haven't tried to correct their error!

1DisneyNut;2497231 wrote: No, windows is on the hard drive along with all your files so you should be good to go right out of the box.

Assuming they didn't do a dreaded reset as many pc companies often do...

:horror:

Since they replaced the motherboard, my guess is they found a weak, flaky decoupling (bypass) capacitor. These can work fine for awhile, then cause a short, or a semi-short (for lack of a better term) and pull down the supply voltage to components on the board. After the voltage is removed from the cap, it "relaxes" and will work again for awhile until it repeats the failure. I've seen this many times in my EE career, and it's a toughie to diagnose & correct on a PC motherboard as there are literally dozens of these caps on the board.

On a side note - Is Figaro enjoying the trip?

brad192;2497421 wrote:

On a side note - Is Figaro enjoying the trip?

He certainly seems to be! :party:

Mr. Toot gave me a brand new Dell laptop for
Christmas -- cant do more than 2 or 3 things
on the internet without it freezing and having
to restart it - so frustrating!! For the life
of me, I can't figure out why!!!

Touch wood - computer seems to be working fine!

I spoke too soon. Computer is going back again tomorrow. It died at lunchtime. The power supply gives a sad little click instead of starting. Wonder if it was the cause of the problems all along or whether it has been damaged in all the transport up and down the country. Sigh. :(

Yup, the power supply was dead. Maybe it was the problem all along. Who knows. PC should be back today. Overall the trips it has had new Ram, new motherboard and new power supply. Hopefully they will all play nicely together now and I won't have nay more problems! :fingers:

My iMac has been a little sluggish the last year or so. This thread somewhat inspired me to do something about it. To be fair, it's about 7 years old.

I installed additional memory in January. I went from 4GB to 12GB of RAM. That helped only slightly. A friend of mine suggested I do a clean sweep and reinstall the OS. I did that Monday. Wow, what a difference! Between the increased RAM and clean install, it's like I have a brand new computer. I hope when you get yours back, you'll feel the same way! :cloud9:

It's back and it has started up and seems to be behaving.... Ask me in a week - lol

dlpmikki;2498327 wrote: It's back and it has started up and seems to be behaving.... Ask me in a week - lol

I hope this was the end of your computer issues!!

Linda aka: Faline
INTERCOT Staff: Vacation Planning,Trip Reports and Disney Camping
faline@intercot.com

 

faline;2498335 wrote: I hope this was the end of your computer issues!!

So do I!

Has the PC made it through March ? :badpc: