I should take my old computer apart.......

I used to love taking my tower apart and getting all the dust and cat hair out of it. One time I even replaced a fan. Can't do that with these laptops that's for sure.

We've changed the fan , memory & hard drives in a couple of our laptops.. of course only after the warranty expires, but our used/refurbished ones only have 90 day warranty anyway..

Mainly takes very small screwdrivers, I think they do that on purpose, use very tiny screws...and they will strip out easy too...
most of the internal pieces just pop in/out..
each part has it own little cover on most of ours.. so less likey to put something in the wrong place..

and make sure no static or magnetic screwdrivers are around.. although I have used magnetic ones by accident and nothing happened.. but I don't go touching anything important like the motherboard or the soldered connections on it.

uh oh.
That's probably what happened to my last one, the compaq.
I used a magnetic screw driver with much delight. It was on its last legs though. I can't believe I did that.

I remember years ago having to degauss a monitor after having vacuumed too close to it. Ah the things we do.

Sorry for going so off topic judi!

One of my favourite past times

Go for it!

Ugh, bad day in computer land at my house.

FF crashed on FB again this AM so I switched to Opera as sometimes it seems a little better when it isn't running right. I was off FB and it froze up when I looked at a page of images and would not unfreeze. I tried Task Manager several times to no avail and finally tried to turn it off. It seemed like it only turned part way off or something, I had a black screen and nothing would happen if I tried to turn it off again or bring it back up. I let it set awhile and it finally came back on but loaded slooooowly and gimpy. Now it seems ok.

My question is I was going to get some of the stuff Jo recommended, Housecall, etc and then get Glary but I am kind of afraid to download something and over tax it? Can you have a virus or malware that is only active part of the time?

thanks,
judi

Well I managed to find the event log and this is what it said happened this AM.

Errors
HAL
WMT
SERVICE
WINLOG
SERVICE

Warnings
WINLOG
b57nd6
User per...

Error Security
Bonjou
Bonjou

It said,
"The platform Firmware has corrupted memory across the previous system power transmission. Check for updated firmware for your system."

That means I could have fried stuff in the computer, my modem needs rebooting or I might have a virus?

Any clues here to which possibility?

Did it say ... Bonjou or Bonjour?

It says " bonjou....." with the dots.

I think bonjour is Apple stuff? I get update notifications for something related to Apple but I think I looked it up and thought it was for something I don't have or don't use or something so I ignore them.

I should find a geek husband but at 67 years old I can't find any 23 year old guys who want to marry me.

judi

1) Its not the modem.
2) It could be a virus
3) Doubtful you "fried" your pooter.

Can you hold the power button down till it does a hard restart?
Does it come back on?
Did you get off of dialup?
What version of Windoze is this?