Memory Express NW is a bit closer to Dalhousie Station. graham
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 11:13 AM, Shawn <[email protected]> wrote: > If you are lucky, it is the motor of the CD drive you are hearing. Or maybe > just a dusty CPU fan (or maybe power supply or video card fan...). I say > these are lucky because replacement is about $30 for these parts. > > If you are not so lucky, it could be your hard drive going. In which case, > replacing the hard drive is in order, and that means loosing anything on > that drive. (there are still ways you can try to recover the data > though...). But a new drive can be had from $50 and up depending how much > space you want. > > If it is just a CD Drive, a fan, or a drive, these can all be replaced on > your own pretty easily and at much less cost than a repair shop. A repair > shop costs approx $50/hour (last I heard, but I would plan for more), and in > a worse case, there is maybe a few hours work there. Your computer is well > outside usual warranty periods, so I let fear of voiding a warranty prevent > me for trying things... :) > > IF you need to replace your CPU, Memory or motherboard, then you are pretty > much looking at a new computer. The current standards/formats are a little > different than 5 years ago. > > Regarding repair shops, I would stay away from Future Shop, Staples, Best > Buy, etc. I would probably recommend Memory Express, Computer Rack, or some > other equivalent focused computer shop. But I don't know of any near a > CTrain station off hand. Memory Express south isn't TOOO far from Chinook, > but it is still a 10 or 15 minute walk... > > Regarding upgrading Ubuntu. I had similar problems when I first installed > 9.10. Enough frustration to make me look to other distros. In the end I > came back to Kubuntu 9.10 as a clean install. Though now it is giving me > grief with my CD burner, so maybe I'll try out another distro here sooner > rather than later... Fedora 12 looked decent. > > > HTH > > Shawn > > > > > Ralph Boland wrote: >> >> When shutting down my computer last night I forgot to close the CD door. >> The computer shutdown but left the door open. When I tried to reboot >> it wouldn't start up. By pushing the door I managed to get the door >> closed. >> At this point (or before when the computer shut down) there was a >> sound like a motor, likely the CD drive motor. This sound wouldn't >> stop even though the computer was shutdown. The computer would not >> turn on at this point so I unplugged it. I tried several times to >> reboot after plugging in the computer but without success. The motor >> sound restarted but the computer otherwise remained completely off. >> After several tries the motor sound stopped. >> The only thing I see now is to bring it to a repair shop. >> Can anyone suggest where I should get it repaired that I can reach by >> C-train and if necessary bus? >> My computer is over 5 years old (2.7G celeron, 768M memory, cost >> 600$ in 2004) >> but is fast enough for me for the moment. At what repair cost point >> does it make sense to just buy a new computer? >> >> >> By the way if anybody is considering upgrading (as opposed to an >> install) from ubuntu 9.04 >> to 9.10, DON'T! I upgraded 9 days ago. Since then my computer >> freezes a dozen or more times a day. Everything freezes except the >> mouse. Even ctrl-alt F-6 is ignored. I tried to find a pattern as to >> where it freezes but to no avail. The only way I found to avoid >> freezing was to not log in although it seemed pretty safe when only in >> the shell. I finally gave up and decided to do a fresh install. But >> I ran into problems burning a backup DVD. I have my backups from 9 >> days ago though. Then my computer died. >> >> Thanks for any advice. I can read emails ([email protected]) at the >> library or I can be phoned at 403-764-3681 >> >> Ralph Boland >> >> _______________________________________________ >> clug-talk mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca >> Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) >> **Please remove these lines when replying > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying > _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
