My laptop is officially DEAD AS A MOTHERFUCKING DOORNAIL
 

tomorrow I am off to the computer shop to find a external laptop hard drive case to see if I can salvage the data on the drive

but it looks to be a motherboard failure, I am working it out with gateway now to see if they will take it back out of warranty because apparently it is a huge problem that everyone is having

but anyway, I am off the chats for a few days and only answering email, and checking the boards

like I told gonzo, if anyone sees one of those huge companies at internext giving away laptops, grab one for me!

Re: My laptop is officially DEAD AS A MOTHERFUCKING DOORNAIL
 

Ouch sorry to hear that bro, but I feel your pain.

This laptop has been flaking out over the last month or so, shutting off from getting too hot, mis-reading memory, and slower then 2 old farts fucking lol.

As soon as i can set aside 3 days to transfer all my data to a backup machine I can take this one in to be fixed or just swap it out for a new one, then take 3 more days moving the data back, so yeah

-Loki-

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now you have me intrigued

mine has been acting up for about 3 weeks....getting to hot, mis reading memory and getting slower...LOL

i think someone is out to get us man

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lol I don't think thats the case (And hell i'm stoned right now lol)

Mine is a Toshiba Satalite, the memory error from what the techs tell me is pretty commen, as this model is shared memory between video & board, however even after changing the settings for what gets shared the laptop still tends to error on the memory.


I miss the fuck out of my old Dell, that thing went through hell and back, yet like a timex watch it kept on ticking lol, it had 14 missing keys, broken hinges so the screen had to be propped up with a 2 liter bottle, caked mud on the screen (live broadcast incident lol) and had pretty much been beaten up like tina turner (ouch)

dropped, kicked, flown off a table, mud splattered, water issues, etc.

in the end a chip fried and pretty much took out the entire system with a power surge lol, but it lasted through it all, next time I get down the road to my cottage I'll grab it and take some pics it's still lives in the closet lol.

-Loki-

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Give it to Gonzo, he has a skeet shooting idea for when he gets out here .

Re: My laptop is officially DEAD AS A MOTHERFUCKING DOORNAIL
 

that SUCKS dude

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as fun as that sounds right about now, I have to try and get it going again, or at least save the data on the hard drive

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Bummer man.. good luck with getting all your data back.

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Get one of those USB fan bases. Might not solve your other problems, but it will at least help with the heat :(

Re: My laptop is officially DEAD AS A MOTHERFUCKING DOORNAIL
 

working on it now, got STELLAR PHOENIX and it seems to be doing a awesome job so far, been scanning for an hour though, no clue when it will be done

I am going to try and recover everything off the drive, we shall see how that goes

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Oh, I hate that shit.

And it's hard to keep a notebook backed up all that well. I use a one touch external maxtor to sync mine, but dont do it near as often as I should.

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well, what I should be doing is using my desktop and shit for my email, and just use the laptop for it's intended purpose, to be mobile...but I got into the routine of using it for everything because it was nice and powerful

now everything from my outlook is fizzled fried

live and learn

Re: My laptop is officially DEAD AS A MOTHERFUCKING DOORNAIL
 

all righty....the data recovery software has given me a list of shit on the drive

here goes nothing

Tools>Recover All

*crosses fingers*

Re: My laptop is officially DEAD AS A MOTHERFUCKING DOORNAIL
 

See ya on the other side...

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good luck bro

-Loki-

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the damn program locked up...haha

now I have to rescan and start again

BASTARD!

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all desktop files from the old drive have been retrieved with no loss

working on my Outlook email file now, looking good so far

just so everyone knows, I tried 3 different programs before ending up with this, BY FAR it is the best recovery software I have ever used:
http://www.stellarinfo.com/recover-windows-nt.htm

Re: My laptop is officially DEAD AS A MOTHERFUCKING DOORNAIL
 

thanks for the tip on Stellar Phoenix

Re: My laptop is officially DEAD AS A MOTHERFUCKING DOORNAIL
 

Excellent tip.

I hope I never use it.