Ship Simulator
English forum => Small talk => Topic started by: The Ferry Man on March 19, 2010, 21:54:59
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Hi All,
Just to let you know I am current;ly facing Major Computer issues, as my Main OPC seems to have died.
Started with a blue screen that restarted the computer, but took 10 minutes before it actually decided it would, then it crashed again, and it wouldn't load, but now it just doesn't start at all - the fan comes on and that is it :(
Coluldn't have come at a worse time ioether - my final work fir university due in three weeks :-\
So I may not be on so much at the moment
(any ideas what could be wrong also appreciated :-\)
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Hi Mark,
Could be wrong, but it sounds something like the 'Blue screen of death', but, as I say, don't take my word for that...Maybe somebody will be able to give you a definite answer :)
Sorry to hear about the problems...always terrible when something goes wrong, especially as you say, when you have work on it :-[
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Blue screen of death...?
It had wrioting on it, and some thing that counted up to 100 before restarting?
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Yes windows ecountered an error and stopped your computer from doing anything else. Then it probably created a dump file which is why it started to 'count'.
Have you tried booting in safe-mode??
Do you see a black screen with writing as soon as you turn the computer on?
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'Blue Screen of Death': http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Screen_of_Death
As I say, I could be totally wrong...I assume you don't see Windows Startup or anything like that? I was going to suggest trying F8.
Jack.
p.s. see Adam beat me to safe mode! :lol:
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The computer no longer starts up at all now - press the main power button, the fan starts up, but nothing happens - the red light that flashes when it does something doesn't light up at all, and nothing comes on the screen at all - remains on standby mode
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Overheated?
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I have had it off now for a few hours and still nothing :-\
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Power supply has died. If you have another lying around try it.
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TFM,
Open up your computer look to see if there is tons of dust in it. What is it doing exactly?
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+ check if all the fans are working properly.
It could be that the motherboard went out. Had the same problem some months ago due to dust in the fan above the processor.
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I had something like your problem,got someone in to fix it and found out it was a virus,maybe.
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Thanks for the adviuce guys...
Currently she is in repair shop, apprently it could be hardwear failure and Windows Corruption :-\
Could be fixed in four days after Monday :'(
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On my old comp the RAM memmorys did pop out so it coulent start.
Hope you will get it to work again ;)
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Hope you get it back soon. More to the point I hope you get all your data back or even better, I hope you had all your data backed up?
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Well heard today it was the Motherboard gone :(
If that wasn't bad enough, the DVD-Drive was hardwired to that motherdrive, so I have to have a new case as well to get the Drive working
All my pictures are backed up onto CD, and my University Work is on a USB Stick
They say they are gping to back up my work...
Especially since one thing I didn't back up was my Ship designs... :'(
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Nasty! Let's hope everything can be saved :thumbs:
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Nasty! Let's hope everything can be saved :thumbs:
If the drive itself is OK you should be able to buy a caddy for around £15 to convert it to an external USB drive.
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Well heard today it was the Motherboard gone :(
If that wasn't bad enough, the DVD-Drive was hardwired to that motherdrive, so I have to have a new case as well to get the Drive working
All my pictures are backed up onto CD, and my University Work is on a USB Stick
They say they are gping to back up my work...
Especially since one thing I didn't back up was my Ship designs... :'(
really hope you get the models saved, you have some awesome models on there, which would be very sad if they were lost
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What can cause a motherboard to go..?
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A couple of pounds of TNT and...
(http://www.liquidmatrix.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/explosion.png)
Your Motherboard's gone.
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What can cause a motherboard to go..?
Lot's of things, power surges, faulty power supply units, other faulty hardware or cables ect.
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What can cause a motherboard to go..?
An apparent dislike to me...
This is the second motherboard that has gone...
The computer I had before this one had the Hard drive and Motherboard go about a week or so after I brought it... :-\
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I repaired a blue screen of death last week ::) Fun task, was actually caused by a virus. Its quite strange that your dvd drive was hard wired directly to the mother board, i've never seen that before as normally they have interchangable data cables. Hopefully you have better luck in the future ;)
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Perhaps a surge-protector would be a good investment..
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Well the BSOD happend to me a couple of month ago caused by a virus. my brothers friend was
"LOOKING UP STUFF ON MY PC" that would get me a virus. (and i all hope you know what i mean by "looking up stuff means" beacause im not ganna go to any more details) but any way after that i told my friend what happend.He is like 20 years old and he is a computer wiz, so i asked him if he can fix it so he did the only thing he couldnt fix was the virus so he just told me to get virus protection.
P.S i didnt have virus protection at the time because my other one expired and i never had the time to get AVG for free
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he didn't fix the virus, that was basically the main thing to fix.... other than the bsod.
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i ment he got my pc up and running again he couldnt get rid of the virus
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Perhaps a surge-protector would be a good investment..
I have got one - and the computer is always connected to it
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Well I am now back. Have a new motherboard and a new case
Not quite as good as the old one, have lost a lot of USB Sockets and my card reader :-\
And a lot of stuff...
TFM Shipyards had a major distaster...
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Nice to have you back TFM.. ;)
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Good to be back ;D
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nice to hear you got a new motherboard, but the shop wasn't able to save your models?
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I am not sure what happened - they had my pictures, but whent hey showed my the files the documents folder wasn't there ???
My own fault for not backing them up though :(
Edit:
or forgetting I had backed up most of them ;D
I have found a lot of my models on my External Hard Drive - I never relaised I had copied them over :2thumbs:
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hmmm that sucks. I think I'm going to back up all my work now.
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hmmm that sucks. I think I'm going to back up all my work now.
No no no - I have found I have still got most of them :2thumbs:
It is a miracle!
But still back everything up...
Several times to be on the safe side...
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phew, and they all work?
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I don't know...
They should do these were saved a few weeks ago - I haven't got the Bilbao ship I designed, or the Spirit of Tas replacement (but this one I have a copy from Nathan).
I now just need to work out how to get SketchUp 6 - Google only seem to offer v7 now...
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why do you need GSU 6?
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I don't like GSU 7 :doh:
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ah, I liked it, until I forgot how to make those dots on the lines go away
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That would be extremely useful :thumbs:
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Here you find GSU 6
http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/freesoftware/ig/Free-Graphics-Software/Google-SketchUp.htm
or here
http://download.cnet.com/Google-SketchUp/3000-6677_4-10626008.html
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Thanks, but the http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/freesoftware/ig/Free-Graphics-Software/Google-SketchUp.htm link seems to be just a review, and the other link downloads SU7?
Sorry :-\
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Thanks, but the http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/freesoftware/ig/Free-Graphics-Software/Google-SketchUp.htm link seems to be just a review, and the other link downloads SU7?
Sorry :-\
well hope some have it for you then :-\
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Hopefully
Thanks though Tore :thumbs:
Edit: I find it!!!
http://www.filehippo.com/download_google_sketchup/3579/
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