Dodgy connection

[Barman]

Go and get yourself a pretty pink dell! 

You bought Mr and Mrs Piggy a pretty blue dell!

Actually Growler, get yoursen down to PC World and buy one of those - it was an awesome machine actually... for the price like....  

Thought you had to buy Dell online like?
Warra i know though ey?

It was cheaper at PC World...

[GROWLER]

Go and get yourself a pretty pink dell! 

Must say, Dell's been good apart from the original screen packing up after 5 days.

Just taken me 5 attempts to sign on this morning.

Why would the phone ringing cause it to crash? Didn't think broadband acted like that?

Do you still have a 'phone line connected into the modem in the back of the PC...?

I dunno. What's it look like? Mucho wires giblets and flashing boxes and general stuff 'anging around, but they all look connected like yes. If they weren't connected it wouldn't werk at all I presume.

Kin 'ate 'puters I do.

Start at the friggin telephone socket at the wall man....

One wire should go into the broadband router and thence via another wire to your PC.

If there is a telephone type wire which goes from the telephone type socket direct to a modem built-into your PC that might cause the issue....

Will you talk English, or even Cypriot man! Don't understand all this 'router and modem' shite.
Draw me some diagrams.

[Barman]

Go and get yourself a pretty pink dell! 

Must say, Dell's been good apart from the original screen packing up after 5 days.

Just taken me 5 attempts to sign on this morning.

Why would the phone ringing cause it to crash? Didn't think broadband acted like that?

Do you still have a 'phone line connected into the modem in the back of the PC...?

I dunno. What's it look like? Mucho wires giblets and flashing boxes and general stuff 'anging around, but they all look connected like yes. If they weren't connected it wouldn't werk at all I presume.

Kin 'ate 'puters I do.

Start at the friggin telephone socket at the wall man....

One wire should go into the broadband router and thence via another wire to your PC.

If there is a telephone type wire which goes from the telephone type socket direct to a modem built-into your PC that might cause the issue....

Will you talk English, or even Cypriot man! Don't understand all this 'router and modem' shite.
Draw me some diagrams.

Fuck that for a game of soldiers... 

Go and get a new one man - you know it makes sense... 

[Bar Wench]

Go and get yourself a pretty pink dell! 

Must say, Dell's been good apart from the original screen packing up after 5 days.

Just taken me 5 attempts to sign on this morning.

Why would the phone ringing cause it to crash? Didn't think broadband acted like that?

Do you still have a 'phone line connected into the modem in the back of the PC...?

I dunno. What's it look like? Mucho wires giblets and flashing boxes and general stuff 'anging around, but they all look connected like yes. If they weren't connected it wouldn't werk at all I presume.

Kin 'ate 'puters I do.

Start at the friggin telephone socket at the wall man....

One wire should go into the broadband router and thence via another wire to your PC.

If there is a telephone type wire which goes from the telephone type socket direct to a modem built-into your PC that might cause the issue....

Will you talk English, or even Cypriot man! Don't understand all this 'router and modem' shite.
Draw me some diagrams.

Honestly Growler a new one is probably best at this stage and getting yourself out of aol.

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/store/pcw_page.jsp?BV_SessionID=@@@@0436779330.1234517315@@@@&BV_EngineID=ccchadeghfglhkhcflgceggdhhmdfho.0&page=Product&fm=null&sm=null&tm=null&sku=971905&category_oid=-35614

This is what BM bought for his kid. I had the previous generation at work and it was great for three years, I now use it at home too and it is still going strong.

[GROWLER]

Trouble is, if I get a new one, what happens to all the stuff stored in this black box computery type thing with 2 flashing green lights on it.
I might lose you lot and all the other forums and favourite places I visit, not to mention all me documents and worky type things and piccies and stuff like that we all have in here.

[Bar Wench]

If you but the new pc from pcworld you can take the old one in with you and for a small fee they will transfer everything across for you.

[GROWLER]

If you but the new pc from pcworld you can take the old one in with you and for a small fee they will transfer everything across for you.

But this one seems to be werkin' fine once it's all fired up like, and providing no one rings like. I think it must be summat to do with AOhelL and / or the phone line.

[Barman]

Trouble is, if I get a new one, what happens to all the stuff stored in this black box computery type thing with 2 flashing green lights on it.
I might lose you lot and all the other forums and favourite places I visit, not to mention all me documents and worky type things and piccies and stuff like that we all have in here.

Buy one of these.

Connect the old and new machines together with the cable and the software will move all your settings, e-mails, etc. from the old one to the new one.

[Barman]

If you but the new pc from pcworld you can take the old one in with you and for a small fee they will transfer everything across for you.

But this one seems to be werkin' fine once it's all fired up like, and providing no one rings like. I think it must be summat to do with AOhelL and / or the phone line.

Well keep the old one then, don't ever switch it off and stop winging about it... 

[Miss Demeanour]

If you but the new pc from pcworld you can take the old one in with you and for a small fee they will transfer everything across for you.

But this one seems to be werkin' fine once it's all fired up like, and providing no one rings like. I think it must be summat to do with AOhelL and / or the phone line.

I was having loads of trouble with my old pc Growler  and it was driving me nuts  .

I am not technically minded but bought a new one from EBuyer last year and put it all together myself and it works like a dream. If I can sort it out I am pretty sure you can.

The mini mooses will also probably know a fair bit about this as well and might be able to help.

[GROWLER]

If you but the new pc from pcworld you can take the old one in with you and for a small fee they will transfer everything across for you.

But this one seems to be werkin' fine once it's all fired up like, and providing no one rings like. I think it must be summat to do with AOhelL and / or the phone line.

Well keep the old one then, don't ever switch it off and stop winging about it... 

I'm not winging, I'm friggin' growlin!

Good plan until....some random tit rings us.

[Snoopy]

Go and get yourself a pretty pink dell! 

You bought Mr and Mrs Piggy a pretty blue dell!

Actually Growler, get yoursen down to PC World and buy one of those - it was an awesome machine actually... for the price like....  

Thought you had to buy Dell online like?
Warra i know though ey?

At one time Dell was strictly "Buy on Line" or rather "Buy over the Phone Line" but about 12 to 18 months ago they finally realised that people in the UK get pretty p*ssed off with having to talk to someone who sounds like Ian Paisley (because their sales dept was in Ireland, presumably for tax purposes) and they did a deal which means you can now buy Dell at PC World (or Dixons as it used to be known). Mind you for all service issues you still end up talking to someone claiming to be called Bob or Janet whose real name is Ranjit Patel or Sunetra Shah and who is in Bombay.
The one advantage to UK customers in buying Dell products from PC World is that you can at least take it back and throw it at someone when it goes tits up. Also they can no longer hide behind the fact that the UK Sale of Goods Act doesn't apply in Ireland ~ as I found out when I complained about their service to my local Trading Standards.
I know many have had a good experience with DELL products but personally I wouldn't buy one if they came with a free car attached.

[TG]

Option A:

Get a man in.

Seriously, there are thousands of IT gonks on the dole making money on the side by making home visits fixing PC's for cash.

I've being doing a bit of this myself. 

Option B:

Transfer all porn personal stuff to a USB flash drive and re-format the thing (or get Option A man to do it)

option C;

And I agree with the rest, buy a new bugger. Prices a dropping through the floor at present.

[Nick]

Beware Dell. My neighbour has just bought a new one. He's had horrors with the Inidian call centre demanding all kindsof information from him to prove he is not involved in money laundering !

[Snoopy]

Money laundering ~ a whole new thread opens before me