17th November 2005, 10:01 PM
(This post was last modified: 18th November 2005, 8:07 AM by Dark Jaguar.)
Darunia, you seem to lack sense here. No, I do not have all the information I require. If I did, you would have an answer. Look, do you go to a doctor and just refuse to answer his questions because your initial complaints should be "all he needs to know, just FIX ME!"? That's illogical.
Now then, you tell me that "of course it would work on another computer". So, am I to take it you tested it on another computer? Was that computer hooked up to the same network? A different one?
You see, in order for me to figure out what is wrong, I need a LOT of information. I need to ask you a lot of questions to narrow this down. If I just give you a blank suggestion, it may not apply and could make it worse. Consider medication meant to have a certain effect, but ONLY when a certain condition actually exists in the body. When that condition is absent, it actually does harm. A doctor needs to eliminate as many possibilities as reasonably possible in order to get down to the nitty gritty. Diagnosing a computer is no different. And also, I'm sick of giving this speech. (No not here...) I could go on about how silly it is to just expect a random solution when we have no idea of the specifics of the situation other than a generic "it just doesn't work!". I'm helping YOU here, work with me!
Back to the business at hand, how many applications do you usually have running as background processes? More than that, have you either updated any constantly running applications (including your operating system) or installed any new ones recently?
Sorry, this IS going to take a while to work through, so be a little more patient.
Now then, you tell me that "of course it would work on another computer". So, am I to take it you tested it on another computer? Was that computer hooked up to the same network? A different one?
You see, in order for me to figure out what is wrong, I need a LOT of information. I need to ask you a lot of questions to narrow this down. If I just give you a blank suggestion, it may not apply and could make it worse. Consider medication meant to have a certain effect, but ONLY when a certain condition actually exists in the body. When that condition is absent, it actually does harm. A doctor needs to eliminate as many possibilities as reasonably possible in order to get down to the nitty gritty. Diagnosing a computer is no different. And also, I'm sick of giving this speech. (No not here...) I could go on about how silly it is to just expect a random solution when we have no idea of the specifics of the situation other than a generic "it just doesn't work!". I'm helping YOU here, work with me!
Back to the business at hand, how many applications do you usually have running as background processes? More than that, have you either updated any constantly running applications (including your operating system) or installed any new ones recently?
Sorry, this IS going to take a while to work through, so be a little more patient.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)