Pesky PC - random shutdowns *shakes fist* - wha'gwan?
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hiraethified
Guess what? The fucking third machine has just died with the same Error Code 0xc0000001 blue screen. Just like the last one, it fucked up after saying it needed to restart for a Windows Update - I almost knew it was going to happen when I hit 'restart'
It's now in a blue screen loop and nothing seems to get it out of it.
Seeing as the trigger for this seems to be the Windows Update, has anyone any ideas what might be causing it? I've only got a mouse/keyboard and two monitor attached so I can't think it's going to be any external hardware.
On another note, I'd love to shove the fucking thing out of the window right now.
It's now in a blue screen loop and nothing seems to get it out of it.
Seeing as the trigger for this seems to be the Windows Update, has anyone any ideas what might be causing it? I've only got a mouse/keyboard and two monitor attached so I can't think it's going to be any external hardware.
On another note, I'd love to shove the fucking thing out of the window right now.
Have you tried this ? http://all4naija.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/error-code-0xc0000001-in-windows-8.html
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hiraethified
Tried it last night. It doesn't get to the repair screen.
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hiraethified
Windows 8 is certainly looking to be the prime suspect here.
I'm now enjoying the deep joys of DOS with their tech guy.
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hiraethified
I didn't pay £1k to start fannying about with installing operating systems myself.
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hiraethified
Feel my pain!been popping in and out of this thread for (what seems like) ages now
Hope you get it sorted soon;
If I had the software, I'd get a Mac now. Or an Amiga. Or a clockwork Colossus machine.
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hiraethified
I've always said good things about Macs. They're lovely machines.Quoted for posterity
de_dog
Mickey! Mickey from Leicester
!Mac (and I'm not bating I promise).
I went from homebuilt (effectively what you have I think) to Dell and haven't looked back. (XPS17 i7 8gb. The only thing I worry about is the left side of the keyboard)
Should really dig out my Amiga soon to rescue the Med3.21 tunes from the 90's. It was last seen covered in coffee granules 2 moves ago.
I went from homebuilt (effectively what you have I think) to Dell and haven't looked back. (XPS17 i7 8gb. The only thing I worry about is the left side of the keyboard)
Should really dig out my Amiga soon to rescue the Med3.21 tunes from the 90's. It was last seen covered in coffee granules 2 moves ago.
I felt your pain with a £1k Dell lappy and Windows Vista (*spit*)! tbh, I kinda wish I'd had the serial / total failures you're experiencing at the moment - because it might've driven me to return the machine sharpish, instead of going through a good year or three of factory resets, BSODs, etc, etc, etc...
Good luck with your next machine!
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hiraethified
So here's the latest update. The comoany first offered to send me a SSD drive loaded with Windows 7 for me to install. I said no. I didn't spend all that money to be fucking about with opening up boxes and installing things myself. Then they offered to replace the current machine with a Windows 7 version. I said no, because after three shit machines I have no faith in their ability to provide a correctly configured PC.
I've asked for an immediate refund and suggested some compensation wouldn't go amiss considering the amount of hassle and inconvenience they've put me through (I've lost a fair bit of work as a result of this pissing about and the new BrixBuzz mag missed its deadline).
Interestingly enough, I went to put the hard drive back in (their tech guy asked me to remove it to try and boot the machine up during yesterday's DOS-fest) and noticed the SSD connector was well fucked up.
It looks like there's some really shoddy workmanship going on at Palicomp. I am seriously unimpressed.
I've asked for an immediate refund and suggested some compensation wouldn't go amiss considering the amount of hassle and inconvenience they've put me through (I've lost a fair bit of work as a result of this pissing about and the new BrixBuzz mag missed its deadline).
Interestingly enough, I went to put the hard drive back in (their tech guy asked me to remove it to try and boot the machine up during yesterday's DOS-fest) and noticed the SSD connector was well fucked up.
It looks like there's some really shoddy workmanship going on at Palicomp. I am seriously unimpressed.
stuff_it
Too skool for cool
'I remember when all this were DOS'
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hiraethified
What's the odds on this lot trying to blame me for that now?
Sunray
Its sunny somewhere.
Yeah, how do you do that? All the connectors are flush into the plastic. If that is the boot disk, I also suspect that is the problem. With windows you can lose any other disk and it just disappears, if its the OS disk is will just blue screen pretty much straight away.
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hiraethified
I've no idea how it managed to get in that state. The SSD worked for a while though.
Sunray
Its sunny somewhere.
I would go as far as to say that that connector is in such a state that the disk is fucked. I certainly wouldn't want to have to trust it.
Did you return the system, they sort it and return it back? If that is the same disk across all the machines you have had, I would point a finger at it. Its highly suspect. Personally I'd be putting another disk onto the machine and installing Windows7 onto that to see it that was reliable.
Did you return the system, they sort it and return it back? If that is the same disk across all the machines you have had, I would point a finger at it. Its highly suspect. Personally I'd be putting another disk onto the machine and installing Windows7 onto that to see it that was reliable.
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
From the sound of things it would have been less effort to build your own.
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hiraethified
No thanks. I left the world of fiddling about with computer innards and cables a long time ago. At least, I thought I had.
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hiraethified
I think this machine is the same as the 1st one, which would suggest the SSD got damaged somewhere along the line.
I'm sending it back to day. If I don't get a straight refund I'm going to go mental.
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
Right, don't bite my hand off here, but...
...You say you spent £1K on it? Assuming you get a refund, have you got your own monitors? Coz you really could get a fairly well spec'd Mac Mini for that.
Or is there a heap of software you'd have to fork out for again?
...You say you spent £1K on it? Assuming you get a refund, have you got your own monitors? Coz you really could get a fairly well spec'd Mac Mini for that.
Or is there a heap of software you'd have to fork out for again?
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hiraethified
The Mac Mini is not a practical alternative. Not enough memory, not enough USB ports, not enough flexibility, not enough everything really.
And then there's the cost of buying a ton of software.
No thanks.
bi0boy
Power User
It's generally less hassle because you can spec your own components and ensure the thing is reliable. Much easier nowadays too, no more jumpers and IRQ conflicts and all that jazz.
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