Blue Screen of Death - WiiTalk

Hooblue · 28-03-2008, 09:52 PM

It's official, my laptop is screwed!

Tried everything I can think of and been onto the the tech guys at HP and they can't think of anything else. Luckily I got a three year warranty with it so it's still covered. Off to HP it goes!.....

nutter · 28-03-2008, 10:01 PM

BSOD!!!!!!

aint had one of them in a while... its not the greatest thing either

Hooblue · 28-03-2008, 10:14 PM

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Originally Posted by nutter

BSOD!!!!!!

aint had one of them in a while... its not the greatest thing either

No it ain't. Luckily all my photos, films and music are on my external hard drive, thank chuff!

In a way I'm hoping they can't fix it as it'll mean they relace it with a sparkly new one.

wii_willy_winker · 28-03-2008, 10:34 PM

unlucky!

How much is a laptop nowadys which can run games that a 6 year old can play ( meaning not too powerful but powerful enough)

Hooblue · 28-03-2008, 10:43 PM

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Originally Posted by wii_willy_winker

unlucky!

How much is a laptop nowadys which can run games that a 6 year old can play ( meaning not too powerful but powerful enough)

How much did you want to spend? You can probably pick one up for about £250 I reckon and I know supermarkets etc do some good deals, although you won't pick up a big brand I doubt. They won't be very powerful aswell so you might want to spend abit more. For £350-£400 you could get a pretty decent one which will last a while.

See here

jeffandk8 · 28-03-2008, 10:43 PM

Sub £400 easily. Even decent specs can be had for just over £500. I remember my wife forking out £1000 for a P4 2.66ghz when they first came out. Oh how things have changed.

jeffandk8 · 28-03-2008, 10:45 PM

Lol just a bit quicker than me HooBlue! Tesco have some Dells at the mo for decent prices and Ebuyer are usually pretty good for an idea of price.

wii_willy_winker · 28-03-2008, 10:46 PM

My budget is about 400-450 had a quick look at that site and they are cheaper than what i thought.

thanks hoob / jeff!

Hooblue · 28-03-2008, 10:56 PM

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Originally Posted by jeffandk8

Sub £400 easily. Even decent specs can be had for just over £500. I remember my wife forking out £1000 for a P4 2.66ghz when they first came out. Oh how things have changed.

Yeah, I paid nearly £1200 for a P4 3.00ghz about 2 years ago (fat good that did me!

). Nowadays you can pick up one with a bluray drive etc for that (or a top spec MacBook Pro.)

Tetsu · 30-03-2008, 01:12 PM

Has anything been tweaked in the bios? have you tried returning them to default setting?