Need new CPU for desktop pc

bagby

NiftyDigits wrote: »

bagby wrote: »

We are looking for something like Fujitsu Siemens Esprimo P5710 or some such, as opposed to a serial number.

You wrote Vista earlier. Was that a mistake?

Fujitsu Siemens GmbH. Scaleo T ga 81848 pm.


It must be windows Xp

poppellerant

Reading the manual on Fujitsu's support page, it seems the machine might come with Vista pre-installed.

Cisco001

Since you already have laptop, is it necessary to have extra desktop?

If you don't want to fix existing, with £300
http://www.ebuyer.com/634842-zoostorm-desktop-pc-7260-0015

bagby

macman wrote: »

You don't need a new base unit (CPU is something different) because there is no evidence of hardware failure. Reinstall the OS and all should be well.

If I reinstall the so will I lose everything that was on the computer?

googler

bagby wrote: »

If I reinstall the so will I lose everything that was on the computer?

If you install the OS on the drive that's there already, yes.

What you can do is -

Remove the current drive, which still has all your data, buy a new, blank drive, and install this as the primary drive in your desktop (in the same place as the one you just removed), then install the OS on that from your backup discs.

Then put the original drive back as the secondary drive and access your data, either leaving it in place on the secondary, or moving it to the primary, as you see fit.

There's guides on how to do this all over YouTube and elsewhere on the internut.

NiftyDigits

Have you moved forward with this?

You can find a replacement HDD here for £9.99

You can then run a clean install from Boot with recovery discs.

bagby

NiftyDigits wrote: »

Have you moved forward with this?

You can find a replacement HDD here for £9.99

You can then run a clean install from Boot with recovery discs.

What will I do with this? And how? I've tried pressing f2 and f10 to try and take me to boot screen but it takes me back to the screen which says "windows could not start because of an error in software. Please report this problem as load needed dlls for hal. Please contact your support person to report this problem". Is it a new hard drive for the old tower?

I know I can reinstall but didn't want to lose data (don't think there is a great deal to retrieve but didn't want to lose it. so then thought if I bought a new tower

I've just been in pc world to look at new desktop tower, the fan is very noisy on old tower and thought it might be breaking down. The one I looked at was Lenovo h500s desktop. 4gb ram 500 mb or something similar but just getting advice from shop?

closed

F8, see post 4

You don't need to lose any data, post 6 amongst others

bagby

closed wrote: »

dll's not dolls I hope

it's a software problem, machine will still work.

make, model, operating system, do you have windows discs?

nothing to do with virgin media

boot pressing F8 and try safe mode

I've tried pressing f8 and safe mode but message is multi 0disc 0rdisk0partition 1 windows system32 ha l dll and another error message the same but ending in kd com.dll

NiftyDigits

bagby wrote: »

What will I do with this? And how? I've tried pressing f2 and f10 to try and take me to boot screen but it takes me back to the screen which says "windows could not start because of an error in software. Please report this problem as load needed dlls for hal. Please contact your support person to report this problem". Is it a new hard drive for the old tower?

I know I can reinstall but didn't want to lose data (don't think there is a great deal to retrieve but didn't want to lose it. so then thought if I bought a new tower

I've just been in pc world to look at new desktop tower, the fan is very noisy on old tower and thought it might be breaking down. The one I looked at was Lenovo h500s desktop. 4gb ram 500 mb or something similar but just getting advice from shop?

Post #16. Unplug everything, take off side of PC Tower. Give it a bit of a clean. Swap the old hard drive with the new.
Install Windows to the new hard drive. Once machine is back up and running, you can plug the old drive in(in one way or another) and copy the data needed, over.

The Lenovo wouldn't be my choice at that price point. It's specification is not much better than this Acer Aspire XC-603 for £129.99

The issue with the ACER is that you would need to install an OS for yourself.
Not difficult if you are not afraid.