New pc?

kremmen

I am getting really cheesed off at my pc restarting itself randomly. It might be fine for weeks then it will restart ( and lose info) 3 times in 1 dayy as it did yesterday.

My son lost 2 hours of typing last evening ( will the teachers believe that..don't suppose they will).

I am thinking of keeping my monitor and getting a base unit.

Can I have opinions on this for the price ( I can get 10% discount at Tesco)

http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.209-9355.aspx

I will be using it for browsing internet ( virgin media 50mb ) and a few simple games.

Thanks

Paul

free4440273

( will the teachers believe that..don't suppose they will).

^the dog ate the homework/

it's okay, it will do the job; i don't like acer as a brand myself /

hubert_cumberdale

try dell

you could try "the dog turned my PC off so i ate the dog"

i tried many excuses at school for that but the one i found that killed the conversation really really quickly was

"wheres your homework"

"i didnt do it" <- there is no answer to that

davetrousers

Buy a new hard drive, disconnect current drive. Install Windows on new hard drive. Reconnect old hard drive as secondary drive and copy work pics, music etc. over.

Save work more frequenlty.

kremmen

davetrousers wrote: »

Buy a new hard drive, disconnect current drive. Install Windows on new hard drive. Reconnect old hard drive as secondary drive and copy work pics, music etc. over.

Save work more frequenlty.

Thanks for this. I fitted a new hard drive 6 months ago and re installed OS and it still restarts itself at random.

I do save more often now but you trying telling a 14 year old that ( however he may have "learnt the hard way" but I wouldn't bet on it )

As for Dell in previous post would this be better and then connect my old/new hard drive ? ( price to me £341 ish)

http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.209-7032.aspx

Paul

gonzo127

so i guess you havent set office to auto save (recovery) every 5 mins then?

anyways seems a little overpriced to me, all depends on what you are after, i notice it is a smaller form factor pc so is space an issue? if so consider this http://www.aria.co.uk/Systems/Home+Range/Atom/Gladiator+Shuttle+SG41J1+PLUS+Mini+PC+?productId=42767 add in windows 7 at £73 and it comes to the same price as the Tesco one (including your discount) is smaller has more RAM and a better CPU

or this http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/pc/range/iflame.html once operating system is added takes it to £414.99 but comes with a core i3 processor, 4gb ram

gonzo127

ops i also cant beleive i forgot to add in my normal reference system i tell people to look at which is this

http://www.dinopc.com/shop/pc/configurePrd.asp?idproduct=935

although please note i have not used this company so do not know what their customer service is like and please do take into account delivery is £25

kremmen

gonzo127 wrote: »

so i guess you havent set office to auto save (recovery) every 5 mins then?

anyways seems a little overpriced to me, all depends on what you are after, i notice it is a smaller form factor pc so is space an issue? if so consider this http://www.aria.co.uk/Systems/Home+Range/Atom/Gladiator+Shuttle+SG41J1+PLUS+Mini+PC+?productId=42767 add in windows 7 at £73 and it comes to the same price as the Tesco one (including your discount) is smaller has more RAM and a better CPU

or this http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/pc/range/iflame.html once operating system is added takes it to £414.99 but comes with a core i3 processor, 4gb ram

Hi.
I have just checked and auto-save is on every 15 minutes but when I check in docs the document which is saved at the time the pc crashed has no text in it.

Space isn't a problem. I will look at your suggestions.

Thanks

Paul

ps. The only problem I have with buying a pc from internet is servicing incase of faults. I know that when push comes to shove with Tesco I can get a full refund if I am unhappy.

Russel245

hubert_cumberdale wrote: »

try dell

you could try "the dog turned my PC off so i ate the dog"

i tried many excuses at school for that but the one i found that killed the conversation really really quickly was

"wheres your homework"

"i didnt do it" <- there is no answer to that

Detention...

But yea, a Dell isn't a bad choice, I mean it isn't my choice, ever, but the customer support that comes with it is fairly good.

Other choices could be places such as dabs, scan, novatech, ebuyer. I'm sure there's more but I can't think of any, and I can't really comment on their customer service, I normally avoid it as best I can (which is how most companies like it unfortunately)

kremmen

kremmen wrote: »

As for Dell in previous post would this be better and then connect my old/new hard drive ? ( price to me £341 ish)

http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.209-7032.aspx

Paul

Oops out of stock now.

maybe

http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.209-7411.aspx

Paul

kremmen

Yet another ( upscale ) choice

http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.209-9581.aspx

any opinions on this?

Paul