jimscott
Tropical Fish Enthusiast
More computer bad news, though. My pc was making these odd noises a few days ago, like it had a bad connection and it sounded as if it was shutting down / starting up. A day later, while typing up an Email, it froze and had to be shutdown with the power button. But when I restarted, it went into not only the quick Scan Disk, it also automatically went into the thorough one. It was moving along, getting through used and unused sectors & clusters, as well as a few that were labeled bad sectors. But at 57%, it stopped progressing. I tried the restoration CD and the Windows 98 CD, but all things went back to the thorough Scan Disk and stopping at that one bad sector, with bad clusters. At one point I let it do its thing and had to go out for a couple hours. I was amazed to see that that it put up a message about finding an error and volunteering to fix it. So I let it do that and a few minutes later it found another... and then another... and then another... I had 18 bad clusters supposedly fixed, with mo end in sight. Then my son, Aaron came home and I asked if this thing was actually finding new bad clusters or just recycling the one and was actually going nowhere. He said that the hard drive is dead and it probably isn't doing anything real to fix anything.
He happened to have another hard drive, from various cannibalized computers and he popped it in. And then he attempted to get the pc going again. So he put the Windows 98 CD in, as well as the Restoration disk. But the computer wouldn't recognize the modem. He popped another modem in, but it still refused to recognize it. He said the Restoration CD was scratched and while it restored other things, it would restore the modem. I tried cleaning the disk, but that disn't change anything. Then he went to the Gateway site and downloaded the info onto a floppy. But it still wouldn't recognize the modem. So I have a workable computer, but no driver to be able to get the modem running, and therefore I have no Internet.
So he is going to order a wireless modem online, which will probably take a couple weeks to get here. He also is contemplating an upgrade to Windows 2000 and wants to talk to a guy in our church who builds computers about that - but he hasn't been available.
I'm going to call Gateway and see if I can get a new Restoration Disk.
So for now I am relegated to sporadic use of his laptop and the libraries.
He happened to have another hard drive, from various cannibalized computers and he popped it in. And then he attempted to get the pc going again. So he put the Windows 98 CD in, as well as the Restoration disk. But the computer wouldn't recognize the modem. He popped another modem in, but it still refused to recognize it. He said the Restoration CD was scratched and while it restored other things, it would restore the modem. I tried cleaning the disk, but that disn't change anything. Then he went to the Gateway site and downloaded the info onto a floppy. But it still wouldn't recognize the modem. So I have a workable computer, but no driver to be able to get the modem running, and therefore I have no Internet.
So he is going to order a wireless modem online, which will probably take a couple weeks to get here. He also is contemplating an upgrade to Windows 2000 and wants to talk to a guy in our church who builds computers about that - but he hasn't been available.
I'm going to call Gateway and see if I can get a new Restoration Disk.
So for now I am relegated to sporadic use of his laptop and the libraries.