Disaster with Desktop

[Fay]

just tried it on a fully charged battery, no difference

[mickw]

Hmmm

Sounds like it might be broken 

[Fay]

regarding desktop, motherboard has come up, so ordered that & also a CPU ordered in case it is that. It can be sent back if not needed.

[Fay]

Well, got a refund on the HTC, it would not charge, amongst other things. Vodaphone did not have more around so I now have a Blackberry 8500. Really like it, not just a phone, lots of extras but not like the HTC which was more like a computer.
Took a couple of weeks to suss out the Wildfire, but only a day for this one. Nice looking, easy to learn, used my HTC backgounds as well, which i was pleased about as I like a picture. keys a bit small, but, up to now, I like it very much.

[Fay]

Well, my friend, Richard has sorted the desktop!!!!!!!!!! Yippee!!!!!!

He replaced the motherboard as on the old one, 4 of the capacitors were sort of blown at the top, near the graphics card.

He got it up & running but because he left the graphics card out, in case it blew the new motherboard, the colours were ok on the screen but the resolution was wrong & not enough choices for image size.
So, he saved the correct graphics card  at PC World, I went & got it & now the pictures are correct on screen. I am just transferring all my saved data & hope all goes as well as it is at the moment.

Did not think I would have this outcome, just got to get it all back to normal. Thank God, Chris did my wireless connections, would have been so difficult if it had not been done.

I should be all settled when we get some clear skies, worries sorted!!!!!!Fingers crossed

[Carole]

What a nightmare Fay.

Glad it's finally sorted.

Carole

[Rocket Pooch]

See, format hard drive not allways the answer

[Fay]

Yes it has been awful, Carole, all we seem to get in one way or another is problems.

Yes, Chris, PC World would have messed with the hard drive & still it would not have worked, costs mounting all the time. I am very lucky at the outcome

[RobertM]

You've been lucky this time but what happens if the hard drive goes - do you backup important data or can you afford to loose everything ?

Robert

[Fay]

I am backed up Robert. At the moment trying to get these programs back on again