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Come Inside... => The Computer Room => Topic started by: Miss Demeanour on March 20, 2009, 09:30:18 PM
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My work laptop keeps doing the blue screen thing with the physical memory dump and I need to restart.
What causes this ???
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Technically, it is fucked.
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Gee thanks ......care to elaborate ?
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The "Blue Screen of Death"
Not good news noooo:
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Re-install Windows or buy new laptop... or get a man that can in... whistle:
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Try a system restore....
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Wish I hadn't asked now scared2:
I meant to be doing some work on it this weekend noooo:
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It's your work laptop ~ let your IT bods sort it out.
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Will do Uncle M - my only predicament is I need to do quite a bit of work before Monday and I can't use my home PC for that as it's not compatible.
But it has literally crashed every 10 minutes or so this evening - Maybe if it has a good nights sleep it will be better in the morning noooo:
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Every ten minutes isn't good. You could try system restore from a earlier point.
Start -> My Computer -> Control Panel -> Performance and Maintenance -> System Restore
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I can't do that Uncle M as it is a work laptop I am locked out of any administration rights ::)
Thanks for the advice though - will see how it goes tomorrow.
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I said that... evil:
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Only use system restore as a a last resort, ie if you are totally desperate and nigh on suicidal.
Tis better to boot from recovery cd (high hopes of that being available) and recovering from there.
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Only use system restore as a a last resort, ie if you are totally desperate and nigh on suicidal.
Tis better to boot from recovery cd (high hopes of that being available) and recovering from there.
Yeah ~ and who ever has a recovery CD? noooo:
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Only use system restore as a a last resort, ie if you are totally desperate and nigh on suicidal.
Tis better to boot from recovery cd (high hopes of that being available) and recovering from there.
Yeah ~ and who ever has a recovery CD? noooo:
noooo:
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Only use system restore as a a last resort, ie if you are totally desperate and nigh on suicidal.
Tis better to boot from recovery cd (high hopes of that being available) and recovering from there.
Yeah ~ and who ever has a recovery CD? noooo:
Did you not find yours during your recent sort out lol:
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Four laptops and two PCs in the house and not one came with a recovery disc. One PC keeps prompting me to "create" such a disc but rejects every attempt on the grounds that "The disc is too small" ~ OK geeks ~ answer that one.
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Get a bigger disk.
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::)
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Get a bigger disk.
happy001 happy001 happy001
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Also try taking the battery out, hold the "start" button for thirty seconds and then leave it five minutes before putting it back in. <<Serious>>>
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Also try taking the battery out, hold the "start" button for thirty seconds and then leave it five minutes before putting it back in. <<Serious>>>
rubschin:
Will that make the disk bigger then...? Shrugs:
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Quill, Quink and parchment beckon. cloud9:
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Lapdogs are a pain.
Desktops are easier to look after.
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Also try taking the battery out, hold the "start" button for thirty seconds and then leave it five minutes before putting it back in. <<Serious>>>
rubschin:
Will that make the disk bigger then...? Shrugs:
It's not necessarily simply a RAM problem - we had a few laptops at work that did this and the old "battery out" bodge sometimes werked, like...and, no, I cannot explain why.
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Lapdogs are a pain.
Desktops are easier to look after.
Less fun for dancing on though.
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Is it still working?
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I haven't switched it on since...but I have to do this work today.
Expect major loss of inner calm later evil:
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Tee hee.
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Ok - I have now been trying to use this decommissioned piece of space junk for the past 45 minutes. Been blue screened twice now evil:
I don't think I am going to get very far today noooo:
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Iz fooked mizzus ~ stop werk and preserve your inner karma
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Ok - I have now been trying to use this decommissioned piece of space junk for the past 45 minutes. Been blue screened twice now evil:
I don't think I am going to get very far today noooo:
Take the rest of the day off... you'll only lose something important at some point... noooo:
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Thanks boss lol:
Could you write me a note for tomorrow to explain why I haven't done my homework please scared2:
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No note needed ~ just take in the fooked machine and BLAME THEM for providing dodgy if not downright dangerous tools.
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It will be my fault somehow - it is always user error according to them eveilgrin:
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The battery thing sometimes works on Mr Wench's laptop too. So give that a go. Failing that defragmenting the disc seems to sort it out for another few months.
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And the word is?
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Well I managed to get both reports done and still be able to work at home today angel1
Didn't do it on my work laptop though - bastard thing evil:
I had some technical support and assistance from a certain bread maker on here to make my own pc compatible with historic versions of MS office and therefore could complete on my own puter.
Apparently I will be receiving an invoice though lol:
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Well I managed to get both reports done and still be able to work at home today angel1
Didn't do it on my work laptop though - bastard thing evil:
I had some technical support and assistance from a certain bread maker on here to make my own pc compatible with historic versions of MS office and therefore could complete on my own puter.
Apparently I will be receiving an invoice though lol:
whistle:
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Well I managed to get both reports done and still be able to work at home today angel1
Didn't do it on my work laptop though - bastard thing evil:
I had some technical support and assistance from a certain bread maker on here to make my own pc compatible with historic versions of MS office and therefore could complete on my own puter.
Apparently I will be receiving an invoice though lol:
And lapdog is in dustbin?
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Lapdog is being used as a coaster at the moment 8)
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Well I managed to get both reports done and still be able to work at home today angel1
Didn't do it on my work laptop though - bastard thing evil:
I had some technical support and assistance from a certain bread maker on here to make my own pc compatible with historic versions of MS office and therefore could complete on my own puter.
Apparently I will be receiving an invoice though lol:
Watch out for the hourly charge or part thereof ;)
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Well I managed to get both reports done and still be able to work at home today angel1
Didn't do it on my work laptop though - bastard thing evil:
I had some technical support and assistance from a certain bread maker on here to make my own pc compatible with historic versions of MS office and therefore could complete on my own puter.
Apparently I will be receiving an invoice though lol:
Watch out for the hourly charge or part thereof ;)
Wise words Uncle... in reality tho it was the small print relating to 'Triple time outside of normal working hours' and 'Weekend bonus payments' that she should have been paying attention to.... whistle:
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You'll be paid in goats.
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Wise words Uncle... in reality tho it was the small print relating to 'Triple time outside of normal working hours' and 'Weekend bonus payments' that she should have been paying attention to.... whistle:
Triple time and frickin bonus payments - have you worked at RBS previously rubschin:
You will receive my thanks and be grateful !!!!
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Wise words Uncle... in reality tho it was the small print relating to 'Triple time outside of normal working hours' and 'Weekend bonus payments' that she should have been paying attention to.... whistle:
Triple time and frickin bonus payments - have you worked at RBS previously rubschin:
You will receive my thanks and be grateful !!!!
evil:
I knew I should have got the cash up front... Banghead
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In the mean time is there not some method of reporting problem and having lapdog collected /despatched for fixing?
This is what I used to do with external users.
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Wise words Uncle... in reality tho it was the small print relating to 'Triple time outside of normal working hours' and 'Weekend bonus payments' that she should have been paying attention to.... whistle:
Triple time and frickin bonus payments - have you worked at RBS previously rubschin:
You will receive my thanks and be grateful !!!!
You tooka chance asking Baldy to help you Miss D. A physical memory dump for BM involves taking the daily paper to the toilet after having a helping of his basil and honey bread. whistle:
In the mean time is there not some method of reporting problem and having lapdog collected /despatched for fixing?
This is what I used to do with external users.
Grumpy's Law #47. Never expect a company or organisation to have that level of common sense and organisation.
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Re-building a lapdog takes an hour or two depending on it's condition.
Primary concern is usually to recover data, everyone say that it's all soo important and then it turns out to be their daughters GCSE coursework etc.
Mind you, I did get a bottle of booze for getting the coursework data back for one rep. ;D
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In the mean time is there not some method of reporting problem and having lapdog collected /despatched for fixing?
This is what I used to do with external users.
happy001
We have a new system where you don't actually speak to anyone directly. God Forbid eeek:
You have to go onto the Intranet site and then raise a request for the IT dept to help you.
However this is now like an Amazon website - and you need to select what service you require , add this to your shopping basket, provide your cost codes and then submit. Of course all the menu's are pre- defined so anything that is outside the norm you have no chance of finding - they certainly didn't have a selection for lapdog is fooked Shrugs:
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You took a chance asking Baldy to help you Miss D. A physical memory dump for BM involves taking the daily paper to the toilet after having a helping of his basil and honey bread. whistle:
He was actually very helpful redface: - it's so unnatural to say nice things but that is my quota for the year used up now noooo:
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Bllody amateurs.
Tell them it's a Health & Safety risk and that it is becoming a stress problem.
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You took a chance asking Baldy to help you Miss D. A physical memory dump for BM involves taking the daily paper to the toilet after having a helping of his basil and honey bread. whistle:
He was actually very helpful redface: - it's so unnatural to say nice things but that is my quota for the year used up now noooo:
The tax year, that is?
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You took a chance asking Baldy to help you Miss D. A physical memory dump for BM involves taking the daily paper to the toilet after having a helping of his basil and honey bread. whistle:
He was actually very helpful redface: - it's so unnatural to say nice things but that is my quota for the year used up now noooo:
The tax year, that is?
Genius happy088
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Companies that hide behind intranet services such as this, worry me, especially as I might be applying for jobs with them.
When Dell completely their service system it becam a nonsense, having to deal with people who were working from a flow chart list of questions and who probably had no technical knowledge, eventually (after god knows how long) escalating the problem or just asking you to pack the unit up and it would be collected sometime.
Complete waste of time (mine that is) but it meant their service level targets were met.
I get rather wound up when some numpty talks down to me when I can tell them in 30 seconds what the problem is. evil:
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But that of course is not what you will be saying in interviews ;)
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I did tell one company thet their set-up and operations were not very clever, but by then I did not want the job anyway.
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Would now not be a good time to bore you about how a proper ITIL based operation would have avoided the stress they are putting you through?
I'm studying ITIL v3 at the moment, it's really...
dull.
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Thanks for your really generous offer - if I understood it I would be even more impressed lol: lol: lol:
However I'm sure you have much more important things to be getting on with noooo:
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I will look again at this ITIL mullarky, as he said, it's very boring.
I have checked my email and job sites, so now it's just a case of writing my little piece for the Jobcentre this afternoon.
Then I will return and have a Youngs.
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Easy does it now lol:
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I am recovering from the gym and a certain amount of forking in the garden yesterday.
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I am recovering from the gym and a certain amount of forking in the garden yesterday.
Hope it wasn't caught on camera by Google eeek:
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Miss D you have taught me a valuable lesson! cloud9:
I had a customer with a broken system caused by a lightening strike - out of warranty so I quoted €400 for the likely replacement part (a satellite modem) and €100 for the service call.
Today he calls and wants to drop the part in to save the service call
Meet him in the village, collect the modem and put it on test - it is buggered, deceased, an ex-modem.
Send an e-mail to his Blackberry telling him is is fooked and the replacement is €400 and he calls me straight back...
Customer: No problem, can it wait 'til the first week in April?
Barman: No hurry at all
Customer: I'll pick up the modem this arvo then?
Barman: (thinking of how Miss D tricked him) You want the modem without paying me for it first? I don't think so!
Customer: I'll cancel my subscription then!
Barman: Okay, bye, bye...
noooo:
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Tricked you !!!!!
Fecking Tricked YOU !!!!!!!!!
I did not seek your help - you donned your cloak of kindness and offered a damsel in distress some roadside assistance. Then, and only after the event, have you started discussing terms and conditions and contracts and parts therefrigginof
I shall pay you back - IN MAY crash:
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Tricked you !!!!!
Fecking Tricked YOU !!!!!!!!!
I did not seek your help - you donned your cloak of kindness and offered a damsel in distress some roadside assistance. Then, and only after the event, have you started discussing terms and conditions and contracts and parts therefrigginof
I shall pay you back - IN MAY crash:
lol:
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Tricked you !!!!!
Fecking Tricked YOU !!!!!!!!!
I did not seek your help - you donned your cloak of kindness and offered a damsel in distress some roadside assistance. Then, and only after the event, have you started discussing terms and conditions and contracts and parts therefrigginof
I shall pay you back - IN MAY crash:
Beware Geeks bearing gifts whistle:
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Beware Geeks bearing gifts whistle:
lol:
Can unsought advice be considered a gift and not a donation? - Whilst I appreciate intelligence and knowledge is a gift , this is personal to the individual. When this is shared is this a present rubschin:
This was more a transfer of data at an appropriate bit rate to a ignorant end user lol:
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Let's not get all philosophical about it ....... the fact remains that if you do owt for nowt ~ do it for the'sen.
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You have to go onto the Intranet site and then raise a request for the IT dept to help you.
rubschin:
Is it me being a layman, or is there a fundamental flaw in that method of reporting a broken PC?
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Well DS ~ If it's you then it's me too. I once phoned my ISP's help line to get a recorded message telling me that I should route my enquiry via their website. Since I wanted to gain information as to why their email service had stopped working that was tricky. Banghead
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"The Digital Age"
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Your farm has some very strange things growing on it eeek:
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He got it from the BBC ~ Gnome Service was shutting down.
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He got it from the BBC ~ Gnome Service was shutting down.
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He got it from the BBC ~ Gnome Service was shutting down.
drumroll:
Actually it was the Tird Programme. whistle:
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You have to go onto the Intranet site and then raise a request for the IT dept to help you.
rubschin:
Is it me being a layman, or is there a fundamental flaw in that method of reporting a broken PC?
You would be surprised how many times this sort of thing happens.
I would go and tell the "head honcho" that the network was down - her response was usually "send an e-mail to all afftected users to let them know". My sniggering at these points in time probably didn't help with career progression...
My preferred method was to wander the floors shouting "the system is f*cked, so you may as well do your filing or the "Name Game" in the Sun." 8)