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voogru
05-26-2001, 11:31 PM
When is was At one of my friends house (Monday Tuesday and Wednsday) I was setting up some computers for the dsl due to overwhelming Trouble with them.

each computer was a Nightmare.

Computer #1

COuld Not boot to windows PERIOD I saw the Windows 98 Logo but it went strait to dos. ran DIR command on C:\ drive. NOTHING. ran DIR command on D:\ Dirve NOTHING it said Invalid Media Type. so I took out One Hdd at a time and tried using only one hdd. same thing. stuck in the hdd's back in fired up the Computer. booted off the cd-rom and ran fdisk on both dirves. formatted both drives and finally installed windows. this took about 3 hours. I never dealt with the problem Before.

Computer #2

Everything was fine But the DSL. would never connect. would just sit at Logging on to network. we let it sit for 30 mins. never logged on. tried a bunch of stuff reinstalling DUN Uninstalling DUN all sorts of garbage. never fixed it till a complete "Restore" off the HP cd-rom. installed modem connected like a charm. then kept trying to boot too safe mode if modem was still connectec during Reboot or Startup.
told them to disconnect modem before Reboot or Shutdown.

Computer #3

Seemed to work fine but cd-rom was all messed up. tried another cd-rom same thing. tried new IDE port same thing. yet i was able to boot from cd-rom just fine. so i decided for a format and reinstall windows. worked fine after that but still a Mystery D:\ drive that causes computer to lock up when you click on it. never could fix that.

installed DSL modem everything ran fine.
Now he had a 4th PC that he said was Majorly fu**ed up but it ran like a charm so he used it to replace the one which would try to boot to safe mode if modem was connected (COmputer #2) as for Poor Computer #2 they decided to lemme tryout a Favorite game of mine online. Team Fortress Classic! my ping was around 50-100!!! when i blow up my Dispenser it was like INSTANTLY! BOOM! (voogru killed l33t-Mikel with Dispenser)

i got payed 50 dollars to fix em all ( i knew i could have got more but i didnt expect to even get payed) which i used to pay for my dsl http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

just thought id let you know i did something usefull with my life. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

-voogru

Brangwen
05-27-2001, 03:59 PM
Good feeling getting those bugs out, aye? Good job.

Brangwen http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif Fellow Tinkerer

codybear
05-27-2001, 04:37 PM
did ya ask them to crack rc5 for ya??

AuraEdge
05-27-2001, 06:55 PM
Thats where it all starts.

http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

Your probably gunna get a couple of refs in the future from your friends for thier other friends
Good thing for us people who fix stuff - Windows is a ticking time bomb.

voogru
05-27-2001, 07:12 PM
I wanted to See if i could ask them to crack rc5 for me but they didnt want any Non-Nessesary Programs running and they wanted ZERO games. they asked me even to uninstall the games that come with windows.

if i would have got them setup i owul have scored a:

Celeron 400
P2 333

the first one i fixed wasnt theres. it was a friends of theres that wanted there computer geek to fix (Yeah they Had Someone there that was fully capable of fixing the machines) but he was lazy.

I got a bunch of goodies other than money as well.

JoeDriver.com Laser Pointers 5 of em
JoeDriver.com "magic Lighting Balls" 6
Joedirver.com T-Shirt Large 1 of em

BTW the comp whiz worked at JoeDriver.com


-voogru