I had an old laptop which had developed loads of niggles, errors and aspects that didn't work as they should.
Recently we've bought two new desktops for work and I've got a little Acer Netbook, all are running XP.
Now none of these machines has had much use, I've downloaded Skype, Crap Cleaner, AVG etc to my netbook and for example, 'Stand-by' mode was working fine yesterday evening, I left the machine on overnight as I was expecting a Skype call from abroad and this morning there was a fan going but the machine wouldn't wake. A hard restart brought life back into it, but stand-by won't work now, the screen goes black, the fan continues and the machine won't wake other than with a hard reset !
This aint the sort of think that I'd bother formatting the computer for, but are random glitches and niggles part of computing... even on new machines ?
Myself and my brother once bought identical laptops at the same time, his was a nightmare, froze all of the time, sometimes even during start up, he eventually sold it for spare parts after several format attempts wouldn't improve it. My machine however gave me 7 years of use for hours and hours each day
Paul
Recently we've bought two new desktops for work and I've got a little Acer Netbook, all are running XP.
Now none of these machines has had much use, I've downloaded Skype, Crap Cleaner, AVG etc to my netbook and for example, 'Stand-by' mode was working fine yesterday evening, I left the machine on overnight as I was expecting a Skype call from abroad and this morning there was a fan going but the machine wouldn't wake. A hard restart brought life back into it, but stand-by won't work now, the screen goes black, the fan continues and the machine won't wake other than with a hard reset !
This aint the sort of think that I'd bother formatting the computer for, but are random glitches and niggles part of computing... even on new machines ?
Myself and my brother once bought identical laptops at the same time, his was a nightmare, froze all of the time, sometimes even during start up, he eventually sold it for spare parts after several format attempts wouldn't improve it. My machine however gave me 7 years of use for hours and hours each day
Paul
