Cures for a knackered PC??!

[SUBBlue]

Sorry to bore you with this rather mundane thread.

My home PC has gone for a burton- I switch it on & all that happens is the fan spins 50 to the dozen & a rhythmic clunking from the base-unit that resembles a Pitsea whores headboard on a busy night!

Reckon somethings badly wrong with the hard-drive.

Can anyone recommend a decent reasonably priced local Pc repair shop around the local Rayleigh/Hockley/Southend area?

Although I bought it at PC world 2 years ago I really don't want to take it to the spotty know-it-alls there if it can be helped.

Ta chaps.

 

[BrettieAngell]

AUT in Shoebury mate, you wont get mugged off in there.

http://www.autdirect.co.uk/.

 

[RobM]

I had a chap called Vic Outram mend mine, cheap too.

 

[Bluesmanager]

Get a new one. Sounds like yours isn't worth much more than scrap.

 

[osymandus]

Your hard drives dead (the clicking noise is the heads out of alignment ) .
If your getting no display thats also another issue sadly :(

 

[duncan bulgaria]

As my I.T friend of mine told me when he came to have a look at my PC as it was knackered ' mate the only thing old old pc is good for is a door stop '

I have had to update my PC evry 3 years unfortunatly .

 

[Aberdeen Shrimper]

Bin it mate and buy a new one

 

[Southminster_Shrimper]

Get yourself a new hard drive....prob cheaper than getting someone to look at it anyway.

How do you know about that headboard sound tho?

 

[Firestorm]

You said you got it at PC world ?

Is it an e-machine , the power supplies on E-machines are known to be very suspect and they have been known to fry the processors on their way out

 

[davewebbsbrain]

Sorry to bore you with this rather mundane thread.

My home PC has gone for a burton- I switch it on & all that happens is the fan spins 50 to the dozen & a rhythmic clunking from the base-unit that resembles a Pitsea whores headboard on a busy night!

Reckon somethings badly wrong with the hard-drive.

Can anyone recommend a decent reasonably priced local Pc repair shop around the local Rayleigh/Hockley/Southend area?

Although I bought it at PC world 2 years ago I really don't want to take it to the spotty know-it-alls there if it can be helped.

Ta chaps.

May be worth sticking the HDD into another PC so it's a secondary rather than bootable drive. You may be able to recover photos, documents etc!!

 

[Aberdeen Shrimper]

Sorry to bore you with this rather mundane thread.

My home PC has gone for a burton- I switch it on & all that happens is the fan spins 50 to the dozen & a rhythmic clunking from the base-unit that resembles a Pitsea whores headboard on a busy night!

Reckon somethings badly wrong with the hard-drive.

Can anyone recommend a decent reasonably priced local Pc repair shop around the local Rayleigh/Hockley/Southend area?

Although I bought it at PC world 2 years ago I really don't want to take it to the spotty know-it-alls there if it can be helped.

Ta chaps.

don't blame you mate, they are a useless bunch of idiots

 

[Rayleigh Weir]

You said you got it at PC world ?

Is it an e-machine , the power supplies on E-machines are known to be very suspect and they have been known to fry the processors on their way out

Seen a few of these go - they often take out the motherboard, but leave the chip intact. I repaired one earlier this year - cost about £20 for a new power unit, and about £40 for the new motherboard...

 

[Firestorm]

Seen a few of these go - they often take out the motherboard, but leave the chip intact. I repaired one earlier this year - cost about £20 for a new power unit, and about £40 for the new motherboard...

My step daughters just went, i have a couple of working old pcs at home so I thought I might just swap the PSU over ....no chance, nor could i just take the hard drive and switch that into one of the working PC's instead so 15 quid off e-buyer and I got a niftry liitle case and turned the Hard Drive into a USD external drive and she can transfer all the files to the lap top she has.