PC Repair

hedman2003 · 13-01-2008, 21:49

Could I please give a positive mention to PC repair at the bottom of Avenue parade, I was having mega problems with spyware etc however for £40 they wiped my system and installed new anti virus.
I know they had loads of problems sorting it out for me and I have to return with my PC as it's lost its sound but they will sort it out when I can next take my pc in.

The owners were really helpful and my pc works like new (apart rom the sound)

cmonstanley · 13-01-2008, 23:03

probably the same problem i had with my sound. did you check out your sound drivers/software .

i some how deleted my software but downloaded it off the web..

hedman2003 · 13-01-2008, 23:27

thanks

If you give me some guidance on how to do that it may save me having to take my pc back to the shop

churchfcrules · 13-01-2008, 23:35

if you have a windows key(bottom left) on your keyboard just keep that pressed, then press pause break key(top right)
a box pops up open device manager and in the long list of devices you should see a sound card mentioned, usually a simple delete from here the scan for new hardware should have your sound back on, the majority of modern systems there are generic windows drivers
hope this helps

cmonstanley · 13-01-2008, 23:37

im only a novice but if you go into control panel,then sounds and audio devices and then press audio and look at default device .

Neil · 14-01-2008, 01:28

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Originally Posted by hedman2003

The owners were really helpful and my pc works like new (apart rom the sound)

If they are so good why did they send out a machine with the sound not working?

entwisi · 14-01-2008, 08:51

cause they didn't bother testing it?

I guess its a case of how much do they test a PC before deeming it fit for end use, Sound I'd probably include but what about testing usb to make sure its supporting v2 and not falling back to 1.1? It probably comes down to cost, the more they test the more it will cost the user.

Neil · 14-01-2008, 08:52

How can you not notice the sound not working when windows starts up?

entwisi · 14-01-2008, 09:47

by not having speakers plugged in?

MITZY · 14-01-2008, 15:03

Wondered if anyone could help, I recently changed from Firefox back to Internet Explorer now I find I cannot open the links in my email for example on freecycle reply to this post click nothing happens. anyone know what I can do without it costing a small fortune.

entwisi · 14-01-2008, 15:29

In IE click Tools, Internet Options, choose the Programs tab and make sure the "Internet explorer should check it is the default browser" option is ticked. If not, tick it and restart IE, when it promts to make it default click yes

I 'd liek to understand why your going back though?

MITZY · 14-01-2008, 15:51

With Firefox I was forever getting a message encountered a problem etc etc. Anyway thanks for info.

churchfcrules · 14-01-2008, 17:56

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Originally Posted by MITZY

With Firefox I was forever getting a message encountered a problem etc etc. Anyway thanks for info.

try safari, its what you get on moc os x, but they do a pc version now

entwisi · 14-01-2008, 21:04

Which last time I looked had a rather large security problem.

For a real solution on Windows try Opera Opera browser: Home page.

However, it sounds that you just had a dodgy install, try downloading the latest version and reinstalling.
I would recommend Opera however with these things it is about finding one that works hopw your brain is wired. Opera suits me and being cross platform I use it on Linux at home and Windows at work(no option on that)

mr_flibble · 18-01-2008, 22:54

PC repair? is this the company with the shop next to the lingerie shop? if so they are idiots in no uncertain terms. One of their guys turned up at the offices i used to work in as he wanted to get the company into a 12 month service contract and he was a total waste of time, all they wanted was a new pc hooking up and connecting to the network and he barely even managed that. He was in fact more interested in ordering his burger over the phone.