Bootmgr missing

[Rik]

I'd never charge.

[cavillas]

Other then food of some description. 

[Rik]

I usually bring my own, Alf.

[Technical Ben]

It's one of those things. Like car repairs. It could be they did a good job. It could be they fixed a single bolt and charged you for a new alternator... 
Finding a honest firm is hard it seems.

[pctech]

Once I'm able to hit the road I may look into doing computer repairs as a small sideline as I'm truly fed up with people being ripped off for the most basic of stuff.

[Moonshine]

I'd never charge.

Ah, but I'd never not pay. 

[Moonshine]

It's one of those things. Like car repairs. It could be they did a good job. It could be they fixed a single bolt and charged you for a new alternator... 
Finding a honest firm is hard it seems.

Very true indeed.  I've had that same problem with car mechanics, funnily enough!

[Moonshine]

Once I'm able to hit the road I may look into doing computer repairs as a small sideline as I'm truly fed up with people being ripped off for the most basic of stuff.

If only there was a niche in the market for poetry and prose.....it's about the only thing I'm any good at as a sideline!!!

[Rik]

Contact Hallmark?

[Moonshine]

Contact Hallmark?

Not sure Hallmark would appreciate my type of poetry....it can be quite dark, melancholy and satirical.  Not for the light-hearted, perhaps!  However, here's a little ditty to end the evening (blimey, is that the time?!), though I'm not much of a rhyming poet as you'll notice!:-

Switched on to a shocking blue screen
Something frankly I seldom have seen
I then frantically pressed
Lots of keys, but you guessed
My laptop was still bright blue in sheen.

I rebooted and thought "Blimey, I'm stuck...
Boot Manager's Missing, oh ****"
Screen turned black from sheer blue
Not a clue what to do.......
Sod's law, now I'm down on my luck.

To cut a long story down to a tale
The memory's faulty, thus a fail
Wish I understood why
"It's a year old", I sigh
Should never have bought 'Packup' Bell.

There's a moral to this little rhyme
If you ever should feel so inclined
If you need a new PC
Don't part with your dosh, see
Consult IDNetters next time.

[pctech]

Very good

[Simon]

 

[Rik]

 

[Ray]

 

[pctech]

I previously owned a Packard Bell desktop machine which seemed to quite literally eat CPU cooling fans.

Following that I had a Fujitsu Siemens system which I'm convinced had an issue with its hard disk controller but I could never get them to agree to a motherboard replacement.

From that moment on I swore I'd never buy an off the shelf system again.

In terms of laptops the best ones I've seen are the IBM (now Lenovo) Thinkpad and Toshiba Satellite Pro, I used to be responsible for a whole collection of Tosh SPs which were handed out to teenage kids with special educational needs, at that time they were built like tanks and the only thing I had to do was rebuild the Windows install every so often they were that good.

[Moonshine]

Hi all

My son's laptop is now working again.    Many thanks to all who contributed to this post.

Thank you for my karma and karmics, by the way.  I've no idea what to do with them, but they sound good! 

Moonshine.

[Rik]

Grill and serve with a Bearnaise sauce.

[D-Dan]

I am always going to struggle with the simplest of computer issues

You know, whenever I hear someone say that I always get the feeling that it's because PC Geeks always spent a lot of time making computers seem hard back in the earlier days (and if you are old to have done CSE you are old enough to remember). It's all about mindset and perspective. Modern computer hardware is little more than a jigsaw for all practical purposes. You don't need to understand electronics, and you don't need a degree in quantum physics. All you really need is to be able to fit an edge into a slot most of the time (Of course matching the correct edge to the correct slot, or even finding the slot can be a little time consuming if you are trying for the first time, but you'd be surprised how quickly you can become familiar with what is a limited choice anyway.

Computers are no different that a screwdriver in many respects. They are a tool. Try sitting in front of yours for a while and repeat over and over to it, "You are a tool, you are a tool". You'll be surprised how the fear vanishes after a fairly short stint of that (and there's something rather satisfying in telling something it's a tool safe in the knowledge that it won't argue with you, unlike when I said it to that big bloke down at the pub .......)

[Rik]

Mind you, you need the screwdriver to open the computer rather than vice versa, Steve. I agree with you though, computers have acquired a mystic complexity which they don't deserve. If you can plug in the monitor, printer and mains, you can also plug in a card or memory module. I always say to people that they should remember that computers are so dumb that they only know how to recognise 0 & 1.

[Simon]

Then again, I know of people like that. 

[Rik]

 

[Glenn]

Building computers, I had to build my calculator, it may have been an abacus for some here. 

[Rik]

Was that Shirley Abacus, well known singer in the 50s & 60s? 

[Moonshine]

Computers are no different that a screwdriver in many respects. They are a tool. Try sitting in front of yours for a while and repeat over and over to it, "You are a tool, you are a tool".

My computer often says that to me.....!

[cavillas]

Computers are no different that a screwdriver in many respects. They are a tool. Try sitting in front of yours for a while and repeat over and over to it, "You are a tool, you are a tool".

My computer often says that to me.....!

You sure it says "tool" and not"fool".