Hi,

 

Problems with the computer!!!!!

 

Went to start it up and there was a slighty different sound and it displayed F1 to restart or F2 for setup!!!

 

So I contacted Dell who informed my 3 year warranty expired 6 days ago but were Gracious enough to help me!

 

They said in setup the Puta wasn't recognising there was a hard drive there, so take the cover off, checked the connections and blow the dust away. Which is what the Maestro AndyG suggested, Cheers Andy! And it worked!!

 

For your Info!

 

A week ago, my puta told me it had found a damaged section of the hard Drive and I followed its instructions and isolated it

 

About the same time I opened an email that contained the Klem Virus, my antivirus software detected it isolated it and I then deleted it!

 

So whats the prognosis Puta doctors?

 

Mark

It could well be that the hard disk had just stuck and you bashing it about while taking the cover off etc freed it up, so next time you turned it on it worked. It's not unusual for a disk to croak after three years, it might be worth buying another of and copying all yoiur stuff over, while it's still working, or failing that start taking backups of the stuff you really need !

Cheek!

 

 

Bashing about, AndyG has seen the professional and skillful approach I take to anything involving makaniks or elektrikary!!!!

 

So what Hard drive do you reccomend getting!

 

By the By I am running a celery 400 processor and 320 mb of rambo!!!

 

:D

 

Mark

Didn't mean like that you tart ! Just turning the case over may have done the trick if the disk had decided not to spin up. ;)

 

As the machine is about 3 years old I'd guess you have something like a 20GB disk, so something similar would be fine, but you could probably get a larger one pretty cheaply now. Have a look at http://www.dabs.com or http://www.scan.co.uk/todayonly etc

Yikes!

 

Just had norton Antivirus scan my disk and the Klem virus is still there, but it has said it has quarantined it!

 

Could this still be affecting my system?

Probably not if it's been quarantined, but you'd wanna get rid of it properly.