[Closed] What's annoying you currently? (Complaining now banned)

It may have warped slightly if it's been stored somewhere it shouldn't?

I sometimes find that CD-Rs that have been labelled with one of those CD labels with homemade artwork play fine until the last few cues. The heat of the PC somehow warps the disc. I had to rip the CD-R using a portable CD player plugged into the PC that didn't generate as much heat.

Sometimes a gentle bending of the CD fixes the tracking problems. Lay the CD on a flat surface and see if there's any warping. If there is then gently try and get rid of the warping. That may work?

Cleaning was the first thing I did actually but not with a wet tissue. Gotta give a try and see how it goes. Thanks!

It's not warped since it was in its own case all this time. It was in a box where I keep my PC's driver CDs and stuff. Must have put it there while trying to clean the room in the past. hehe

Aww man, this is so irritating!

I'm getting a new computer delivered (I assume today). I'm stuck at work atm and I've been looking at the DHL website tracking the order. It's out with the courier currently and I'm praying that my parents are home if it gets delivered!

Well, when I just arrived home after a long day of work and a night out with a friend (everybody in the house asleep), what was scheduled to happen did finally happen. My mother et al. have put the (admittedly fairly old and sick) dog 'to sleep'. It was actually planned already a few weeks ago, but it was postponed due to her happy appearance and 'awake' look in her eyes. So I didn't really think it would happen tonight, but not being able to find her sleeping in the room did give me a hint, and the disappearance of her 'basket/bed' in the kitchen was fairly final. Pretty weird knowing she's not aroudn anymore over here. 'Annoying' is not the right word, but it sure didn't make my day.

Yeah, I know. It is for the best, so that's a consolation.

Anthony, you fixed it?

if your monitor has very high resolutions it won't be able to display the lower ones and you'll have to connect your pc to an older monitor first that supports lowers resolutions (the ones that xp transmits upon on fresh install), then install the graphics card drivers, turn the resolutions up, apply, restart and THEN plug in the new monitor instead.

That, or your cable is not correctly plugged on the graphics card slot.

Or your graphics card is faulty.

Or your ram isn't correctly placed on the motherboard slots.

yeah, the motherboard being tossed is another option apparently;

Dell?
If so, I know what the problem is.

Hmmm, OK.
There may be a connection then.

Mine was a bizarre combination of two specific Dell issues, one of which is well known (dodgy power supply) and one really odd one:

I found there's a USB-hub that, while attached to the MB (obviously) is actually integrated in the hood on my Dell machine. That somehow kept the motherboard from starting the POST.
I kicked it around a bit and reattached whatever cable could be reattached, and hey presto!

Of course by that time the "service engineer" (great bloke, but not an IT techie at all, really) had already changed the RAM, the motherboard (twice) and the CPU (twice), so I essentially had a brand new computer, but hey... <shrug>

Anyway, won't matter much for you now I guess, as they've taken the kit back to the shop, so you won't get it back (I presume ) until it's up and running again anyway.

what happened

Ass-holes.

Especially here at maintitles.net!

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

I missed my 2000th post party!

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