PC Shagged?

[mybike]

My thoughts are that it is a problem with the driver, in which case downloading the driver from the manufacturers website and replacing the existing one may produce a result.

What worries me is the 'funny noise' which might point to a hard disk error, Running the hard disk utilities mat help and if there is a problem with the hard disk Spinrite may be a good option.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Have you tried screaming "work you f*cker" at it?

 

[raleighnut]

What worries me is the 'funny noise' which might point to a hard disk error, Running the hard disk utilities mat help and if there is a problem with the hard disk Spinrite may be a good option.

That is what I thought about the 'funny noise', although it could well be a virus.

 

[Vapin' Joe]

Have you tried screaming "work you f*cker" at it?

Dozens of times.

Anyway, nothing would work, couldn't even get System Restore so I did a full re-install of the OS including Windows 10. All afternoon effing about, but now we're up and running again.

 

[fossyant]

Done that once with my lads gaming PC after the graphics drivers went wonky.

 

[SteCenturion]

"PC Shagged" ????
No wonder its not working.

I imagined Police Officer Porked when I saw the thread title ....

Not an anti Police slang reference either.

 

[subaqua]

I imagined Police Officer Porked when I saw the thread title ....

Not an anti Police slang reference either.

I was going to mention @Cubist but I think he was a big more senior than PC

 

[mybike]

Dozens of times.

Anyway, nothing would work, couldn't even get System Restore so I did a full re-install of the OS including Windows 10. All afternoon effing about, but now we're up and running again.

Could be that there was a dodgy spot on the disk & reinstalling everything put the driver somewhere different.

 

[slowmotion]

Dozens of times.

Anyway, nothing would work, couldn't even get System Restore so I did a full re-install of the OS including Windows 10. All afternoon effing about, but now we're up and running again.

Now all you have to do is back up all your files and stash them on a memory stick somewhere. Oh, I forgot....it's working right now.......no need to bother...

 

[ayceejay]

Politically Correct Shagging was once known as the Missionary Position - how times have changed.

 

[fossyant]

Then you put the memory stick somewhere safe, and forget !

 

[Accy cyclist]

I thought this thread on seeing it was about a copper having it away with someone in the back of his plod car while on duty.

 

[ayceejay]

I thought this thread on seeing it was about a copper having it away with someone in the back of his plod car while on duty.

Then you put the memory stick somewhere safe

 

[Vapin' Joe]

Now all you have to do is back up all your files and stash them on a memory stick somewhere. Oh, I forgot....it's working right now.......no need to bother...

All important files backed up regularly onto a memory stick, then loaded onto my backup laptop and again onto Mrs SJ's laptop. I believe in two pairs of braces along with the belt.

 

[ColinJ]

All important files backed up regularly onto a memory stick, then loaded onto my backup laptop and again onto Mrs SJ's laptop. I believe in two pairs of braces along with the belt.

But do you keep the '2 pairs of braces and the belt' in the same room ready to be consumed by the same fire or stolen by the same burglar?