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Re: Windows 10 Update Destroyed My Desk-Top PC. Need Help.

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On 7/16/2016 12:08, Johnny B Good wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Jul 2016 01:28:32 -0500, Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. wrote:
>
>> On 7/15/2016 21:39, Johnny B Good wrote:
>>> On Fri, 15 Jul 2016 19:38:27 -0500, Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. wrote:
>>>
>>>> PC went into a deep stall (it has been doing since the hard drive was
>>>> replaced--I can't afford another service call).
>>>
>>>   Did the service engineer not get it all working again?
>>
>> I'm going to call Monday and ask for a recount.
>>>
>>>
>>>> So the next time I got control back I rebooted it.
>>>
>>>   I'm not sure what you mean by "the next time I got control back". In
>>> what way did you "not have control"?
>>
>> During the stall I get a throber where the cursor was (most of the
>> time--sometimes the cursor disappears) and sometimes the screen fades
>> and I get a "[somebody] is not responding" message.
>>
>> Eventually it comes back alive, as if nothing was wrong--that is
>> "getting control again".
>
>  Oh, I see (I think - what is a "throber"?).

The generic term for devices like spinning clocks, syncopated trails of 
dots in a circle, in the instant case a small circle that appears to be 
a snake eating its tail where mouse-pointer last was.

  Most times, hardware
> problems just cause the OS to lock or crash. However, SATA now offers a
> hardware method to stall things in a non-crashy way (basically,
> intermittent contacts in the data cable connection interrupting the data
> and control signal flow).
>
>  If you have intermittent SATA connection issues, the classic "Give it a
> firm thump" remedy often unsticks things (usually it's enough to slap the
> side of the case gently to effect a 'cure'). When the PC stalls due to
> SATA connector problems (identified by it responding to a slap against
> the side of the case), you can effect a more permanent cure by reseating
> or swapping out the cable at a more convenient time later on.

At this point I'll the tech company tomorrow ans see where that leads.

Thanks for the info.

[prune]

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Windows 10 Update Destroyed My Desk-Top PC. Need Help. "Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr." <lfsheldon@gmail.com> - 2016-07-15 19:38 -0500
  Re: Windows 10 Update Destroyed My Desk-Top PC. Need Help. Johnny B Good <johnny-b-good@invalid.ntlworld.com> - 2016-07-16 02:39 +0000
    Re: Windows 10 Update Destroyed My Desk-Top PC. Need Help. "Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr." <lfsheldon@gmail.com> - 2016-07-16 01:28 -0500
      Re: Windows 10 Update Destroyed My Desk-Top PC. Need Help. Johnny B Good <johnny-b-good@invalid.ntlworld.com> - 2016-07-16 17:08 +0000
        Re: Windows 10 Update Destroyed My Desk-Top PC. Need Help. "Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr." <lfsheldon@gmail.com> - 2016-07-17 13:26 -0500
          Re: Windows 10 Update Destroyed My Desk-Top PC. Need Help. Bob Eager <news0006@eager.cx> - 2016-07-17 20:46 +0000
            Re: Windows 10 Update Destroyed My Desk-Top PC. Need Help. "Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr." <lfsheldon@gmail.com> - 2016-07-17 18:38 -0500
    Re: Windows 10 Update Destroyed My Desk-Top PC. Need Help. Larry Sheldon <lfsheldon@gmail.com> - 2016-07-22 14:34 -0500
  Re: Windows 10 Update Destroyed My Desk-Top PC. Need Help. British Rocket Group <no_email@invalid.invalid> - 2016-08-06 20:50 +0000

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