[jameslindsay]

Yesterday my lap top just "froze" and would not let me access anything. It has been wonky for a few weeks but is just 16 months old. I took out extended warranty on it but what a joke that has been. I phoned up Comet and they told me to take it to my nearest store, so off to Dundee i went this morning. Here, I am told that they can't look at it until the people I phone talk me through certain things.......

I returned home and phoned the idiots again. They said they would talk me through taking it back to factory settings. I explained I had done this before when the computer was only 6 months old and I did not want to do it again as all my accounts and payroll are on it and it causes me serious grief to sort out. They told me there was no option so I said there were lots of pictures I had to "save" so I would do that first and then call them back. However, when in the "safe mode" the PC still freezing and I couldn't save anything. So, I farted about with it after I switched it on and did my own thing and lo and behold I have my computer back again. Thought I was dying without it yesterday. No idea how long it will behave for but saved me deleting everything, all the back ups are now done - just in case.

[Fluffywelshsheep]

very few occastion this has happened to me i have found that it was an vista update which caused the prob

Linz

[doganjo]

Absolutely right, Linz.  Vista still has a few glitches in it although it is good.

[kevkev57]

I have had this problem. A friend told me to take the battery out, back in and start again, and it worked.

Lucky really as I was getting to the ' brick ' stage when he gave me this sound advice.

Kevin

[Rosemary]

We've got Macs now. Dan thinks they are vasty superior to PCs. I have no valid opinion but I do like my little Macbook Pro.

[jameslindsay]

I have kept the battery off and just using mains electric. The test ofcourse will be when I switch the thing off tonight, will it come back on. I have to say though it is so behaving itself just now.

[ukag0972]

Comets service is absolute sh**e.
They gave had my sons laptop now for 6 weeks, all it needed was, I thought, was a new keyboard. It took them 4 weeks to tell me the screen had pressure damage, which I knew nowt about!
It was therefore accidental damage and would be refered to the insurance company. I had to email them to confirm how it was damaged!!!
So here I am, 6 weeks later with a 17 year old on my laptop, as he needs it's to communicate with the outside world, and I am damaging my eyesight on my iPhone!!!
Fingers crossed it's back soon!!!

[jameslindsay]

Well I have just closed the PC down and restarted - leaving the battery out and viola all is ok. Am I now a computer expert hee hee hee???

[doganjo]

We've got Macs now. Dan thinks they are vasty superior to PCs. I have no valid opinion but I do like my little Macbook Pro.

There is a constant battle in my family - a son who was brought up on a Commodore 64 and a ZX81 and Spectrum and a son-in-law whose mother bought her 3 sons all little macs for their 12th birthdays.  So we just don't talk about computers when teh boys are in the same room.
My personal opinion is that if you like and need a lot of pretty high res and fast graphics stuff like games etc then macs are head and shoulders above any pc, but for sheer hard business work the PC winds hands down.