Computer Help--Technical Q And A

[maildude]

I'm no computer expert. But I've had computer problems in the past...and now one in the present. With all of the horseshit threads some people start, I thought I'd start one that was at least useful. This is for everyone to ask for help, and anyone to respond with solutions. I think this would make a fine Sub-Forum itself IMHO, but I'll leave that up to Our Gang.
For starters, my laptop fritzed out the other day, and I was about to trash it based on previous experience. But then I decided to check this helpful entity called The Internet. I found out that the problem might be repairable without a visit to either the computer store or a landfill. You see, I went to boot it up, it gave me a black screen, then the message, "No hard drive hooked up" or "No hard drive found" or some such nonsense. The dude online said to turn off the 'puter, turn it on while quickly pressing the F2 button. This brings up the Drive Check menu. He said to do a Quick Drive check. If that checked out OK...it did...turn the machine off again, restart it, then quickly press the F10 button as it's starting up. This brings up the BIOS check page. He went on, instructing to make sure the time and date are correct. If they are, check the various menus until you find a listing under Boot Options that says Legacy Support. Hit that, and DISABLE it. Apparently, that enables a second DOS choice called UEFI which will...or should...reboot the computer and make the fucker work again. Well, it worked and my laptop is back online. Thank you, mysterious and charming Internet hero!!!

 

[ChuckFaze]

Yeah, if it's not set up as a Sub-Form, the thread will eventually disappear.

 

[Pornfan99]

maildude: uh, if you haven't already, get an external hard drive / memory stick and back up what files / content you want to keep. Odds are that laptop is on its last legs!

 

[maildude]

maildude: uh, if you haven't already, get an external hard drive / memory stick and back up what files / content you want to keep. Odds are that laptop is on its last legs!

Yep. Yer right. About an hour ago, that fix failed and on a re-run of the BIOS and HD check the DST failed. Dead hard drive. Lost some things but nothing too major since I've been through this shit before, and I've come to be paranoid about stuff. Music, movies and TV are all saved on external drives, and more importantly my massive porn collection...while it took a hit, it's still alive and wanking. 💪

 

[FreeOnes_Adam]

A new drive wont be too much which is good. I've lost laptops to overheating, and that always blows. Well, it didn't. Fan was fucked. It didn't blow.

 

[maildude]

That's assuming that the hard drive is all that is wrong. I'm not computer savvy enough to know if something else could be an additional problem. If it's anything like my car or my health, I could be looking at a new computer. But it's okay in a way because it would become a secondary computer anyway, and if it's a decent but lower-cost model that would work fine.

 

[maildude]

Just learned a trick to help speed up your internet drag if you are on ethernet. Go to your adapter settings which you'll find in Win10 under your Network option in your control panel. Click to change adapter options. Double click Ethernet. Click on Properties. Click on Configure. Click on Advanced. Go down to Speed And Duplex option. Then select 100mppsFull. Your connection will quickly reset itself, so don't be downloading anything. This is necessary because your standard computer will often...for various reasons...reset default to 10mpps. Of course, monitor your computer's actions and if it's overheating. The retroactive reset is likely a preventative function preset, that's probably why.