Wullie Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 The death knell has sounded. :'( Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnypd Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 that happened to my old laptop a few years ago. thought the clicking noises were a bit odd, so turned the computer off and restarted it. it never came back on until i'd bought a new hard drive. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wullie Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 that happened to my old laptop a few years ago. thought the clicking noises were a bit odd, so turned the computer off and restarted it. it never came back on until i'd bought a new hard drive. Aye, it started doing it the other day, I just closed all my programs and it stopped. Then today got a phone call off my mate who'd been using it telling me that it had clicked, shut down and now said "Operating System Not Found", which had me very worried all day. Went into the BIOS, did nowt but look around, exited and it just fired up. Currently furiously backing up everything onto my external drive before it coughs and dies. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 very sad. RIP Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlufPurdi Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 That's it fucked, mate, you could probably get a PC shop to retrieve everything on it, just depends if there's anything worth doing so. I had one that did that, a Maxtor, was a fucking week old, 100gig. No actual reason for it happening either, other than it did. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legacy Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 Not quite along the same lines but my PC will no longer system restore.. it goes through the process and shuts down comes back and says system restore incomplete :S Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GM Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 Clearly, this is what happens when you abuse your PC playing Bubble Shooter to excess. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
catmag Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 Clearly, this is what happens when you abuse your PC playing Bubble Shooter to excess. Oh shit........ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
junkhead Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 fucking hell.. mine is making the click sound too.. for about a month now i thought it was some fan or something Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitman Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 It's when it starts tapping its toe and humming as well that you're really in trouble :icon_biggrin: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TêteDeMaure Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 That's it f*****, mate, you could probably get a PC shop to retrieve everything on it, just depends if there's anything worth doing so. I had one that did that, a Maxtor, was a f****** week old, 100gig. No actual reason for it happening either, other than it did. That happened to about 3 new ones of mine. I can't have any more than 1 hardrive in my computer at any one time. 180 gig one went first , and i lost the bloody receipt. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wullie Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 Clearly, this is what happens when you abuse your PC playing Bubble Shooter to excess. Oh shit........ Looks like you'll soon owe the NHS a new PC Cath. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wullie Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 That's it fucked, mate, you could probably get a PC shop to retrieve everything on it, just depends if there's anything worth doing so. I had one that did that, a Maxtor, was a fucking week old, 100gig. No actual reason for it happening either, other than it did. I was at panic stations for a few hours yesterday, but as I say, somehow I got it working and it's been fine since then. I'm not expecting it to last, but I've backed up most of the important stuff so far. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlufPurdi Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 That's it fucked, mate, you could probably get a PC shop to retrieve everything on it, just depends if there's anything worth doing so. I had one that did that, a Maxtor, was a fucking week old, 100gig. No actual reason for it happening either, other than it did. I was at panic stations for a few hours yesterday, but as I say, somehow I got it working and it's been fine since then. I'm not expecting it to last, but I've backed up most of the important stuff so far. Aye, sort of read that bit after my post. Good you got it working, get everything off it. When you say it's fine, is it still clicking? If not... My start-up screen told me to "immediately back up the Maxtor (random code name) drive, a failure may be imminent." It's said that since the 31st December 2005 everytime I reboot/turn on the computer. Naturally, I did it all, got a new HDD and that, but thought, "I'll run this cunt into the ground", but it's a survivor... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
colinmk Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 Mine started doing this a few months ago, still worked for about a month then just died. RMAing it though to maxtor. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parky Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 I get a message on me Mac sometimes it reads: Around you today many PC's have died. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlufPurdi Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 I get a message on me Mac sometimes it reads: Around you today many PC's have died. Don't want to get into that debate, again, but it's the one thing Apple do benefit from, the lack of cheap and nasty parts. That said, if you fork out a bit more, you don't get these troubles. (Directed at no-one in this thread, just deluded Apple fans.) But then, you can't upgrade/customly build a Mac, can you...? Procs and cons and all that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parky Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 I get a message on me Mac sometimes it reads: Around you today many PC's have died. Don't want to get into that debate, again, but it's the one thing Apple do benefit from, the lack of cheap and nasty parts. That said, if you fork out a bit more, you don't get these troubles. (Directed at no-one in this thread, just deluded Apple fans.) But then, you can't upgrade/customly build a Mac, can you...? Procs and cons and all that. *Bluf congratulates himself on a well structured rebuttal as his monitor starts flickering* ^-^ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlufPurdi Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 I get a message on me Mac sometimes it reads: Around you today many PC's have died. Don't want to get into that debate, again, but it's the one thing Apple do benefit from, the lack of cheap and nasty parts. That said, if you fork out a bit more, you don't get these troubles. (Directed at no-one in this thread, just deluded Apple fans.) But then, you can't upgrade/customly build a Mac, can you...? Procs and cons and all that. *Bluf congratulates himself on a well structured rebuttal as his monitor starts flickering* ^-^ Good one. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChezGiven Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 I get a message on me Mac sometimes it reads: Around you today many PC's have died. Don't want to get into that debate, again, but it's the one thing Apple do benefit from, the lack of cheap and nasty parts. That said, if you fork out a bit more, you don't get these troubles. (Directed at no-one in this thread, just deluded Apple fans.) But then, you can't upgrade/customly build a Mac, can you...? Procs and cons and all that. *Bluf congratulates himself on a well structured rebuttal as his monitor starts flickering* ^-^ Good one. He has more time to think of good replies due to the superior nature of his machine Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlufPurdi Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 I get a message on me Mac sometimes it reads: Around you today many PC's have died. Don't want to get into that debate, again, but it's the one thing Apple do benefit from, the lack of cheap and nasty parts. That said, if you fork out a bit more, you don't get these troubles. (Directed at no-one in this thread, just deluded Apple fans.) But then, you can't upgrade/customly build a Mac, can you...? Procs and cons and all that. *Bluf congratulates himself on a well structured rebuttal as his monitor starts flickering* ^-^ Good one. He has more time to think of good replies due to the superior nature of his machine Another good one. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Knightrider Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 My old one did that a lot and I got two years out of it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Invicta_Toon Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 was it trying to communicate with the Dolphins? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 Get out of the water! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howaythelads Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 I have nothing worthwhile to contribute to this thread. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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