firemaker103 Member Posts: 643 From: Registered: 07-13-2005 |
words and letters cannot express how i am felling right now: http://www.codersworkshop.com/viewpost.php?id=31708#31708 ------------------ |
Realm Master Member Posts: 1971 From: USA Registered: 05-15-2005 |
AA! a lot of smilies! ------------------ Blessed are those who show mercy. Blessed are those who suffer for doing what is right. |
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firemaker103 Member Posts: 643 From: Registered: 07-13-2005 |
i am seriously breaking pencils to get rid of my anger.  [img]http://www.christiancoders.com/ubb/icons/icon27.gif [/img] ------------------ |
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Realm Master Member Posts: 1971 From: USA Registered: 05-15-2005 |
what happend anyway (not time to read the whole thread on CW) ------------------ Blessed are those who show mercy. Blessed are those who suffer for doing what is right. |
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firemaker103 Member Posts: 643 From: Registered: 07-13-2005 |
you don't want to know.  Things to keep in mind: My FPS code, 25% done. ------------------ |
HanClinto Administrator Posts: 1828 From: Indiana Registered: 10-11-2004 |
My freshman year of college, my dad called me up to tell me that my hard-drive at home had crashed, and the capstone work of my high-school programming days was lost in its entirety. I was literally sick to my stomache, and couldn't believe it was all gone. My advice: play it cool, don't do anything rash. My first advice would be to grab a USB key or something and use that to grab all of you data off of your computer (you should be able to do that while in safe mode). The other thing I would do is take out the hard-drive and put it into another computer as a slave drive, and copy off all of my important data before trying a reinstall or anything drastic like that. Installing a new OS is a last restort, though $800 for data recovery from CompUSA is a little steep. :-\ I'd be willing to call you and give you phone tech support to walk you through some of the finer points of this stuff if you're interested -- my cell gets free long distance. --clint ------------------ |
bennythebear Member Posts: 1225 From: kentucky,usa Registered: 12-13-2003 |
do you know anyone who has a computer, or do you have another computer to put the hard drive into, then copy the files from it? ------------------ proverbs 25:7 www.gfa.org - Gospel for Asia www.persecution.com - Voice of the Martyrs |
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Realm Master Member Posts: 1971 From: USA Registered: 05-15-2005 |
wait... if your computer is busted... what, are you on a laptop? ALL of it Han, oog, i would be sick too.... ------------------ Blessed are those who show mercy. Blessed are those who suffer for doing what is right. |
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firemaker103 Member Posts: 643 From: Registered: 07-13-2005 |
I'm on my dad's laptop. (I hate that alll new computers rarlet come with floppy drives built-in.  I mean, $100 for data recovery and another $100 for fixing it. The $600: New computer. ------------------ |
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firemaker103 Member Posts: 643 From: Registered: 07-13-2005 |
quote: i am interested. Check your PM. ------------------ |
CPUFreak91 Member Posts: 2337 From: Registered: 02-01-2005 |
quote: I find that punching the wall works better... it's also cheaper ------------------ |
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CPUFreak91 Member Posts: 2337 From: Registered: 02-01-2005 |
Hey firemaker, what OS are you running? Try pressing F8 alot before it boots into safe mode.... I'm using XP SP2 and that never happens.... one really good thing about XP!!!! Do you have the windows CD? ------------------ |
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CPUFreak91 Member Posts: 2337 From: Registered: 02-01-2005 |
Ah... sorry for double posting but this needs a new post  One way to keep things like this from happening is to: Earn Money ------------------ |
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firemaker103 Member Posts: 643 From: Registered: 07-13-2005 |
windows me.... I have to computer restore cds.. Look at the article above to see my current state. ------------------ |
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CPUFreak91 Member Posts: 2337 From: Registered: 02-01-2005 |
OK firemaker.... I've been thinking veeery deeply and I remembered a solution for a problem similar to this that I fixed.... First off you need the Windows ME disk Now this is from and XP disk... so it may not work. Oh one more thing.. ur gonna need to reinstall some drivers and possibly some other programs but Your files will still be there though. You could have Windows create a new C:\Windows folder so that your drivers aren't overwriten (say the comp will boot off of C:\Windows2)... if this works please email me @ cpu[dot]crazy[at]gmail[dot]com so that I can see if you can copy some drivers over without wreking your installation like it is now. ------------------ [This message has been edited by CPUFreak91 (edited September 03, 2005).] |
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bennythebear Member Posts: 1225 From: kentucky,usa Registered: 12-13-2003 |
duh...i don't know why i didn't think of that one, i've done that before myself...good idea ------------------ proverbs 25:7 www.gfa.org - Gospel for Asia www.persecution.com - Voice of the Martyrs |
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firemaker103 Member Posts: 643 From: Registered: 07-13-2005 |
it works in safe mode now. woot. (i just booted it up this morning without doing anything. ------------------ |
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Lava Member Posts: 1905 From: Registered: 01-26-2005 |
Yes seriously, get rid of ME, install 98 if you have to, lol. ME is the worst OS that I know of and that I have used. ------------------ [This message has been edited by lava (edited September 03, 2005).] |
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firemaker103 Member Posts: 643 From: Registered: 07-13-2005 |
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CapnStank Member Posts: 214 From: Sask, Canada Registered: 12-16-2004 |
Alright I'll break it down the way I fixed my comp when it did that. Originally it turned out to be a corrupt mcafee scan at startup that'd freeze during start. So basically I got into ms-dos and hit whatever key brings up the startup menu. (Mine was CTRL I've read F8 is working for you). Once there I selected the option where you can select which drivers and whatnot to start your computer with. Now the first time through with this you'll want to select no for all options (which is basically identical to a safe mode startup). If it starts up fine you know that one of the files that usually starts up your computer is corrupt. Basically run through a series of restarts selecting 1 at a time and keep booting until you find the 1 that freezes the boot. That's how I did mine. It was a LONG time ago so I'm sort of sketchy on the details. Roughly it works along the lines of MSConfig. I could help you out more with suspicious/unsuspicious startup files if you're on 98. Otherwise I'm quite lost. ------------------ |
GUMP Member Posts: 1335 From: Melbourne, FL USA Registered: 11-09-2002 |
As others have pointed it sounds like you should be able to recover your data no problem. If you have important data you buy an external storage device (HD, flash mem, zip) and get in the habit of making backups every so often. |
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firemaker103 Member Posts: 643 From: Registered: 07-13-2005 |
ROFLLOLOLOLOLOLOLROFLROFLROFL  I ran ad-aware in safe-mode thinking what the heck. I rebooted: ------------------ |
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bennythebear Member Posts: 1225 From: kentucky,usa Registered: 12-13-2003 |
go ad-aware. i've had to run it from same mode before, but i never had that much of a problem from spyware. ------------------ proverbs 25:7 www.gfa.org - Gospel for Asia www.persecution.com - Voice of the Martyrs |
D-SIPL Moderator Posts: 1345 From: Maesteg, Wales Registered: 07-21-2001 |
adware/spyware whats that?  --D-SIPL ------------------ |
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bennythebear Member Posts: 1225 From: kentucky,usa Registered: 12-13-2003 |
linux...must be nice  ------------------ proverbs 25:7 www.gfa.org - Gospel for Asia www.persecution.com - Voice of the Martyrs |
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D-SIPL Moderator Posts: 1345 From: Maesteg, Wales Registered: 07-21-2001 |
It can be I've had a lots of computer probs this weekend. I got given a pretty decent laptop, the cdrom drive doesn't work, the floppy drive doesn't work it just had a copy of Windows XP on it. So i downloaded WINGRUB and then pointed it to the initrd and linux kernel file and booted into a SUSE FTP install. I wasn't counting on it being a little shaky at best, so i set it all uo, chose my mirror and started the installation, mid way through it decides that it no longer wants to see the mirror and freezes. I have no choice but to reboot. The partitions are mashed so there isn't anything on the HD, so i'm left with a nothing other then a challenge Fun and games... --D-SIPL ------------------ |
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bennythebear Member Posts: 1225 From: kentucky,usa Registered: 12-13-2003 |
all of today was like that for me...swapping floppy drives, hard drives, cd drives...hanging out or sitting on top of the case when they weren't in the original case.all trying to get windows 95 to install. i almost had it until the 486 i was attempting to install it one froze...i wish i had the floppy disk installation, then i wouldn't have to have to mess with starting it from windows 3.1. linux isn't even this difficult for me to install...well on a desktop, and installing one of the beginner distros...plug n play and easy installations are not over-rated. i feel for the computer repair guys from the days old . ------------------ proverbs 25:7 www.gfa.org - Gospel for Asia www.persecution.com - Voice of the Martyrs |
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CPUFreak91 Member Posts: 2337 From: Registered: 02-01-2005 |
Here's my IP 63.245.76.220 .... now go crack !! Actually I invite anyone to try... one to test my firewall and two 'cause I'm rarely online :-D ------------------ |
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D-SIPL Moderator Posts: 1345 From: Maesteg, Wales Registered: 07-21-2001 |
Yeh i bet there isn't a person here who could hack my box. My IP is 127.0.0.1 --D-SIPL ------------------ |
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CPUFreak91 Member Posts: 2337 From: Registered: 02-01-2005 |
quote: Ok cracking now..... ooh I'll delete /etc/rc.d/rc.M!!! Next moring... AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! Linux won't boot!!!! I cracked my own box. For those who don't know: 127.0.0.1 is your own IP on every computer. Every computer has a internal "Network" and it needs an IP address. ------------------ [This message has been edited by CPUFreak91 (edited September 08, 2005).] |
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D-SIPL Moderator Posts: 1345 From: Maesteg, Wales Registered: 07-21-2001 |
it was a lame joke i apologise... I need to take the time to sort out iptables somewhen, it's long though and i rarely have the sufficient motivation. --D-SIPL ------------------ |
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CPUFreak91 Member Posts: 2337 From: Registered: 02-01-2005 |
quote: No, it's a classic ------------------ |
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firemaker103 Member Posts: 643 From: Registered: 07-13-2005 |
I got I NEW computer that is so much better than my old one. (I still have the semi-working Windows ME )------------------ |
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D-SIPL Moderator Posts: 1345 From: Maesteg, Wales Registered: 07-21-2001 |
quote: Nah seriously it was lame, but no where near as lame as Windows ME though --D-SIPL ------------------ |
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firemaker103 Member Posts: 643 From: Registered: 07-13-2005 |
i just installed firefox on my new comp.
(With a new skin and mods....) ------------------ |
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D-SIPL Moderator Posts: 1345 From: Maesteg, Wales Registered: 07-21-2001 |
I dont think animated sigs are allowed. --D-SIPL ------------------ |
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firemaker103 Member Posts: 643 From: Registered: 07-13-2005 |
quote: quote: ------------------ |
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D-SIPL Moderator Posts: 1345 From: Maesteg, Wales Registered: 07-21-2001 |
ahh thats cool then --D-SIPL ------------------ |
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bennythebear Member Posts: 1225 From: kentucky,usa Registered: 12-13-2003 |
what are you going to do with your old box? you could slap your cd-drive, hard dive, and floppy into your new one. i want to have a working 5 1/2 floppy drive in a new computer...but it's hard trying to find an old one that works..but i think i have an old windows 3.1(486 cpu) that has one...hmmm... ------------------ proverbs 25:7 www.gfa.org - Gospel for Asia www.persecution.com - Voice of the Martyrs |
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firemaker103 Member Posts: 643 From: Registered: 07-13-2005 |
I'm getting my old one fixed. ------------------ |
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D-SIPL Moderator Posts: 1345 From: Maesteg, Wales Registered: 07-21-2001 |
Click here to fix it yourself  --D-SIPL ------------------ |
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firemaker103 Member Posts: 643 From: Registered: 07-13-2005 |
I finally got all my files back to this computer... *runs AVG and Ad-aware* And, just because I'm so happy I got all my giles and Blitz3D back, I wrote a game to get the brain thinking again! http://www.savefile.com/files.php?fid=4963025 ------------------ |
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CPUFreak91 Member Posts: 2337 From: Registered: 02-01-2005 |
quote: You know something even better than those programs? Avast Antivirus and SpyBot (both free and really good!). I've gotten a load of spyware (before I switched to linux) and viruses and Avast and Spybot handled them really mean. Ad-aware is good to, but spybot is even better. ------------------ |
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firemaker103 Member Posts: 643 From: Registered: 07-13-2005 |
last time i ran spy bot, it said it deleted them, but then I ran it again, it said it was still there! ------------------ |
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CPUFreak91 Member Posts: 2337 From: Registered: 02-01-2005 |
quote: Sounds like an old bug... when was the last time you used Spybot? ------------------ |
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firemaker103 Member Posts: 643 From: Registered: 07-13-2005 |
erm.. 2 years ago... ------------------ |
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CPUFreak91 Member Posts: 2337 From: Registered: 02-01-2005 |
quote: Yeah, that was a bug... now fixed The best antivirus/adware and security system is called: "The Linux Kernel" with a "Firewall" and "Other security messures". ------------------ |
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firemaker103 Member Posts: 643 From: Registered: 07-13-2005 |
quote: do you mean ad-aware and spybot ------------------ |
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bennythebear Member Posts: 1225 From: kentucky,usa Registered: 12-13-2003 |
i had ubuntu linux on the internet earlier, i was going to post but i don't know my password, it's not the one i picked or the one that ccn e-mailed me...but it's stored on this computer so...anyway...that's the first time i've ever been on the internet with linux...there is hope for me and linux yet ------------------ proverbs 25:7 www.gfa.org - Gospel for Asia www.persecution.com - Voice of the Martyrs |
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firemaker103 Member Posts: 643 From: Registered: 07-13-2005 |
well, norton sucks. IT says I have no spyware. I run ad-aware, it says I have 54! ------------------ |
