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Monkeyinafryingpan Vice Captain
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 Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 6:07 pm
Hahahahaha, no I'm just saying you like to do the do with Kirby.
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Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 7:42 pm
Monkeyinafryingpan Hahahahaha, no I'm just saying you like to do the do with Kirby. wtf... hes a soft ball and stuff... he might eat me rofl.. wtf seriously.. 
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Monkeyinafryingpan Vice Captain
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Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 12:57 pm
That guy is gonna give me nightmares....
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Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 3:46 pm
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Monkeyinafryingpan Vice Captain
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Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 3:19 pm
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
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Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 10:18 pm
rofl wtf is that guy doing anyway?
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Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 6:22 pm
Neep. I feel like an idiot asking this, since I tend to be the one answering computer questions. But, it simply can't be helped. Have fun trying to solve this, 'cause I've had no luck.
I have a three-year old Dell Inspiron 1000. Yes, the one that's been discontinued... Anyway, it's obviously not very new. It runs Windows XP Home Edition. Thankfully. I had issues with ME.
ANYWAY, that's my basic hardware and OS. Any other necessary details can be supplied as needed.
The problem is the disk drive. Of late, it's been extremely unreliable, and will only detect a disk about twelve percent of the time. Yes, I tested. Many times. So I know that it works, because it does sometimes. Just not all the time, as I'd like it to. So I've been attempting to install a certain game that has five install disks. Don't ask which game, as it's not part of the issue. Problem is, with the low success rate on the disk reading, it'll stop about halfway through the second disk. And no, the disks aren't flawed; trust me, I've tested them on a different computer.
So I know that the problem lies in the disk drive hardware. The software (driver) is fine, and it's been updated from the Dell website just in case. It just has issues reading disks, and will often fail in the middle of a disk (it took me three tries to get my Death Cab for Cutie CD onto iTunes...).
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Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 4:46 pm
Bacillus Anthracis Neep. I feel like an idiot asking this, since I tend to be the one answering computer questions. But, it simply can't be helped. Have fun trying to solve this, 'cause I've had no luck.
I have a three-year old Dell Inspiron 1000. Yes, the one that's been discontinued... Anyway, it's obviously not very new. It runs Windows XP Home Edition. Thankfully. I had issues with ME.
ANYWAY, that's my basic hardware and OS. Any other necessary details can be supplied as needed.
The problem is the disk drive. Of late, it's been extremely unreliable, and will only detect a disk about twelve percent of the time. Yes, I tested. Many times. So I know that it works, because it does sometimes. Just not all the time, as I'd like it to. So I've been attempting to install a certain game that has five install disks. Don't ask which game, as it's not part of the issue. Problem is, with the low success rate on the disk reading, it'll stop about halfway through the second disk. And no, the disks aren't flawed; trust me, I've tested them on a different computer.
So I know that the problem lies in the disk drive hardware. The software (driver) is fine, and it's been updated from the Dell website just in case. It just has issues reading disks, and will often fail in the middle of a disk (it took me three tries to get my Death Cab for Cutie CD onto iTunes...). well.. that happens to my disk drive too, but most of the time they work, its an old one so i bought another disk drive and it works perfect, just get a new disk drive, the laser in it is probally scratched or something
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Monkeyinafryingpan Vice Captain
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Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 6:09 pm
Bacillus Anthracis Neep. I feel like an idiot asking this, since I tend to be the one answering computer questions. But, it simply can't be helped. Have fun trying to solve this, 'cause I've had no luck.
I have a three-year old Dell Inspiron 1000. Yes, the one that's been discontinued... Anyway, it's obviously not very new. It runs Windows XP Home Edition. Thankfully. I had issues with ME.
ANYWAY, that's my basic hardware and OS. Any other necessary details can be supplied as needed.
The problem is the disk drive. Of late, it's been extremely unreliable, and will only detect a disk about twelve percent of the time. Yes, I tested. Many times. So I know that it works, because it does sometimes. Just not all the time, as I'd like it to. So I've been attempting to install a certain game that has five install disks. Don't ask which game, as it's not part of the issue. Problem is, with the low success rate on the disk reading, it'll stop about halfway through the second disk. And no, the disks aren't flawed; trust me, I've tested them on a different computer.
So I know that the problem lies in the disk drive hardware. The software (driver) is fine, and it's been updated from the Dell website just in case. It just has issues reading disks, and will often fail in the middle of a disk (it took me three tries to get my Death Cab for Cutie CD onto iTunes...). Does it grind the discs? Like make weird noises when you put some of the discs in or spin them really fastly?
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Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2007 5:18 pm
Noope, it just doesn't read them. Period.
Not that it's a particular issue any more. My hard drive's toast (rather literally, I'm afraid; the fan went down one night, and it overheated), and it's not fixable. The hard drive I mean. If I REALLY wanted to, I could replace the fan, and the hard drive, but for a piece of s**t like my computer, it's not worth the money. So I'm currently computer-less, save for the family computer.
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Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 3:41 pm
Zyrin Adrian What's the best way to destroy an emochines? (emachines=emochines) XDXDXD...I did Tech support for these...that and Gateway...my advice...SMASH IT WITH A HAMMER and buy a decent computer lol. EDIT: yes...i just watched emperors new groove yesterday, and that IS why i said "SMASH IT WITH A HAMMER"...love that movie.
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Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 3:50 pm
Bacillus Anthracis Noope, it just doesn't read them. Period.
Not that it's a particular issue any more. My hard drive's toast (rather literally, I'm afraid; the fan went down one night, and it overheated), and it's not fixable. The hard drive I mean. If I REALLY wanted to, I could replace the fan, and the hard drive, but for a piece of s**t like my computer, it's not worth the money. So I'm currently computer-less, save for the family computer. You sure it is not just the CPU and motherboard or maybe the RAM that is toast? The hard drive itself might be salvageable. If you have not thrown it away yet you should keep it. If you get another laptop with the same size/type screen, and if it ever breaks, you may be able to replace it with that old one (if you can figure out how lol...not that hard, just got to be careful not to break the casing.)
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Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 7:50 pm
Nope, it's the hard drive. Tested it in a friend's computer, just to be sure. And anyway, the fan's not been working properly for a while.
I'm getting a Mac. This is the second computer that's copped out on me. One was my brother's fault, as he decided to remove the motherboard (WHY is utterly beyond me), attempted to put it back wrong and it broke. Actually, that's not copping out. That's just called getting broken through stupidity.
This one copped out. The disk drive went first (it's been utterly useless these past two months), then the fan, now the hard drive. The processor's not very good anyway, it's slower than our school computers (and that's saying something), and the most usable RAM you can have is 512 MB.
Basically, it's going to be salvaged for parts. The memory's in good shape, though what anyone would want with a memory stick that's got 128 MB on it is beyond me.
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Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 10:51 pm
Bacillus Anthracis Nope, it's the hard drive. Tested it in a friend's computer, just to be sure. And anyway, the fan's not been working properly for a while.
I'm getting a Mac. This is the second computer that's copped out on me. One was my brother's fault, as he decided to remove the motherboard (WHY is utterly beyond me), attempted to put it back wrong and it broke. Actually, that's not copping out. That's just called getting broken through stupidity.
This one copped out. The disk drive went first (it's been utterly useless these past two months), then the fan, now the hard drive. The processor's not very good anyway, it's slower than our school computers (and that's saying something), and the most usable RAM you can have is 512 MB.
Basically, it's going to be salvaged for parts. The memory's in good shape, though what anyone would want with a memory stick that's got 128 MB on it is beyond me. Not sure what the fan has to do with the hard drive though...the hard drive does not have a fan, and if the other fan went out it would be the processor that would go bad. Also... I would not get a Mac. That sounds like a really bad idea to me.
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