I'm so tired of pissing and moaning, but here I go again. I actualy had to drive into the shop to rant. I need to get it out!
I got home from work and set up New Faithful again and tried to get into safe mode. Dallas said that I should reboot and click F8 over and over again when the screen said Dell. It did not work. Mug, you have the same computer as I have. Can you get into safe mode doing that?
It was raining hard and the internet went out. When it came back on I searched for how to access safe mode. I tried it another way and that didn't work either. There were several ways to do it and I wanted to try another way but the internet went out again even though it had stopped raining. I waited and waited and waited and finally called Hughes net. After a bunch of rigamorole the verdict was that I needed an new modem and that it would cost $100. I said no, that I would switch to another service. After a long wait the price came down to $50. I still said no.
I was wanting to switch of something better anyway but there were problems with that, too. They sent me a fax so I could fill out forums but only 5 of 11 came down. By then I was so focused on poor sick New Faithful that I didn't follow up :-[
So, for the forseeable future I'll only be talking to y'all while I'm at work. When I'm working I'm not chatty other than with real people.
Muggers, please tell me how you get into safe mode. I could bring New Faithful to work and fix her here if I could get her into safe mode. If I can't do it Dallas told me to call him. He said that he would give me the name of a smart computer guy to take her to.
End of rant.
I don't wait for the 'Dell' logo.....hit the power button, and start hitting F8.....tap tap tap, etc....you should get it ....don't give up...
I'm quite sure I did that but I'll go home and try again. I swear, I'm going to drink myeslf to death if this frustration keeps coming at every turn. I hate to call Dallas back and tell him that I have failed, but I will if I have to. He told me to.
Thanks :P See y'all tomorrow ::)
Liz, try holding down the ctrl key while you press the f8 key as you boot up. I did it and my laptop went right into the safe mode screen.
Quote from: wsantia1 on May 27, 2015, 07:43:38 PM
Liz, try holding down the ctrl key while you press the f8 key as you boot up. I did it and my laptop went right into the safe mode screen.
Actually, there are (5) ways to get to safe mode on a Dell with Win 8............just print this and try a couple....Willie's right tho "shift" F8 is one of them...
http://www.dell.com/support/article/us/en/19/SLN151713/EN (http://www.dell.com/support/article/us/en/19/SLN151713/EN)
Thanks gentlemen. I'll try again after work today.
I got her fixed. Nothing anyone suggested worked. I had one badass virus. I wasn't able to access safe mode after trying several ways. Then after bringing New Faithful to work with me I found that the reason I could not connect to the internet at home was not the fault of my modem at home. It was New Faithful herself! I tried lots of things that all failed. If I'd been computer smart I may have done better. I ended up doing a complete system restore. First thing after that I downloaded and ran MalwareBytes. At least she's working and is no longer a thorn in my side.
Sounds wonderful...... ;D good for you...
Great job Liz! I knew you could do it all along. ;)
Dennis
Great job Liz. ;D ;D ;D
Necessity is a Mother for sure :P I'm about sure that I wouldn't have had to do a complete system restore if I knew what I was doing, I tried to save files but everything was corrupted. I wanted her to work so I did what I had to do.
Quote from: LizStreithorst on May 28, 2015, 05:33:17 PM
Necessity is a Mother for sure :P I'm about sure that I wouldn't have had to do a complete system restore if I knew what I was doing, I tried to save files but everything was corrupted. I wanted her to work so I did what I had to do.
...just be glad that you haven't it long enough to load it up with 'goodies'..... ;D
Quote from: Mugwump on May 28, 2015, 06:05:41 PM
Quote from: LizStreithorst on May 28, 2015, 05:33:17 PM
Necessity is a Mother for sure :P I'm about sure that I wouldn't have had to do a complete system restore if I knew what I was doing, I tried to save files but everything was corrupted. I wanted her to work so I did what I had to do.
...just be glad that you haven't it long enough to load it up with 'goodies'..... ;D
Exactly what I thought when I couldn't save my files. New faithful even works a home! My modem here is fine. Shame that at the end of the billing period Hughes net will dump me. I figured it was their fault. TEC.com is in the works. It won't happen overnight :'(
I'm starting to believe that New Faithful is a lemon. She has gotten slower than Old Faithful was and once again will download nothing Surely I haven't f'd her up a second time. I'm trying to down load Team Viewer this time. I expect it will take a month before I get a message that the file is corrupt or the download failed. Should I take her back, shoot her, or shoot myself?
No joy with Team Veiwer :( Somethin' ain't right.
Quote from: LizStreithorst on June 06, 2015, 10:25:48 PM
No joy with Team Veiwer :( Somethin' ain't right.
Close some programs??.....how much ram do you have..??
I think that she's a lemon. I didn't have anything running except solitaire and your tab was open. Malwarebytes said that nothing was wrong. Still, she kept getting slower and slower and slower and slower. Before bed I refreshed her in the way that it saved my files. It didn't help. This morning I did yet another complete system restore and she is seems to be fine. I can see having screwed her up once because I didn't have virus software installed, but I don't see how I could possibly have screwed her up this time. I'll find out. If she messes up again I'll know for sure that it's something with her.
I reinstalled Malwarebytes and even bought the upgrade. I got google chrome again as my browser, and I'm trying to get Team Viewer right now.
You should have 4 gigs of ram.....right?
I don't know how to find out how much ram I have. I'm ingorant, remember? :-[
Quote from: LizStreithorst on June 07, 2015, 11:27:07 AM
I don't know how to find out how much ram I have. I'm ingorant, remember? :-[
lower left corner, right click....select 'system'....it's there ;D
It says I have 8 GB
Quote from: LizStreithorst on June 07, 2015, 11:38:58 AM
It says I have 8 GB
Nice....you shouldn't be having issues with that much HP.....
Quote from: LizStreithorst on June 07, 2015, 11:14:37 AM
.....Still, she kept getting slower and slower and slower and slower. Before bed I refreshed her in the way that it saved my files. It didn't help. This morning I did yet another complete system restore and she is seems to be fine.
Liz, does your satellite company slow down your connection after you use so many bytes? I have a client that uses a satellite connection and that's what his provider does. After around 1/2 a gigabyte of download they throttle his bandwidth back to a much slower speed.
Dennis
Quote from: BallAquatics on June 07, 2015, 12:51:24 PM
Quote from: LizStreithorst on June 07, 2015, 11:14:37 AM
.....Still, she kept getting slower and slower and slower and slower. Before bed I refreshed her in the way that it saved my files. It didn't help. This morning I did yet another complete system restore and she is seems to be fine.
Liz, does your satellite company slow down your connection after you use so many bytes? I have a client that uses a satellite connection and that's what his provider does. After around 1/2 a gigabyte of download they throttle his bandwidth back to a much slower speed.
Dennis
Good thought, Dennis.....and right on the button too, I'll bet.....
I think it does. I don't know how to tell for sure. I should have the connection through the phone line an a week or two. When I get the better connection new faithful will have no excuses.
After the third try I was able to download and install Team Viewer. The first two times it said I had it in my downloads folder but I guess it just didn't install. It worked the the third time I tried. I'm glad to have in case everything turns to shit again. I'll be able to bother some kind person ahd have him see what's up from afar.
I still think that New Faithful may be a lemon. The first computer that my husband bought a million years ago was a lemon. It happens. I didn't have problems like this with Old Faithful.
Yes, if you are going to a connection through the phone line, that would be DSL. Typically they allow you around 250 gigabytes a month compared to most satellite providers 10 gigabytes a month..... almost as much every day as the satellite allows for the whole month.
Once you get hooked up with your faster connection, we can try to hook-up if you still have problems. We need a better connect though because it's almost impossible to get anything done connecting across the Internet when the problem is the Internet connection.....
I'm game if you are!!!
Dennis
You're a darlin', Dennis
I shall bitch again right now just to pass the time while the Discus pics I want to see on Simple take their sweet time downloading ::)
I'm sure that you're right, Dennis. The satellite people kept offering me an upgrade that would be faster. I kept ignoring them and I swear that they made what I have now even slower. Perhaps not but it sure does seem so. I always knew I wanted the DSL now being offered. Out here in the sticks we are on a local phone company. It's called Bay Springs phone company. Bay Springs is a town about an hour's drive from me. They are a tiny company but they never give up. They're way behind AT&T but always come though eventually...
They make you jump through hoops to get their DSL. I finally jumped through all their hoops and I hope to have their service in a week's time. At least I didn't have to drive to their office like one of my neighbors ::)
Back now to look at the Discus pics that Kenny posted of his new shipment. I don't think that I'll see what I want but I might. He has these Cuipera cross that I need to take a gander at.
The pics I'm looking for have still now down loaded. This satellite service has to go. I've been waiting for these pics do down load for 2 hrs. No shit! I'd sure they'd be down when I got through with WC. Then I was sure they'd been down after my long bitch.
This piss poor service will come to an end soon.
I remember dial up.....good grief, start a DL and just go to bed.... ;D
I have satellite which is one step better than dial up although it doesn't work when it rains ::) I lived for four years outside of Mobile and I'm glad to be back home, but I got so have the wonderful cable internet where everything happened in a instant. I'll be long dead before we get cable here in the sticks.
I loaded the bags of moldy insulation into Charlotte to take to the corner for garbage collection. Still no pics of the Curipera down. I'll have a nice bath and check again afterwards. If have to wait till morning to see them I can deal with it. It's rather comical if I'm in the right mood do see it as that. When I'm not in a good mood it's not funny at all. There are developing countries that have better internet connection that I have here in the richest most powerful nation in the world.
Quote from: Mugwump on June 10, 2015, 07:49:04 PM
I remember dial up.....good grief
Me too! I can remember downloading a cd's worth of stuff from Microsoft that would take 48 hours to complete. Back then I had three lines, the phone line, the fax line, and the data line.
Through some quirk, Time Warner ran the Internet service through this one stop light town well before it was available in the larger local cities. Since then, I can normally download a dvd's worth of info, about 4.5 gigabytes in less than 40 minutes. If it's slow to download, the lack of speed is on the sending end or simply due to Internet traffic.
I hate it when I go to a client and they cannot get a decent Internet connection. I can sympathize with your predicament Liz.....
Dennis