[pchelpers] Re: Newbie
- From: John Durham <john.modec@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 09:34:43 +1300
Your first problem is possibly just a bad component. If the floppy is
bad (and I've had lots of them), replacement drives are cheap and easy
to get. Best to have a technician look this over though. From some of
the other things you said, it might have other problems, such as a
possible flat battery that's needed to maintain CMOS settings.
The approach could be to disconnect everything but the new floppy,
keyboard and screen, then bring up one thing at a time until the fault
is found. This is open case workbench stuff. Not that difficult if you
know it.
We can walk you through if you like.
Robert Weyer wrote:
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> Hello
> Yes I'm a newbie to this list. And I joined for two reasons....
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> 1. I am a novice when it comes to the workings of computers. =
> Therefore when I have a computer problem, I want to be able to get =
> accurate help. For instance; recently on my back-up computer (which
> =
> was on my personal network), I started having several problems. I =
> suspected a virus of some kind but my virus programs failed to find
> one. =
> Then my floppy drive quit. When I opened my bios and looked my 3 1/2
> =
> floppy did not even show up. I was convinced that some kind of virus
> =
> had infected the computer. So after having made sure I had no
> critical =
> files on this computer, I ran f-disk. Now the computer will not boot.
> =
> The floppy is still gone. It does not register as even being there.
> =
> Then I found out that floppy drives can (and do) go bad. (See Langa =
> List newsletter) now I have a very large desk paper weight.
>
> 2. A friend of mine recommended this list (pchelper) as being run
> by =
> responsible people. Who knows, I might even have met one or more of =
> them on some conventions I have attended for other reasons. (One
> might =
> have been a convention in Australia where my wife and I had the =
> privilege of touring New Zealand en route to the convention in
> Brisbane. =
> Then on to Sydney where we also gained new friends that we had never
> =
> met before.
>
> Any way, I need help with various computer problems as they occur.
> =
> For instance; my cd-rom drive and an older Canon printer just quit. A
> =
> new printer is on my shopping list, no problem. But my cd-rom, that
> is =
> a different problem. I need that for research all the time. I have =
> need to access one disk every week. When I try to use it an error =
> message appears that says the device is not ready. I do not know what
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> to do. I do not want to buy a new computer right now. Is the
> simplest =
> solution to just buy a new cd-rom drive and hope?
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> Bob Weyer
> Amarillo, Tx USA
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