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[hotel21]

The monitor packed up on my desktop pc several weeks ago and I had to press an old CRT back into service, once I blew the dust out of it.

On Sunday evening, turned the pc back on after a weekend away and it will not power up. Starts to make the correct noises. It fails each time after perhaps a second and a half and repeats. Guessing it's the psu I went to transplant an older one and failed at the first hurdle as they are incompatible connectors.

Looks like I will finally have to move from a desktop to a laptop. Anyone got thoughts on asus as a make?  Seems to be a few on offer at the mo with the i5 processor and fair ram and hard drive specs. Ta......

[Jimbob]

Can you not just get a new monitor?  your local freecycle will likely have plenty of crt's...or an lcd can be had from as little as £50...

Or is it that time for a whole new setup?

I could prob sort you out with a monitor of some descripion if the oof postal can deliver?

[tunnie]

If you need spare computer or screens, I could get you an IBM Tower, DVD play (think some I have do have burners) think chipset is 3.2 Ghz with 1gb of RAM. Along with a 19" TFT, all cables ect if you need it? Not exactly lightening fast, but will surf tinterwebs quite happy. Cost to you sir would be nothing 

[twiglet]

I've not had any experience with the latest Asus laptops, but I've had a couple of work supplied ones over the years. Overall impressions were not good. Found them to have a 'cheap and nasty' feel to them. Personally I don't think you can go wrong with a Dell unit. 

Just my own experiences and opinions though...

[Jimbob]

Sorry misread that the monitor had blown, not the PC itself...

[Jimbob]

Ive always been a fan of Dell's too..

http://www.dmxdimension.com/ is often a good starting point for seeing currrent offers.
Worth checking out the cashback sites too, often offers of £50 cashback for buying from dell.

[tmx]

Dell are apalling! the only good Dell is the Alienware n thats vastly vastly over priced!!!

Buy a mac and be done with it windows is dead and if you can't afford one do what i did and build a Hackintosh any intel based i system with the right chipset can run osx and its stable!!

is it GPU failure? my GeForce 9500GT died on saturday bringing a similar condition to yours so i removed it and am now using the useless built in intel HD graphics which can barely run the Snow Leopard visual effects Quartz etc

[MaxV6]

tut tut tut.....     


said the man typing on his 17" Mac Book Pro... 

Hackintosh....    slightly outside the terms of the OSX EULA.... 

recommending an ex Bobby do something not entirely legitimate eh??

my aren't we rebellious today   







   (cue sound of bells jingling on the end of tmx's leg, as i pull it good and proper....   )

[CaptainZok]

http://freespace.virgin.net/matt.waite/resource/psu/atxpsu.htm
Might come in handy to prove the psu is foobarred.

[hoofing it]

Brucie the next time your in Edinburgh there's a new place opened up at Newbridge(oppisite Mcsh**sDonalds)/Esso petrol station.
The company is called Big Offers and deals with stock thats either out of date or a company has went bust and they buy the dreggs.
They sell everything from clothes to laptops,t.v's and everyday goods

[Radar]

I bought a laptop a few months ago with advice from oofers and went for this:

http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/index.php?topic=36226.15

http://www.dabs.com/products/toshiba-satellite-c660-155-core-i3-380m-2-53ghz-4gb-320gb-15-6--windows-7-home-premium-64-bit-laptop-7BH9.html?utm_source=google&utm_medium=product+search&utm_content=Q200

You can get cashback via topcashback - mine just came through and do a referral via TBs link

Have a browse on dabs as I know you mentioned a slightly better processer.

The toshiba i bought performs fine but i only do surfing on it.

[Radar]

Also the bt website had some good deals

[TheBoy]

Dell are apalling! the only good Dell is the Alienware n thats vastly vastly over priced!!!

Buy a mac and be done with it windows is dead and if you can't afford one do what i did and build a Hackintosh any intel based i system with the right chipset can run osx and its stable!!

is it GPU failure? my GeForce 9500GT died on saturday bringing a similar condition to yours so i removed it and am now using the useless built in intel HD graphics which can barely run the Snow Leopard visual effects Quartz etc

Got to disagree. Dell provide decent desktop at decent prices. Whether for business or for home use.  If you have specific needs, then custom diy is an answer, but for most (non gamers) home users, an i5 Vostro (eg, 430) is hard to beat for value.

When crApple finally fully wall the Mac, only the true fanboys will still use one 

As to the Intel HD (which one, the old X4500, or 2000?) struggling to run the GUI, that shows how inefficient the OSX drivers are. We except Linux/Unix/OSX to be slow, due to the bloated nature of X11, but its a perfectly capable video subsystem (for non gamers), even at 1920x1080.

I agree Windows needs to add some flare, but crApple's attenpt is even staler

[TheBoy]

The monitor packed up on my desktop pc several weeks ago and I had to press an old CRT back into service, once I blew the dust out of it.

On Sunday evening, turned the pc back on after a weekend away and it will not power up. Starts to make the correct noises. It fails each time after perhaps a second and a half and repeats. Guessing it's the psu I went to transplant an older one and failed at the first hurdle as they are incompatible connectors.

Looks like I will finally have to move from a desktop to a laptop. Anyone got thoughts on asus as a make?  Seems to be a few on offer at the mo with the i5 processor and fair ram and hard drive specs. Ta......

Any beep codes?


As to ASUS, wouldn't wish them on my worst enemy.

[hotel21]

No beep codes, don't think it keeps powered enough to even get to the start of post. Literally, power button lights (and fan noise etc) for a fraction of a second then blanks/shuts down. Fraction later, does same again then repeats for perhaps 20 seconds total then shuts dead.  Given that, thinking psu but probably just guessing.