tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5047964376363882750.post5837646158399478659..comments2024-02-23T14:25:37.910-06:00Comments on Cold's Gold Factory - WoW AH & Hearthstone Tips, Heroes of the Storm: "But I'm Not Dead Yet!"Coldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02988692142058297277noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5047964376363882750.post-14001098527724675512011-09-05T08:49:45.788-05:002011-09-05T08:49:45.788-05:00Hi
Just wanted to ad a comment or two to your comp...Hi<br />Just wanted to ad a comment or two to your computer problems, if I may.<br /><br />First of all, I agree with Anonymous sayings about flashing BIOS, reformatting and<br />reinstalling software. It isn't as difficult to do as it may seem. But, working in IT-support<br />myself, I can understand your reluctance to dabble with a full restore yourself.<br /><br />When first reading your "But I'm Not Dead Yet!"-blog, I had to think both twice and trice to<br />get a grip on your asking for donations fixing your computer. You needed $200? You have just<br />changed postion, and can't afford $200? I use more than that on lunch each week. No way am I<br />gonna donate to help reach such a lowly figure. You live in the US, the worlds richest<br />country...<br /><br />But then I thought. You live in the US, but you're not the richest country in the world. With recession hitting the US hard, and a national debt of 14 gazillions, or a bit less, I can understand your asking for a donation. The wealth distribution and wages in the US is<br />ridiculous compared to where I come from. If you don't have $200 for a computer fix, it's cost<br />could have been a gazillion, you don't have the dollars anyway.<br /><br />I myself live in Norway, and we're on top of most of the lists, the positive way.<br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)_per_capita<br />So, I could eat lunch out the next week, or help you out a bit.<br /><br />I'll help you out this week, and eat my "matpakke" :-)<br /><br />Keep up the good work, and especially the podcasts.<br /><br />$50 is on your way as a donation from me.Fjelljegerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16741900679456291323noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5047964376363882750.post-6499918213234842332011-09-03T16:02:21.558-05:002011-09-03T16:02:21.558-05:00@Cold
It's quite possible that you have a root...@Cold<br />It's quite possible that you have a rootkit virus, which most antivirus software won't catch and even a restore wouldn't get rid of by itself (one extra step to take there).<br /><br />I guess "easy" is relative, since people change oil in their cars themselves and I wouldn't dare attempt it and rather take it in.<br /><br />My Mom had her pc taken to the geek squad (she doesn't live close). I had her tell me what she was paying for because the same $200 sounded steep to me. It includes unlimited software repairs on 3 computers for a year, as well as antivirus for a year, and they also do a diagnostic to check for hardware problems. So it's not really a bad price, considering Time Is Money, Friend! as we know.<br /><br />Best of luck to you though.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5047964376363882750.post-62380866123884944922011-09-03T10:29:20.644-05:002011-09-03T10:29:20.644-05:00$200 Is the quote for full repair for everything n...$200 Is the quote for full repair for everything needed from The Geek Squad (which is right next door) at Best Buy. <br /><br />There are system errors, connectivity errors, dll errors, not booting up properly on start up, framerate is less than 5 fps, I believe the virus is embedded in the restore partition as well since it is repopulating even after removal.<br /><br />So it is pretty screwed up atm.<br /><br />I don't know enought to fix it myself, otherwise I could do it for cheaper I'm sure.Coldhttp://coldsgoldfactory.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5047964376363882750.post-46719175577596566122011-09-03T09:53:54.074-05:002011-09-03T09:53:54.074-05:00@Cold
Unless it's a custom built computer, &qu...@Cold<br />Unless it's a custom built computer, "re-format and re-install" is as simple as a) booting to the recovery partition and hitting Next a few times b) sticking in the mfg restore disc and hitting Next a couple of times if recovery partition is not available c) ordering the mfg disc (pay S/H only) if b) is not available, then following b).<br /><br />You don't need a tune-up if the computer is freshly restored. At the most you will want to defragment your hard drive.<br /><br />As for the system BIOS needing to be reflashed, does the computer not display anything on the screen or are you having boot issues other than Windows not loading? Because normally a BIOS flash is done if there are system instability issue due to a buggy BIOS release from the manufacturer, certainly not because the computer is infected with viruses.<br /><br />Most BIOS flashes/updates are nowadays done through Windows and is truly as simple as going to the manufacturer.com and downloading an EXE to run on it. So if you feel you need to update it, it could be done after the Windows reinstall.<br /><br />As for the hidden recovery partition - what brand is the computer?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5047964376363882750.post-89682039506528670942011-09-02T18:14:17.512-05:002011-09-02T18:14:17.512-05:00@John Coleman
The system bios need reflashed, the...@John Coleman<br /><br />The system bios need reflashed, the registry files are corrupted, and I just cleaned off 19 viruses, but they are re-populating. So I need a full re-format, re-install, and tune-up. So nothing hardware related to donate.<br /><br />PS: Never let your girlfriend on your gaming machine, even if her computer breaks. :(Coldhttp://goldgrubs.com/the-staff/cold/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5047964376363882750.post-30620791133898282052011-09-02T17:52:25.653-05:002011-09-02T17:52:25.653-05:00What's broken? Perhaps someone would be willi...What's broken? Perhaps someone would be willing to donate the parts? "I need $200 or the blog gets it" is a little sketchy sounding. :)John Colemanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04218428812167753430noreply@blogger.com