Rob Roy Posted August 30, 2014 Report Posted August 30, 2014 Hello folks, I'm sure you didn't miss me, but I sure missed you. Had a monumental PC crash. I've been Gremlin hunting as you will see. I got two of the buggers but the rest of them!!!! God knows where they are. I'm using an old Dell Optiplex GX 270, at the moment and it's slower than me LOL. Download something and I go and make a coffee, half of which I have drank before the download pops up. I'm using it to write this, so you'll get it around Thursday. I've certainly missed a lot of lovely work and superb patterns In the week or so I've been AWOL. I might mention Kevin's lettering, well, just Amazing, all the rest are the usual high standard for our friends here, Superb. Be warned Rob Roy is back!!! Hope you all had a good time. Rob Roy. Birchbark, LarryEA and bobscroll 3 Quote
bobscroll Posted August 30, 2014 Report Posted August 30, 2014 Dam Rob, I've been there as well it's not nice! At least you got two of them, It might run a little faster now, Good to have you back old chap! What! We need people like you to keep the conversation going! See you soon matey, Bob Rob Roy 1 Quote
Rob Roy Posted August 30, 2014 Author Report Posted August 30, 2014 Thanks Bob,I feel at home already . It's been a disaster, I was backing up to an external hard drive when the whole lot went down. I can't even open any files so it could be down the Swanny. Ho, Hum roll on Christmas,hint hint. . Rob Roy. Quote
jellis Posted August 30, 2014 Report Posted August 30, 2014 I hope you get the rest of the out real soon. jellis Rob Roy 1 Quote
LarryEA Posted August 30, 2014 Report Posted August 30, 2014 Well Roy, your message took longer than you thought, It's Saturday. Glag you're fine and still ready to entertain us. I thought something was missing everytime I read a Roly Post. Fire away Quote
amazingkevin Posted August 31, 2014 Report Posted August 31, 2014 That's true ,i realized something was a miss but forgot it as fast as i thought of it.There's going to be lots of fun now mixing it up with you back, Welcome friend! Rob Roy 1 Quote
wombatie Posted August 31, 2014 Report Posted August 31, 2014 I wondered where you were. Figured you had taken Marg on a long needed holiday. Ok I guess I was wrong. Thanks for the BBC photos saw them this afternoon. Marg Rob Roy 1 Quote
Phantom Scroller Posted August 31, 2014 Report Posted August 31, 2014 That says it all Rob it's not gremlins, it's the little people them Dell PC'S are made by the Irish. nice your back I was having withdraw symptoms no verbal abuse except from Larry and Marg. wombatie and Rob Roy 2 Quote
Rob Roy Posted August 31, 2014 Author Report Posted August 31, 2014 That says it all Rob it's not gremlins, it's the little people them Dell PC'S are made by the Irish. nice your back I was having withdraw symptoms no verbal abuse except from Larry and Marg. Well Roly, the Dell machine is the one which was the replacement,(a FREEBY) wouldn't consider anything else....!! . Verbal abuse????. If you had heard my rant when the good machine went kaput you would never have spoken to me again, I even invented a few words I'VE never heard before,and I can assure you they were not GAELIC. Fortunately the BOSS was out at the time. The machine which went down was a custom build, (not by me I might add), which was overclocked, my first thought was overheating, but I checked all the components, all three hdds are fine, cpu fine and everything seems to be OK. I'm thinking nasty virus or worm or some such thing. So it's back to the drawing board, or maybe the Chairman of the FINANCE board ????. Anyway it's good to be back among all these nice folks. Oh and I got a lovely compliment from the BOSS. She said I had a brain like a computer because.............. I didn't know what to do next unless someone gave me instructions. The cheek of the woman. Have a great day . . Rob Roy bobscroll 1 Quote
Phantom Scroller Posted August 31, 2014 Report Posted August 31, 2014 Well Roly, the Dell machine is the one which was the replacement,(a FREEBY) wouldn't consider anything else....!! . Verbal abuse????. If you had heard my rant when the good machine went kaput you would never have spoken to me again, I even invented a few words I'VE never heard before,and I can assure you they were not GAELIC. Fortunately the BOSS was out at the time. The machine which went down was a custom build, (not by me I might add), which was overclocked, my first thought was overheating, but I checked all the components, all three hdds are fine, cpu fine and everything seems to be OK. I'm thinking nasty virus or worm or some such thing. So it's back to the drawing board, or maybe the Chairman of the FINANCE board ????. Anyway it's good to be back among all these nice folks. Oh and I got a lovely compliment from the BOSS. She said I had a brain like a computer because.............. I didn't know what to do next unless someone gave me instructions. The cheek of the woman. Have a great day . . Rob Roy So it wasn't the blue screen of death then, do it come on at all, is it the power pack.? over clocking and three hard drives OMG THAT'S A MONSTER. Rob Roy 1 Quote
Rob Roy Posted August 31, 2014 Author Report Posted August 31, 2014 (edited) So it wasn't the blue screen of death then, do it come on at all, is it the power pack.? over clocking and three hard drives OMG THAT'S A MONSTER. No BSOD Roly, In fact no warning at all, put it together again, no signal to the monitor, blank screen. Then I had a brain wave???????. Took out the graphics card,YES!!!!a duffer. Straight into the BIOS and all drives listed and working but no access to any of the files and the startup files listed as empty, so i've got more digging about to do. Can't even connect to the net so downloading a disc cleaner won't help. I'll try downloading some stuff off the net on to this machine and bung it on to a usb drive and pump it in to the machine that's down and see what happens. All 8 of the usb's are working too. I'm saying download some stuff, Ha flaming Ha. I'll click on the download button then go to ASDA (Walmart to our American friends) and do the shopping and by the time we get home it should have loaded,might even have time for a coffee as well, this thing is so slow . Yes it is a bit of a monster Roly 4 inch fan on the CPU and two 4inch fans in the case. 1 blowing and one sucking, and I'll be sucking up to the BOSS if I can't get it going again. . Rob Roy. Edited August 31, 2014 by Rob Roy Quote
Rob Roy Posted August 31, 2014 Author Report Posted August 31, 2014 Well Roy, your message took longer than you thought, It's Saturday. Glag you're fine and still ready to entertain us. I thought something was missing everytime I read a Roly Post. Fire away Thanks Larry, my wife says I'VE got something missing too but she refuses to tell me what it is. Sorry you had to wait so long for the post.This machine seems to be slower than I thought. Rob Roy. Quote
Rob Roy Posted August 31, 2014 Author Report Posted August 31, 2014 I wondered where you were. Figured you had taken Marg on a long needed holiday. Ok I guess I was wrong. Thanks for the BBC photos saw them this afternoon. Marg A HOLIDAY Marg!!!!!! we're both retired, so every day is a holiday. And it DOESN'T COST A PENNY. Rob Roy. wombatie 1 Quote
Rob Roy Posted August 31, 2014 Author Report Posted August 31, 2014 That's true ,i realized something was a miss but forgot it as fast as i thought of it.There's going to be lots of fun now mixing it up with you back, Welcome friend! You've been cutting far too many of those beautiful names and it's affecting your memory. I know the feeling well Kevin, I sometimes forget my name and my senior moments last all day . Keep up the good work. Rob Roy. Quote
Rob Roy Posted August 31, 2014 Author Report Posted August 31, 2014 I hope you get the rest of the out real soon. jellis I sincerely hope so Joe, as this machine is kinda slow to put it mildly, but I shall overcome, possibly. . Have a good day Joe. Rob Roy. Quote
Phantom Scroller Posted August 31, 2014 Report Posted August 31, 2014 Try a car battery and a jump lead to kick it into life Rob. sounds more like the speed of a Sinclair Spectrum to me. I used to build PC'S but I was never at home so packed it to be with the wife don't know if that was a good idea spend my time in the workshop now. haa haa. Anyway sounds like your doing the right things process of elimination. catch ya later. Roly Rob Roy 1 Quote
Rob Roy Posted August 31, 2014 Author Report Posted August 31, 2014 (edited) Try a car battery and a jump lead to kick it into life Rob. sounds more like the speed of a Sinclair Spectrum to me. I used to build PC'S but I was never at home so packed it to be with the wife don't know if that was a good idea spend my time in the workshop now. haa haa. Anyway sounds like your doing the right things process of elimination. catch ya later. Roly Hi Roly, a Sinclair Spectrum Oh Yeah. A Sinclair C5 can go faster than this thing. As for kicking life into it,I'll just kick the s**t out of it. You're dear wife is probably quite happy you're in the shop. Keeps you out of her hair and....... well, It's a mutual thing Roly . Rob Roy. Edited August 31, 2014 by Rob Roy Phantom Scroller 1 Quote
wombatie Posted September 1, 2014 Report Posted September 1, 2014 Your a typical Scot. Cheapskate. Marg Phantom Scroller and Rob Roy 2 Quote
Rob Roy Posted September 1, 2014 Author Report Posted September 1, 2014 Hello dear Marg, I'm NOT a cheapskate I'm just FRUGAL . Rob Roy. wombatie 1 Quote
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