Hello all
So as the title may imply, a friend has attempted fix my computer and things did not go as planned
Long story short, a different friend of mine built me a desktop about 7 years ago and I loved it. About 5 years later, I got a blue screen with a bunch of jibberish on it. I don't know how to read jibberish so I brought it to a computer shop and they were nice enough to take about $400 of my money and replace my harddrive. Seems excessive for sub-$100 part but I was in a bind. Fast-forward about 2 years to current time and apparently my hard drive is in the middle of going out(or so I'm told by more than one person). So I order a hardrive and some upgraded RAM for the machine
Without going into a rant, some CPU pins got bent during RAM installation and one of the cooling fans from the CPU stopped working. The installation disk gave a blue screen or a split second and then the computer went out again. I put the old RAM back in and was able to finish installation. The machine boots nicely but apparently it has no drivers for anything and my display in only taking up about half of my monitor. I have no idea were to go from here but I fear bad news for the computer itself. I have googled some stuff but currently I'm just very frustrated and am going to drink another beer....
So as the title may imply, a friend has attempted fix my computer and things did not go as planned
Long story short, a different friend of mine built me a desktop about 7 years ago and I loved it. About 5 years later, I got a blue screen with a bunch of jibberish on it. I don't know how to read jibberish so I brought it to a computer shop and they were nice enough to take about $400 of my money and replace my harddrive. Seems excessive for sub-$100 part but I was in a bind. Fast-forward about 2 years to current time and apparently my hard drive is in the middle of going out(or so I'm told by more than one person). So I order a hardrive and some upgraded RAM for the machine
Without going into a rant, some CPU pins got bent during RAM installation and one of the cooling fans from the CPU stopped working. The installation disk gave a blue screen or a split second and then the computer went out again. I put the old RAM back in and was able to finish installation. The machine boots nicely but apparently it has no drivers for anything and my display in only taking up about half of my monitor. I have no idea were to go from here but I fear bad news for the computer itself. I have googled some stuff but currently I'm just very frustrated and am going to drink another beer....