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Feb. 13th, 2009 11:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vicarzComputer stuff:
The HP Pavilion Media Center m8200n has officially bit it. I was seriously thinking of upping the video card, scared to do so because I don't know how and not sure if I did that the tv-tuner & remote would still work. The on-board graphics were fine for speed as I only used it for tv watching, but it only had vga out and my tv doesn't allow you to change picture size with vga for some reason.
Now the hard drive has died. It had trouble booting once in a while, but now it takes over ten tries (disk error) to get it to boot, and when left on it crashes all the way to blue screen. Tried doing restores but it fails to find the hd at all. The refurb is only a year old, so I'm surprised. Does HP have a shitty reputation I don't know about? Either way, with both the graphics card sub-standard and now the hd dead...it's not worth saving. I suppose I might be able to get a restore which could change how it communicates with the hd - this worked last time it thought the hd was dead (and didn't it just update?) but if this is a recurring issue it's not worth the trouble. Good thing I didn't return the cable box & remote.
Love google chrome. I have to use ie for some sites or programs, and it's amazing to me how slow ie is and how often it not only hangs up, but locks you out of everything while it does. I don't know why google is faster even with just one screen running, but I'm not addicted and can't stand sitting around waiting for a fussy ie page to load. Firefox is also slow, so I've cut all the shortcuts even while I retained the program (for now).
The HP Pavilion Media Center m8200n has officially bit it. I was seriously thinking of upping the video card, scared to do so because I don't know how and not sure if I did that the tv-tuner & remote would still work. The on-board graphics were fine for speed as I only used it for tv watching, but it only had vga out and my tv doesn't allow you to change picture size with vga for some reason.
Now the hard drive has died. It had trouble booting once in a while, but now it takes over ten tries (disk error) to get it to boot, and when left on it crashes all the way to blue screen. Tried doing restores but it fails to find the hd at all. The refurb is only a year old, so I'm surprised. Does HP have a shitty reputation I don't know about? Either way, with both the graphics card sub-standard and now the hd dead...it's not worth saving. I suppose I might be able to get a restore which could change how it communicates with the hd - this worked last time it thought the hd was dead (and didn't it just update?) but if this is a recurring issue it's not worth the trouble. Good thing I didn't return the cable box & remote.
Love google chrome. I have to use ie for some sites or programs, and it's amazing to me how slow ie is and how often it not only hangs up, but locks you out of everything while it does. I don't know why google is faster even with just one screen running, but I'm not addicted and can't stand sitting around waiting for a fussy ie page to load. Firefox is also slow, so I've cut all the shortcuts even while I retained the program (for now).
