dell latitude D600 help required

-TangleFoot-

ABH wrote: »

...unless your wife twirled it around her head...

You just made a boo-boo.

dipsy wrote: »

I said in my first post he had dropped it

dipsy

funny how people assume its a woman who breaks anything to do with computers :rotfl::rotfl:

dipsy

-TangleFoot- wrote: »

I suggest you run a disk integrity check. Go to Start→Run, type chkdsk /r and hit [Enter].

ran this and now the laptop is in a loop every time it starts up it attempts to run this

how do i get it to stop running on start up?

thanks in advance :-)

-TangleFoot-

Assuming you can still skip the check before it starts and that the computer subsequently boots into Windows without issue, you can prevent it from running in future by following these instructions.

dipsy

-TangleFoot- wrote: »

Assuming you can still skip the check before it starts and that the computer subsequently boots into Windows without issue, you can prevent it from running in future by following these instructions.

I don't know how to get it to skip the check, it runs every time I start and I can't seem to get out of it and as it does not complete properly it runs again and again :-(

-TangleFoot-

In that case you'll need to reinstall Windows.

dipsy

-TangleFoot- wrote: »

In that case you'll need to reinstall Windows.

in that case its going in the bin..... have only just reinstalled windows the other week and time before that was about 5 weeks previous... tbh other people using my computer equipment costs me too much wasted time.... everyone is now officially banned from using my pc :-)

ABH_3

dipsy wrote: »

in that case its going in the bin..... have only just reinstalled windows the other week and time before that was about 5 weeks previous...

Still at least you can only blame yourself, instead of having to blame the partner, shame though you've noone else to blame Sorry about that incidentally, I had been reading a thread elsewhere and I got the two mixed up.

Throwing the computer in the bin? Kind of like throwing the baby out with the bathwater isn't it? Have you tried turning it off and pulling the harddrive out? Maybe jump into the bios, get it to boot from CD\DVD where it will be met with something like the Ultimate Boot CD which you will download along with a suitable or equivalent USB Boot Disk from many of the places online: http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=boot+disk+download&aq=0s&oq=bootdisk+download&aqi=g%3As1&fp=-WPIvmzc7xw the USB equivalent: http://www.bootdisk.com/pendrive.htm you could even do a WinPE Boot Disk so you can look at windows when you get in there: http://windowsconnected.com/blogs/joshs_blog/archive/2007/02/05/creating-a-bootable-winpe-2-0-usb-key.aspx

Just imagine the possibilities once you've got a working environment to play with.

I'm sure Strider, or Tanglefoot can think of a few ideas at this point.

Failing that of course, pull the drive stick it in a external caddy. Purchase new drive, stick into laptop and well install windows.

tbh other people using my computer equipment costs me too much wasted time.... everyone is now officially banned from using my pc :-)

Banning them works, or you could take the precaution of backing up your data externally, I'll assume you do this if you're not concerned with throwing the laptop away.

Then you could build a deployable image which could have you back up and running in around 20 minutes. I have an nlited image that does that, I also have a quick Acronis backup which deploys in around 15 minutes. You could consider such a thing you know, Acronis has the benefit that it also backs up your emails etc, upto the point you took the backup. Which if you were to set it to run every Sunday Night say, you could have a problem on Monday morning and not even miss the next days emails

Or you could put the computers in a room, then lock the door

HTH

-TangleFoot-

ABH wrote: »

I'm sure Strider, or Tanglefoot can think of a few ideas at this point.

Um... Sugar on a Stick?

dipsy

ok decided to try reinstall windows go this message

file\i386\halacpi.dll could not be loaded the error code is 7

set up cannot continue, press any key to exit......

:-(