I really love this computer!!!!

[kedaman]

ARGH ARGH ARGH! I hate this computer so much that i could throw it out of the window any second!!

Ah! You know what just happened, i was just reading Parksies post about programming on late nights when something really really annoying happened. I read that HarryW had his birthday, and i'm so sorry that i couldn't come but i thought i would have to drop a happy bd message, but when i pressed the down button (because this *****ing computer is 800*600) to scroll the view, and as you know you don't see two characters can fit into the screen without having to scroll. Then suddenly i funny message appears, a msgbox saying that Kernel32 just crashed, how funny is that? Can you answer me that!! AAaah! And then when i press another key, another and another, starts to click anywhere while it's not responding, i just thought that this very very very fast computer usually does this, it for no reason starts to stop functioning for up to 15 seconds and then suddenly continues, but that wasn't the case. What happened was that it started to beep for each key i pressed, and when the mouse started to beep too and

BTW, happy birthday Harry

[parksie]

Damn...it's annoying when that happens.

oh well, I guess you'll have to give your computer to me......
their is no way around it.....

[CthulhuDragon]

You know what I've discovered? Brand name computers suck. At home I have a hand assembled PII 450. I chose all the parts myself and assembled it. At work I have a compaq Professional workstation with a PIII 733, 386MB of memory and a whole bunch more fancy parts. But it is the most unstable piece of crap I have ever used. The week after I got it, NT got fried somehow and refused to boot up. I got that fixed (only took a week!), not I have had to reinstall VC and VB at least 3 times each. I would much rather be using my PII 450. It may be slower, but I have never had a problem with it. I know I will never buy a Compaq in my life!

compaq's suck, I used to have one,
it worked FINE......
but one day it just refused to..... DO ANYTHING....
I couldnt boot windows, I could only access DOS from a floppy, even with the boot disk it wouldnt boot.

I tried formating fdisk'ing I tried installing linux(which requires format) and nothing worked, now its just sitting in a corner of my room collecting dust.....
because it wont do anything, I think the HDD is fried..... peice of crap 350 mhz, 10gb HDD.....

I have a PIII totally put together by my friends hand, and it screws up constantly. The problem is that im running windows. If you want the ease of use that windows provides, you have to put up with the constant crashes. On my 486 i have only dos, and not once has it screwed up.

[parksie]

I use a home-built PC with a PIII-500, and 128megs. It has had so many hard drives in I've lost count . I have never had any problems whatsoever, and because I have a habit of buying things from trade fairs, comes out at about 1/2 the price of systems you buy.

PS: ChimpFace9000 - like the new sig

[oetje]

Parksie, do you use SCSI hard drives?

[parksie]

No - I use UDMA-66 drives...one is an A/V drive, though.

[MPrestonf12]

Putting a computer together could be good but with so much **** that can casue conflicts or foul things up it can be disaterous. At least with name brand you have a warrenty. but thats only my opionion i've heard people who put there own computers together and have great luck!

[HarryW]

Thanks Kedaman

I looked in a computer mag the other day, thin kit was PC Pro, and saw that they now do UDMA-100 drives. Is that right? They any good? When I bought my Athlon 550 the HDD reviews were saying that UDMA was catching up with SCSI.

Hey take it outside, dump it in the snow, and piss on it

Dennis

Without too many details there it sounds like your battery card has gone kapoot. Yes P.Cs do have a battery in em. Now not knowing compaq too well, you should be fine to get a replacement card if the battery isn't integrated onto the mother board, (l really hate that, you might as well dump the friggin machine), just log a call with compaq

Hope that helps, had to do it yesterday for a client. Their machine couldn't see the hard dicks, and after checking the BIOS etc determine it was the card, got a replacement, and away they went.

couldn't see the hard dicks

I have been waiting months for someone to make a typo like this... HAHAHAHAHAH LOL
Ok, thats all I have to say right now.... hehehehehehe

.....honest John

[Jamagei]

kedaman i had exactly the same problem as you about the stops responding to anything for a little while. there was a conflict between IE5.0 and WIN98. i had to downgrade back to IE4.0 and it worked fine. if you uninstall IE5.0 (if that is what you have) then install IE5.01 SP1 or higher it should solve the problem.

If you Already have like IE5.5 just ignore me. Most people do these days. : ^ { ) }


[Edited by Jamagei on 08-31-2000 at 08:12 AM]

[kedaman]

What is it actually=!?!?!!?

I mean, this is not the comp i used yesterday (it was a ugly P-133 with only 32M) but i'm on the library now, they have a better one here, dunno what speed but i can almost feel it's about 266 and 64M. But when i was reading this post, i've been here for about 1 hour then i just looked at Jethros post, and what happens? Guess what happens when you read someones post which appears to be Jethros of course, it locks up, the damn thing stops responding!!!! :mad ARGH, if this was my computer i would throw it out of the window!!

BTW compaq we used to call anything that doesn't work, or as a f-word anytime, just should compaq.

About my old 133 again, it really sucks, it really goes so slow you could think it has 1M ram and swapped 100M all the time, and the big problems starts to come when you start to use netscape 4 on it, it could crash anytime, and if not, it it is so slow that it sometimes just locks it self for a minute, with the harddisk just ticking, now that's what i call....

argh, i don't even have a word for that comp!!

[V(ery) Basic]

I've got two computers:

First One:
466 mHZ
64MB
20GB HDD
Win 98
Office 2k

Second One:
200 mHZ MMX
32MB
5GB HDD
Win 95
Office 97


And the second one (and yes, I do mean the second one) is faster. It can cope with 30 apps running at the same time, unlike Win 98. It can load Sim City scenery faster, it crashes once every couple of months (unlike the first one which crashes every couple of days or so). Its a lot less buggy generally and I always use the second one.

The first one just gathers dust there.

Now why the hell is that?

V(ery), if its collecting dust, you can give it to me.

now that's what i call....

argh, i don't even have a word for that comp!!

is it a compaq??? hehehehe, my old 350mhz compaq was SO DAMN SLOW.... I know it was only 350mhz but it crashed so much..... compaq's really suck.....

[kedaman]

From bad to worse, my portable 200Mhz seems to run slower than this piece of ****! Sometimes when you play a game like HMM3 the frames goes so slow, that you can watch it update them!!! But that's not too bad, this comp really suck at understand what i'm typing, the keyboard has a dealy if i type something, then it takes ½ second for them to show up, and when i click on somthing it just starts to swap to the harddisk instead. And that takes up to 1 minute! And when you get back (you could do something else while its swapping , go to the toilet or something) Then you can use it for some 30 secs and then it starts again1!!!!

It's not a compaq, it's WORSE!

worse than a compaq?
I didnt think that was possible

[V(ery) Basic]

What's worse than a Compaq?


















Two Compaqs.






What was Versacci doing when he got shot?



















Checking the mail.

[dimava]

There is 1 thing worse then 2 compaqs

















































More Compaqs


My other computer is a compaq and works horrible. And I have a hand built 550 Athlon with a Riva TnT 2 video bord, Sound Blaster MP3 Live sound card, 50x cd drive, 6x recorder, 19 inch monitor, 128MB sdram, 37 gig hard drive, and a laser mouse, with a subbuffer and 2 speakers. Oh yea, and a Microsoft Internet KeyBoard and a Epson 760 printer with 1440dpi max, and a 2400dpi scanner, and 2 game controllers, and pc camera.

(I'm not trying to brag)

[parksie]

I've never used Compaqs, because I hand-build all my stuff. My current setup:

PIII-500
128MB 10ns SDRAM
20GB Samsung HDD
15GB IBM HDD
8GB Maxtor HDD
SB Live! (with backplane)
44X CD-ROM
4x CD-R
NAD Power Amplifier with 2 Kef Q35 Hi-fi speakers
17in Shinho monitor
14in AST monitor
3dfx Voodoo3 3000
Gigabyte GA-6VXE motherboard

...and it's never given any problems at all

[kb244]

I build my own PCs, the only thing I've ever owned that was company manufactured from top to bottom was an ASM Advantage Pro! 486/25 SX

my current system is as so

Athlon Classic 750Mhtz
512Meg PC100 SDram
Abit KA7 (not the KA7-100 revisision)
Kx133 Via Chipset
24Gigs Total HDD Space
5X DVD / 32X CDrom
Dxr3 DVD/Mpeg/VCD decoder card
4x2x8 CDrw
Live!Drive
Sound Blaster Live! Platinum
Microsoft Intelimouse Explorer
Elsa Erazor X2 (Geforce DDR)
10/100 NIC (that connect to my 1.5Mbit Cable Modem)
17" Dell Trinitron Monitor that gets above 130Hz refreshs
USB Zip100 Drive
USB D-Link Radio
USB Kensington VGA Cam
HP DeskJet 692C Color Printer
300Wat Sparkle Power Supply
HeatSink from an Athlon Freezer PRo (3dcool.com)
2 Fans from the Athlon Freezer Pro on back of case
CardCooler XT
Slot Cooler

..whew I'm tired

My Computer:
486DX2-S
66 Mhz
16 MB RAM
600 MB Hard Drive

My Moms Computer:
Pentium III
500 Mhz
64 MB RAM
9.54 GB Hard Drive

[dimava]

I dont really see the diffrence between the two LOL

[kedaman]

Hehe, it's Octec, it's exactly what is worse than more Compaqs!! And this is exactly the last time i use this piece of ****!

P-133 32M
8x cdrom
1G HDD
15' 800*600 monitor
SB 16

My better comp:

Athlon 600 64M (soon 128, really soon)
40x cdrom
17G HDD
19' 1600*1200
SB 128
Creative 3dblaster 32M
Wintv Hauppage radioTvcard

I friggin hate Thinkpads....what an over rated box of garbage....have spent the weekend trying to hook one up to a docking station. Works real well if you don't want to use the CD Rom at the same time as the Floppy disk, and you don't mind bending the modem cable, and you don't mind spending spending hours getting rid of IBMs bloated software.


You think you have it bad with compaqs, your lucky!!!