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| Thread ID: 63550 | 2005-11-13 20:32:00 | avg letting in virus? | supergran (108) | Press F1 |
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| 404241 | 2005-11-15 10:13:00 | Thank you everybody for all your suggestions, and comments, and today when I tried to reformat, I got errors after errors, so took it back again, he changed ram, I come home, tried again to reformat, no joy, but finally, after another visit, and being told it was most likely my hard drive, I suggested he took out his new ram, left my old ram, and we would work from there . Yep, he did put another new ram in, with my old one, and hey presto, I could reformat . Mind you, I wasn't leaving the shop this time without it being fixed . What a lot of hacking around . If he had of listened two weeks ago when I told him it was compatability issues, it would of been a lot less hassle . I am NOT a tech, but I have picked up lots from here, and of course picked your brains more than once, but I would of thought that ram compatability, once you know what the mother board is, shouldn't of been too hard . Obviously I was wrong . The first thing I did once reformatted, is remove Nortons, I do not like it now, and I didn't like it before, mainly cos of the way it slowed my puter, and at present have AVG again, and if I get financial, I will certainly look at Nod32, as I was impressed with what it did, without slowing things down . Ferrite, the graphics card that I said about, is factory in my puter . The only new thing is the dvd burner he replaced my dead cd rom with, and the ram . I now also have sp2 installed, so hopefully, I will have another 19 months of reasonably trouble free computing . LOL |
supergran (108) | ||
| 404242 | 2005-11-15 10:33:00 | Should have hit him with your handback, and you should have put a brick in your handbag before visiting him. Re-reading your initial post it seems your comp developed the issue as soon as he put the new ram in and before he installed/ran Nod32? Common sense would (should) dictate to the guy immediatly that he had bunged in a dodgy stick of ram, Insert ram> machine starts to suck> Revisit the ram....Immediatly. I wonder if he tried to install Nero and simply dismissed it when it went belly up. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 404243 | 2005-11-15 22:58:00 | Yes it was as soon as he installed the dvd burner, and ram. If I carried a handbag Metla, that would of been a great idea! LOL As for him installing Nero, well it still isn't installed, as I have been getting this updated, ie virus, firewall, newest firefox, printer, etc, and haven't even tried. But that will be done tonight, I hope. So yes, my guess is as good as yours, tried to install it, got the errors, and thought, oops, too hard basket, give it back. Next time this needs work, I will be asking for good techs references around here before it goes anywhere. At least I learnt a big lesson, if no one knows know him, or can recommend his work, he doesn't get to know my puter. |
supergran (108) | ||
| 404244 | 2005-11-16 01:52:00 | Lacking the handbag - You could have made him eat the dodgy ram. | pctek (84) | ||
| 404245 | 2005-11-16 03:28:00 | Well NAV is the first thing that goes on my comp. after XP. You've got your opinion and I've got mine. And I don't think much of spybot either :thumbs: As you said you have your opinion :badpc: |
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