Thread: thank god for linux.windows is a pile of shit

This was post #62 when you mentioned this

Originally Posted by ChiangMai noon

Quote: Originally Posted by lom Since the Windows partition was not shut down properly it is prolly a file system corruption. actually, couple of days ago, came into the computer room in the morning and the dog had got in and pulled the plug out.

Originally Posted by ChiangMai noon

when i tried to boot, i was getting some message about voltage and the monitor wouldn't turn on at all.....

Originally Posted by ChiangMai noon

i fucked around a bit and hit a few things and replugged everything in and then it worked.

Originally Posted by ChiangMai noon

maybe something happened then??

^
what's wrong with any of that?

Before Post #62 this is the info we had

First it's a virus

Originally Posted by ChiangMai noon

i have no idea what a virus manifests itself as but my windows shit thing is going blink blink blink..over and over and over.

Originally Posted by ChiangMai noon

fukking screen is blinking forever.

Originally Posted by ChiangMai noon

blink blik blink blink

No idea what this meant

Originally Posted by ChiangMai noon

my windows partition is blinking.

Originally Posted by ChiangMai noon

can't fukking use it if it's blinking on and off can I.?

Now it's just broke

Originally Posted by ChiangMai noon

it's broke.

Originally Posted by lom

windows is blinking.

Originally Posted by ChiangMai noon

won't boot right, just blinks really fast on and off rendering it unusable.

We are led to believe here it's not booting

Originally Posted by ChiangMai noon

i tried booting into windows twice last night.

Originally Posted by ChiangMai noon

it goes through the boot process about 5 times quicker than normal.

Yet

Originally Posted by ChiangMai noon

seems to by pass a few of the steps but all the while the thing is blinking on and off, maybe a second on, a second off but sometimes more.

here we are told it boots ok

Originally Posted by ChiangMai noon

the monitor.

Originally Posted by ChiangMai noon

blinking furiously, goes all the way through the boot process, through the welcome screen and then shows my desktop, no progress after that, just continues to blink.

It's like going to the doctor and telling him that you are crapping blood. He starts to diagnose you. Looks up yoour arse to see what is what. After 62 minutes you tell him you ate some broken glass the night before and does eh think that might be the problem.

Originally Posted by mrsquirrel

here we are told it boots ok

well it does and it doesn't.

it boots but it's unusable owing to the furious blinking.

i think i made that perfectly clear.

Originally Posted by ChiangMai noon

what if i buy a new monitor and it continues to blink?

It will continue to blink but you've at least proven them wrong.

^
do you think it won't stop blinking then?

Originally Posted by ChiangMai noon

it boots but it's unusable owing to the furious blinking.

As I said before Arse Elbow and of course COCK!

classic CMN :

it could be equally described as a flashing.

Originally Posted by melvbot

Hee, hee! Why dont you just put a copy of Vista or XP on it? Then you can be right back to what I suggested you do, buy a mini PC case and custom build it for a media centre.

the mini-PC case are ugly, I needed something nice and stylish, and that's what Macs do, they are gay and stylish, my kind of things. Windows XP or Vista is too heavy and take too much space, I want a small footprint. Thinking about putting everything on a LIVE CD with a Linux distro, so I can use all the HD for movie storage

Originally Posted by lom

It will continue to blink but you've at least proven them wrong.

FACTS: I cracked the case, you didn't, NEXT !!!

if i search for monitor works in ubuntu, but blinks with windows i get precisely zero results.

Try harder next time,

google ""monitor blinks"

My monitor (Packard Bell 1512SL) has worked fine for more than a year, but has of late, started to blink on & off (not all the time thought), no changes to mention, just it's annoying and I wonder if its worth repairing (if possible) or best to get a new monitor, (want to get new 17" or better) , but money is an issue now. Any ideas as to what may cause this blinking? Can go days without a problem, but once it starts, can only shut monitor off for awhile and hope it works fine after turning it on (usually does!). Thanks for any advice you can provide.

Flyback arcing ? Snapping sound ? The blinking is the circuit misbehaving because of overload. Purely a monitor problem.
A workaround you can try, is reducing either the refresh rate or the resolution (any stuff that affects the horizontal and
vertical frequencies). A trivial change like that, stopped the snapping on my old monitor. And I did eventually find a
burn mark around the flyback. But you don't repair burn marks, as the carbon trail left tends to be permanent, and
is there the next time the thing wants to break down and arc.

My monitor was damaged during a lightning storm, and the snapping started just after that, about every half hour or so. I ran it for another two years, at a reduced resolution, before replacing with an LCD.

The time for the surge suppressor, is before it happens.

The monitor is probably in the process of failing.

Originally Posted by Butterfly

FACTS: I cracked the case, you didn't, NEXT !!!

STOP trolling in a serious computer support thread.
Go back and play with your kno^H^H^H Mac.

^^

that scenrio isn't the same as mine.

Originally Posted by ChiangMai noon

that scenrio isn't the same as mine.

Yes it is.

Exactly the same.

Acting like a luddite just to his the 200 post mark is unbecoming.

Originally Posted by Butterfly

y ideas as to what may cause this blinking? Can go days without a problem, but once it starts, can only shut monitor off for awhile and hope it works fine after turning it on (usually does!). Thanks for any advice you can provide.

different.

his works usually.

mine doesn't, ever.

Originally Posted by lom

STOP trolling in a serious computer support thread.

CMN in a serious computer thread ? right

^ Have you tried lowering the resolution in windows to try it

Have you started windows in Safe Mode yet? Which runs at the lowest monitor settings.

I bet you your VFR that you haven't gone into safe mode yet.

Originally Posted by ChiangMai noon

that scenrio isn't the same as mine.

You must have missed that one,

Originally Posted by Butterfly

The blinking is the circuit misbehaving because of overload. Purely a monitor problem.
A workaround you can try, is reducing either the refresh rate or the resolution (any stuff that affects the horizontal and
vertical frequencies). A trivial change like that, stopped the snapping on my old monitor. And I did eventually find a
burn mark around the flyback. But you don't repair burn marks, as the carbon trail left tends to be permanent, and
is there the next time the thing wants to break down and arc.

My monitor was damaged during a lightning storm, and the snapping started just after that, about every half hour or so. I ran it for another two years, at a reduced resolution, before replacing with an LCD.

Oh look we are nearly there

how do i change the resolution in safe mode?

Almost at a double century on another of the noonsters inane nonsense threads