The QOL Technical Support Thread

[WeeMann]

Give yourself plenty of time - it's not a 5 minute job and things will cause you problems along the way.

Give yourself plenty of time - it's not a 5 minute job and things will cause you problems along the way.

He will never be seen around here again...and if he is, he'll be fucking angry.

[WeeMann]

'Fucking angry' is his middle name!

'Fucking angry' is his middle name!

He's damned funny when he's angry.

It's been an awfully long time. It took me about 10 minutes to do mine...

It's been an awfully long time. It took me about 10 minutes to do mine...

No, not a reformat, this takes well over an hour. Then there will perhaps be issues with display drivers, video drivers, email set up etc.

Give yourself plenty of time - it's not a 5 minute job and things will cause you problems along the way.

He will never be seen around here again...and if he is, he'll be fucking angry.

Of all the things that could keep him away. Bloody computer issues!

It's been an awfully long time. It took me about 10 minutes to do mine...

No, not a reformat, this takes well over an hour. Then there will perhaps be issues with display drivers, video drivers, email set up etc.

Well, yea, he probably had to install a browser other than IE, get his email account logged in, the drivers should have loaded with the reformat but windows updates should take care of that and do take a while, esp on a computer that old. Maybe he went to bed.

It's been an awfully long time. It took me about 10 minutes to do mine...

No, not a reformat, this takes well over an hour. Then there will perhaps be issues with display drivers, video drivers, email set up etc.

Well, yea, he probably had to install a browser other than IE, get his email account logged in, the drivers should have loaded with the reformat but windows updates should take care of that and do take a while, esp on a computer that old. Maybe he went to bed.

...assuming he can get back online...that was my biggest issue once. My biggest triumph was getting Windows 8 off of this computer and taking it back to Windows 7, that took me days to settle it down, but it was all done by researching on Google (and I don't profess to have any knowledge). At one stage I had an empty black screen and nothing else at all, but I got it back. I'm sure Beligiee will make it back here some day too.

what are you lot talking about? i've not even started

i did manage to screw my external HDD with all my family pictures though

i unplugged it without disconnecting the usb drive, i disconnected the wrong plug

luckily all my pictures are on my computer, but if that blows too, it's the ending of all

and the HDD shop only opens at 10 am bloody lazy fuckers

finally finished the formatting / reinstalling process. took me two full days to download all updates (i think at least 250 updates )

my computer works like a charm, its super fast now

only downside, i need to reinstall my panasonic HD writer AE 1.5 program and i lost the disc the fucking program is nowhere to be found on the internet either

how on earth am i going to convert my AVCHD MTS to mpeg now?

finally finished the formatting / reinstalling process. took me two full days to download all updates (i think at least 250 updates )

my computer works like a charm, its super fast now

only downside, i need to reinstall my panasonic HD writer AE 1.5 program and i lost the disc the fucking program is nowhere to be found on the internet either

how on earth am i going to convert my AVCHD MTS to mpeg now?

http://download.cnet.com/Free-MTS-Conve ... 35048.html

finally finished the formatting / reinstalling process. took me two full days to download all updates (i think at least 250 updates )

my computer works like a charm, its super fast now

only downside, i need to reinstall my panasonic HD writer AE 1.5 program and i lost the disc the fucking program is nowhere to be found on the internet either

how on earth am i going to convert my AVCHD MTS to mpeg now?

http://download.cnet.com/Free-MTS-Conve ... 35048.html

thanks inny. but is that good? do you know anybody who uses it, does it work? does it install malware?