Computer

[sglazier]

What sort of computer have you got?
I am on my dad's old iMac os 8.6 right now, but usually on work's system with lightning fast broadband. I own an eMac g4 but it crashed some months ago and I can't afford to have it fixed right now. How many of you have a Mac? I bought one because I reckoned I was some kind of designery guy but now realise if anything goes wrong it's a nightmare. I don't know very much about computers or anything but it would be interesting to know what people spend their days staring at...

[philandlil]

my boyf n i have a dell we've only had it about 3 weeks don't know what model or anything. don't know much about computers, just the basics like how to shop online with credit card!

[Thunderchild]

i built my own PC with a AMD Athlon XP 2600+, 512 MB samsung memory, ATI Radeon 9000 VGA card with 128 MB memory, samsung DVD dual layer writer a forthcoming to conking out LG DVD drive, a nearly anonimouse 15" LCD monitor, i use my mobile as the mobem conected via a hanna infrared to usb adapter medi@com wireless mouse and speakers, an asus motherboard that i forget the name of and for audio i use an old soundblaster 128 creative card that give less noise thatthe onboard audio and takes some work off the processor. the best thing of all this is that i put it in a custom case that is like a tv monitor on the front and pc behind.

[landie]

Mines the same but in dark blue, sort of navy.

[ridgie74]

if you have the installation disc that came with the machine, start the machine, and put the disc in. ( i am assuming it wont load the OS, but will power on.) reboot the machine while holding down the c key. It will try to boot from the disc and give you formatting options. you should be able to reload the system software without losing your other programs and data

[WoWo]

I have a Sony Viao Desktop, can't remember the spec but its something like a 3Ghz 1Gb RAM etc etc. But it's got hyperthreading which caused havoc with USB peripherals. (to the point where they were useless) so I decided to get another computer. It's a MacMini which I'm very happy with. I also have a Compaq Laptop and they all connect via a wireless broadband router.

I'd agree about the Mac, I'm more than happy with the MacMini but that's mainly because it cost less than �400. I wouldn't buy a iMac or one of the G5's because they just cost way to much.

[honkytonkman]

At home I use a Mac - G4 tower. It's running 0S 10.2.8. At work I use a G5 Mac, all singing and dancing.

With you eMac ridgie74 is right. It's running OSX, so pop in Disc 1 of the master discs; shutdown and restart and hold down the C Key (to make it boot up from the CD) Then you can reinstall the System Software. Any probs, post back on here and will try to talk you down.