Ready To SCREAM!!!

Vent Alert! VENT ALERT!!!
I off-loaded some photos this afternoon and after removing them from my camera my computer went into a reboot. All by its lonesome. I finally when it hung there asking for a reboot file (CD or whatever), did a shut off button and then start. In 30 minutes it rebooted itself about 4 times. So I FINALLY called my brother the computer geek in Florida (he is a programmer) and he said why didn't you call me before the kid started on it. Truth to tell, I never thought of it - we had a new computer store in town so I used him.
Long and short of it, my brother tells me I have an operating system problem. I need to reinstall windows 7. I have no idea what CDs I have and do not have. AND with the money I have shelled out in the last month - I could have bought a new computer. The 2 problems hanging over me at the moment are transcribing my Council minutes but #1 is inputting my checkbooks into Quicken so I can get my taxes done. Praying the system will stay up long enough to do it. Pray for me. I am going to need it! The last time it died on me, NOTHING was running!!! It has been up a whole 5 minutes now. Woohoo!!

Oh boy. Computer problems are the worst thing because you just can't see what's wrong.

Well, hopefully you can clear it all up. Show your son the Chrome Remote Access utility and he should be able to log in and see your screen as well.

Im sorry your having such horrible computer problems. Have you thought about switching over to a Mac? I own 3 of them. One is 4 years old and I have never had a problem with any of them. If yours finally gives up it might be worth a try to look at one.

Have someone who comes recommended coming to get the tower tomorrow. I asked my brother about remote entry andhe has not done it. He recommends a restore of the OS. This guy is going to do diagnostics first to see if the old hard disk did indeed as my brother thinks, corrupted the new one with a burp in the OS. Will go from there. may end up with buying a new computer. Crossing fingers. It died right after I hit save on the topic post. 5 min is all I have.
Combing through checkbooks to do taxes with pencil and adding maching. UGH!

Hope things go better for you today, I had to do a "restore" on one of mine yesterday. Maybe you need a backup computer as well as a backup drive?

gillumhouse said:

Have someone who comes recommended coming to get the tower tomorrow. I asked my brother about remote entry andhe has not done it. He recommends a restore of the OS. This guy is going to do diagnostics first to see if the old hard disk did indeed as my brother thinks, corrupted the new one with a burp in the OS. Will go from there. may end up with buying a new computer. Crossing fingers. It died right after I hit save on the topic post. 5 min is all I have.
Combing through checkbooks to do taxes with pencil and adding maching. UGH!.

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To be honest, I won't let any of my computer clients buy a tower anymore. It's so much easier with a laptop. Even my dad... worst case scenario, he ships me the laptop and I fix it and ship it back. Towers are too bulky. I do recommend that people get a screen to plug into their laptop, though, if they want more "space" and a larger screen. So, I have my laptop closed on my desk with an external keyboard, mouse and screen. Just have to remember to configure it not to sleep when closed.

Eric Arthur Blair said:

gillumhouse said:

Have someone who comes recommended coming to get the tower tomorrow. I asked my brother about remote entry andhe has not done it. He recommends a restore of the OS. This guy is going to do diagnostics first to see if the old hard disk did indeed as my brother thinks, corrupted the new one with a burp in the OS. Will go from there. may end up with buying a new computer. Crossing fingers. It died right after I hit save on the topic post. 5 min is all I have.
Combing through checkbooks to do taxes with pencil and adding maching. UGH!.

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To be honest, I won't let any of my computer clients buy a tower anymore. It's so much easier with a laptop. Even my dad... worst case scenario, he ships me the laptop and I fix it and ship it back. Towers are too bulky. I do recommend that people get a screen to plug into their laptop, though, if they want more "space" and a larger screen. So, I have my laptop closed on my desk with an external keyboard, mouse and screen. Just have to remember to configure it not to sleep when closed.
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Eric Arthur Blair said:

I have my laptop closed on my desk with an external keyboard, mouse and screen.

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Same here. I bought a small laptop so it's easy to travel with, and at home I just plug in the regular keyboard, monitor and mouse. It's the way to go. Since USB hubs came along, it's easy to use a laptop with printers, external speakers, external DVD drive, etc. Everything that's built into a tower can be plugged into a USB hub connected to the laptop these days. So nice.

Arkansawyer said:

Eric Arthur Blair said:

gillumhouse said:

Have someone who comes recommended coming to get the tower tomorrow. I asked my brother about remote entry andhe has not done it. He recommends a restore of the OS. This guy is going to do diagnostics first to see if the old hard disk did indeed as my brother thinks, corrupted the new one with a burp in the OS. Will go from there. may end up with buying a new computer. Crossing fingers. It died right after I hit save on the topic post. 5 min is all I have.
Combing through checkbooks to do taxes with pencil and adding maching. UGH!.

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To be honest, I won't let any of my computer clients buy a tower anymore. It's so much easier with a laptop. Even my dad... worst case scenario, he ships me the laptop and I fix it and ship it back. Towers are too bulky. I do recommend that people get a screen to plug into their laptop, though, if they want more "space" and a larger screen. So, I have my laptop closed on my desk with an external keyboard, mouse and screen. Just have to remember to configure it not to sleep when closed.
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Eric Arthur Blair said:

I have my laptop closed on my desk with an external keyboard, mouse and screen.

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Same here. I bought a small laptop so it's easy to travel with, and at home I just plug in the regular keyboard, monitor and mouse. It's the way to go. Since USB hubs came along, it's easy to use a laptop with printers, external speakers, external DVD drive, etc. Everything that's built into a tower can be plugged into a USB hub connected to the laptop these days. So nice.
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Printers need a connection? Gone wifi! DVD drive? People still use those?

Well I think it is another desktop. Will know when it gets here. Pulled taxes out of checkbook manually. Was not as bad as I feared - did not have to write down anything that was just family - usually enter entire checkbooks. Went to City Hall today and did my Minutes. The loaner is giving me the hard disk error messages I got that started this whole mess!! At least I can get in the Internet. That is all that counts right now. I missed you folks!!!