Explain How You Fixed It So Others May Learn From It

How are other people going to learn from your fixes if you don't post back here what you did to fix your problem?

True absolute true, but I think that some people are forgetful.
Why? Yeah why, some people are enthusiastic when they have fixed a problem without help.
When I have a problem, a problem where I must need help; because I did not early fixed and I try for fixing and I passed, than I am happy too.
People don't may forgotten that not all people are the same.
There are people they are not be afraid for solve the problem without help and there are people, they be afraid that they make a mistake and they get more problems. Be afraid for something is a very bad medicine in a humans life.

People are always wanting answers, and with posts/replies like above will only make people wonder what you did to fix it.

This is not 100% true.
In this case there are people they thinking and handling if you told, but there are also people that thinking: He or she fixed the problem, so what, that is his\her case.
What I try to say is: We are all humans and we are all differences, no one, but than also no one is the same at the other. Thanks heaven, must I saying.

I will. Definitely.

In the past I bartered with people thus they didn't explain how xyz got fixed, nor did I care to learn (laziness on my part) .. I was just happy xyz got fixed and 'carried on'

It is pity when people don't do that.
Because when we tell, how we do that, than have the other profit.
In the years 70\80 was I an Application Programmer and I was on Hardware area, not so crack.
But through the Computer forums just Like Pc Pitstop and Bleeping Computer, have I a lot things learned.
A Computer forum is a media for people they are not so good or not so familiar with Computers, by information what we get, would we better and better.
So people, when you have fixed your Computer without help, post here how you have do this.

Why wouldn't people explain how they fixed it?

Sometimes they are in a hurry when they reply and dont think to put anymore than "Problem solved" or something quick like that..... Quite annoying and disrespectful!

Hi all,


I belief that I had promised that I tell how did I fixed the Computer.
In this since, did I make a message with my words and I hope that my explain is alright.

I begin with the next:


How did I building a new Computer?


First I was looking for the case and other stuff what I want to have.

Then I had make my choice after information via Bleeping Computer and the Computer shop, did I buy anti statical shoes.

After good information from both, did I make an order for a Cooler Master case, Amd motherboard, Amd processor, Ddr3 Ram card and the Gpu with mark Sapphire 1 gb. DDR3
By the Cpu there was the cooler with a fan; standard.

After this all, I went to work.
I putted on my anti statically shoes, opened the new case and the old one:

From the old case, I took my power supply, checked or the ps were compatible with the screw holes in the case for the ps.
My experience is that not all ps'es are compatible with the screw holes in the Computer case. It is weird but true.!

It was positive, so I screwed the stand-offs in the chassis.
On the AMD motherboard put I on the CPU on his socket, I did the socket clam down so that the CPU is stucked in his socket.
Then I took the CPU Cooler and placed this on the CPU. (on the foot from the CPU Cooler was CPU pasta).
I put the clams of the CPU Cooler over the holders of the socket and just what I did with the CPU, did I thus the same with the CPU Cooler.
Then putted I the Ram cards in the blue slices.( I have grey and blue; the blue slices are for over clocking).
I took the Q shield and placed this in the special opening in the case for the Q shield. When you placed this, than you hearing a click.
I took my mobo with the components, layed this on the stand-offs, on that way that the connectors fall in the ports from the Q shield.
Then did I removed from my case the bracket for the Graphical card.
I took the GPU and placed this in the PCI-E slice.
I built in the Hard disk and the Cd\Dvd devices and shut on the adapters on the components.
Then I had build in the components, I did a test or the machine would working, it was positive.
I closed the case, after this did I install the chip drivers and other important stuff just like Wlan.
After this were the Gladiator born.

I have been through the ups and downs of an ongoing problem since January this year. Every month, I got hit with the same type of attack. Never on the same day, but the same type of attack. Strip and reformat my hard drive. The security measures I bought, wasted money as they just busted right on through and away went my C Drive.

So how did I fix this problem? When the latest attack came this past week, I went extreme to fix this problem. I changed Operating Systems. We shall see if this works.

Cast

Better is that you install a good firewall\virus scan just like Norton.
Comodo can you download and install as freeware and just like Norton, hide this your ip address and it gives you a very good protection.
You told that you have changed the o.s., that is not enough.
The most viruses or attacks from hackers will become, that some people don't take care for a good protection.

My machine is and was as tight as I could get it. Yeah I pay for AV and firewalls. It did nothing to stop the hackers. This new OS might because I Am No Longer Within The Microsoft Herd. I don't need to be a part of a herd to be a part of something. With this new OS, I've found all that I need to survive and do my job. It's actually easier, because my editors use the same OS as I am. Everything I did within MS, I can do with this OS. I am not missing anything.

Have a nice day.

Cast

Edited by castoffpolite, 26 June 2011 - 06:42 PM.

Further to my post last year, number 13 above...

CPU running 50-100% and very slow web pages loading up again.I repeated everything as per post 13 to no avail. I have spent 3 days searching, reading testing and trying everything that makes a bit of sense. Today, it occurred to me that the host files seem to be involved somehow, so I studied up on that as well. I found on one site this comment; “Editors Note: in most cases a large HOSTS file (over 135 Kb) tends to slow down the machine.”

I then checked out how to find and measure my host file and discovered that it had 33002 entries, equal to 1028Kb!!
In my Word application it filled over 500 pages!!

So then I had to find out how to fix that and discovered a MicroSoft "Fixit" tool for this very purpose. Downloaded that and ran it and "hey presto", my web pages are now loading up perfectly.

Of course some of research came from Bleeping Computers, but there were a lot of other sites I read as well, including some that were very old and untrustworthy.

I have advanced my learning, but I am still not much of an IT man. 3 days ? Well, better than paying an expert I guess.

I recently encountered a problem with a prog that I needed. I found that 7zip was not working for whatever reason on my machine. to fix my problem, I removed 7zip, and installed archive manager, followed the instruction given to me by rburk, and whammy bammy the prog came up and is ready to go to work.

For more info on this fix, take a look at my thread, Decision made going with Ubuntu in Linux and Unix under Operating Systems.

I've been on this forum at various times over the last few years. I don't give much advise on the forums because I'm either flabbergasted , or someone else has already given the answer I would have given.

I know that their was one time that I posted about a problem and fixed it myself. I soon realized after posting that the solution was something so simple that I didn't want to embarrass myself by telling you how I fixed it. It was one of those "I can't believe I was such a d*** a**!"

No reason to feel embarrassed, Booh-kitty.
I doubt if there is a member on this board, that hasn't had a "duh" moment.

The fix may have been simple for you, but someone else may have had the same question, and didn't know the answer.
Your reply may have helped them out.

Also, by posting the solution, no other members waste time posting, or looking for a solution to your problem.
They can move on to someone else, in need of help.

I had a doh moment once. Had just bought a new motherboard for my computer, had gone through and installed it did everything meticulously right. Plugged it in, wouldnt turn on. nothing. Checked the switch on the back of the PSU. was on. Took PC apart. Rebuilt from scratch. Plugged everything in. Still, same results, no lights fans or nothing. It was only then I happened to look at the little switch on the back of the PSU that switches power from 115 to 220 (it was made to switch so they could sell the PSU in europe as well) had somehow accidently been flipped to 220. anyway, flipped it back to 115, PC booted up without a single problem. Only took me like an hour to figure that one out. . .

You think that is bad?

Invariably when I am working on system I will plug everthing in except the power cord then wonder why it dosnt turn on!
DOH!

Ok Im old and can get by with it!

Last Saturday got I a problem.
The problem was that my drive was shared in 2, the second part was not assigned.
I didn't know that.
After my visit of the Computershop and what the Salesman told me, was I thinking, how must I fix that problem, because it was not possible that I could the drive restore with the OEM setup cd of Windows7.
Alright, I took my Retail setup version of Windows Xp home, via the Retail version deleted I the parts on my drive, then all parts were gone, took I the Oem setup cd of Windows 7, put that in the cd\dvd-player and look who's there, the big part of Windows 7, so I have now wether 1 TB store room.
So have I fix that.