amd then my PC googles up....

Ok, so I knew that I was setting my self up for a kick in the ass when I bought my Dell Dimension 4550 desktop computer. Today it kept screwing up when I kept turning it on. So, I got the idea to go into safe mode....well I did remove a W32/Pate.b.tmp worm virus from one of the files in the "My Documents", but when I wanted to re-install windows...........the damn computer had removed my drivers to both my regular CD-ROM and my 48X CD-RW drive!!!!! I can't do nothing but either watch a dead screen on a botched startup or do nill to nothing in safe mode!!!!!!!!!!!!!:evil:

No wonder I was a born a Macintosh user 8), because the computer i'm using now is my two year old Indigo Blue 500Mhz iMac. So then I was wondering if some of you would know the best course of action to get my delema fixed before I move to Toronto, Ontario, Canada this coming Tuesday???:?:

Watch the language a bit please... I understand your frustration (I own 3 PCs at home, one with WinXP and another that dual-boots Linux and Win98), but try to keep it clean. You never know who's on the other end of the browser. :shock:

As for your poll, I voted for getting a new mac. I love new hardware. ;)

Sorry, Simon. I'll keep the prophane text down in my novels.....I hate PCs.

One more thing to add about the new hardware is apple's operating system called Mac OS X, its sweet! I may have a fried slot loading cd-rw drive on this(i mean litterly, its electroniclly toasted, need new one or a FireWire external cd-rw drive), but OS X has not crashed or nothing. OS X is a credited to apple computers inc.'s use of UNIX as the base. If one was enough, two is even better, because the possibilities of a 4GHz Macintosh would rock my digital media designing world! 8)

Just think of UNIX and Linux for Macintosh, only Linux doesn't work on mac OS X, instead there is Aqua as the GUI shell.

The G5 for one thing is the worlds first processor based on 64Bits, making it incrediblly fast. The G5 computer itself is capable of 8GB of built in RAM(theres no way i'd need memory like that 8) ) and has the best of the best for other hard ware like better 128MB video cards by nVidia and Radeon. The Network adapter is pretty sweet too, it is a 10/100/1000 Base Ethernet card. Whats even sweeter is that I could get an Apple Cinema Display monitor at 23"s! Time to play the games in on heck of a monitor.

Ok, so I took to my friend in town at a local PC repair shop. Aparently, both my CD-ROM and my CD-RW drives were disabled in the BIOS(who could this happen???). It it runs fine now, I also put Ad-Aware 6 on my PC and deleted a bunch of Ad Ware files from my PC's hard disk.

My friend had no explanation for the BIOS shutting off my optical drives, so he warned me that there might be a problem with the Dell mother board it self.

Man, all this work for just a simple PC....What a headach :? .

lol i voted to sell it off and after that i would just buy a new pc with ither windows XP or windows 98 im a windows user and will always be one :wink:

I know this is an old topic but I have a machine that would seriously give a g5 a run for its money and in most cases out do it, and all with ONE processor. I know becauase I use g5's at school.

Anyway a computer is a computer. Regardless of wether or not it has an apple or a window, they all can crash . . . It's just user preference.

i agree with dragon all computers will crash if you hit something wrong. take for example my computer crash because i opened unintensionaly 1000 files of word just because i grew inpatient with it and kept clicking on it for not opening up. i had to restart my computer completely by shuting it down wich took forever. i thought that it had a program to prevent you from opening to many of one file like my other computer had but it did not.

Indeed leejakobson. But also a computer can crash for no reason at all, other than the operating system having become unstable and corrupting itself. I should know, as I killed two laptops by simply changing the startup logo.

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Indeed leejakobson. But also a computer can crash for no reason at all, other than the operating system having become unstable and corrupting itself. I should know, as I killed two laptops by simply changing the startup logo.

--Tzolkin
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i disagree Tzolkin everything happens for a reason i am guesing your computer had a glitch in logo setting and probably couldn't be changed with out causing a crash.