majorcatfish
Garden Master
our computer was about 8 yrs old running win 8.1 it died the other day..ggrrrrrr
for the last couple yrs the sd card reader would work when it wanted to, hard to transfer anything. the last couple months was getting notices saying low memory, did everything i could to fix that..nada puter still froze. the last couple weeks the hard drive would spin up and then slow down for no reason, plus the screen would go black till rebooting.
so went down to staples where we bought it from and asked the computer guru, he said the memory chip was too small or dying and needed to be replaced, as for the hard drive it needed to be replaced. he recommended that with the cost of replacing everything and transferring all the data it would be cheaper to purchase a new one..
had to agree with him so we talked puter he we trying to sell me a dell, wanted nothing to do with dell <had one before nothing but crap> wanted a hp he showed me couple types ended up with a pavilion 590
he tried to sell me a complete system.nope have everything already did purchase the 2 yr extended warranty.
took 3 days to get here, so in the mean time decided to transfer my own data/files.. the hard drive did not like that, while doing this the hard drive died right in the middle of a transfer <buzz whirl click buzz click> was able to save 4gb .
the puter showed up yesterday, dang they ask way to many questions during the set-up had to write down all new passwords to this and that, reloaded Norton anti virus and office, took awhile to load the printer, now we can print wired or wireless it reads a sd card...
put the cd with all the downloads in, a few seconds went by and a window popped up saying some of the data may be corrupt and may have malware do you wish to continue... needless to say did not re load anything... guess thats for the best...
for the last couple yrs the sd card reader would work when it wanted to, hard to transfer anything. the last couple months was getting notices saying low memory, did everything i could to fix that..nada puter still froze. the last couple weeks the hard drive would spin up and then slow down for no reason, plus the screen would go black till rebooting.
so went down to staples where we bought it from and asked the computer guru, he said the memory chip was too small or dying and needed to be replaced, as for the hard drive it needed to be replaced. he recommended that with the cost of replacing everything and transferring all the data it would be cheaper to purchase a new one..
had to agree with him so we talked puter he we trying to sell me a dell, wanted nothing to do with dell <had one before nothing but crap> wanted a hp he showed me couple types ended up with a pavilion 590
he tried to sell me a complete system.nope have everything already did purchase the 2 yr extended warranty.
took 3 days to get here, so in the mean time decided to transfer my own data/files.. the hard drive did not like that, while doing this the hard drive died right in the middle of a transfer <buzz whirl click buzz click> was able to save 4gb .
the puter showed up yesterday, dang they ask way to many questions during the set-up had to write down all new passwords to this and that, reloaded Norton anti virus and office, took awhile to load the printer, now we can print wired or wireless it reads a sd card...
put the cd with all the downloads in, a few seconds went by and a window popped up saying some of the data may be corrupt and may have malware do you wish to continue... needless to say did not re load anything... guess thats for the best...
