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| Thread ID: 129286 | 2013-02-14 22:31:00 | Weird Problem | linw (53) | Press F1 |
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| 1328166 | 2013-02-14 22:31:00 | Nearly officially proclaimed I was mad with this saga . Got called in to look at a small-cased Dell/Vista machine that wouldn't connect with DHCP to the wireless router . After a bit of mucking around I rebooted the router and it then connected . But, not so fast . It then showed other symptoms like slow operation and freezing followed by reboots . (The reboots still happened after setting it not to reboot on error) . Brought it home to have a closer look and lo, it worked fine here . Scanned with MBAM - found one adware thingy that it removed . Fixed stuck Win update and loaded up 250MB of updates . Ran OCCT to stress test it and that was fine with good CPU temp . Took it back to owner and within 3 min it froze and rebooted . BUGGER . Also, MSE Real time monitoring was off and wouldn't switch on and DHCP not working again . Brought it back here and my son and I gave it a good check over . chkdsk OK, Memtest OK, Radeon 2400 (passive) was hot but it was stable under Furmark testing . It was loading apps fast and all looked OK (Ha!) . Took it back again this morning . Guess what - exactly the same as yesterday! The 21" Dell screen looked OK but, for some reason, I checked the resolution which wasn't at max . Shoved it up to max (1680 x 1050) and rebooted . Blow me if that wasn't the cause of the problems . 3 hrs plus to move a slider 12mm!!! Anyone match this for bad luck or ineptitude? Very interested to hear if anyone else has found problems caused by screen res settings and VERY interested to hear of how this could have caused these problems . |
linw (53) | ||
| 1328167 | 2013-02-14 23:16:00 | Hi linw, Don't think I've ever encountered this problem before. I usually hate when I can't find a logical explanation for why it works because those are the questions your client would ask you, hoping that if they ever had that problem again, they'd know how to fix it. So what would your explanation be if they asked you what the problem was? Cheers, KK |
Kame Krazee (498) | ||
| 1328168 | 2013-02-14 23:21:00 | So how much did you charge the client, 3 minutes or 3 hours? lol | Iantech (16386) | ||
| 1328169 | 2013-02-15 00:00:00 | One of those weird weird things I guess. | The Error Guy (14052) | ||
| 1328170 | 2013-02-15 00:14:00 | @Kame. I've been doing work for these people for a long time now so they will understand. Besides, the office manager spent 90 min trying to get it to connect to the router so she, at least, will understand!! Probably won't ever get a logical answer. And besides, it will take a week or two of faultless performance before I can say it is truly 'fixed'. @Ian. Ain't that the problem, though. I am just grateful I don't have to pay all the bills doing this. We will arrive at an understanding, though. After all, it has had a thorough checkout!!! |
linw (53) | ||
| 1328171 | 2013-02-15 02:08:00 | LOL. Weirdness..... I had a case once, PC wouldn't boot. Owner insisted I change PSU. PSU was fine.....I did swap it out temporarily for him, which of course made no difference. PC behaved fine in workshop. Turned out it was something at his house - old villa that electrician had been re-wiring, the new part was causing the issue. |
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