I Definitely Do Not Get My Fix from Hardware Problems
June 18th, 2010 June 18th, 2010 Posted in Better HardwareComments Off
1000’s of error messages pop up in a computer’s life span, right. Usually I ignore it, press Ok or else cancel and carry on with my work. That was until I had the similar annoying message keep popping up, every five minutes, something had to be done this critter was not going down without a fight.The message mentioned I had a problem with one of my drivers, I did not knew what a driver was so I searched on the the net for the drive guide or else guidebook and found some information on the same. I’m sort of on a cheap side, I will not spend cash on calling the engineer to repair the problem and attempt to find some technique to fix the problem myself. I read through this guide for a hardware fix and follow the directions to the letter. It was written within the guide to download a free driver software from there website and then restart my computer for the effects to take place. The moment my laptop started the back up it was really running very slow, I thought it was because the software was being installed. My pc slowly loaded and I began the web considering that the problem was fixed.The error message again came up on the display. I was so annoyed that I had spent half a day trying to repair the issue that was still on the system, give me strength! This time I was not able to get rid of the message and the display also began to flicker badly, the problem got worse. The next couple of days it turned impossible to work on my laptop and I was dependent on it for work. I had to take my laptop to a computer engineer, I had no alternative apart from this. I explained to the engineer what was happening and that I had tried to fix it for myself, the engineer took one glance at my pc and mentioned that the initial problem was simple to fix but that because I had tried to fix it for myself I had made it worse. Now, I had became an online scam victim as I downloaded a virus in the name of that software.The engineer installed a security software which he told me to buy and after that quarantined the trojan virus from my laptop and then fixed the driver problem. All of this cost me £200, if I had called the engineer earlier and would have not been so low-cost then my laptop would have been fixed in much less amount of cash.