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[AngryPixel]

One of your friends has sent you a message which he has also sent to alot of friends. It isn't a glitch or bug.

No it isnt like that.. it shows as a single message in the notification. When i opened it. It has 5 messages. Something which happens when you chat with someone. But first message is from one friend, then 3 messages are from another and then one message from another friend.



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AngryPixel added 1 Minutes and 42 Seconds later...

Now its confirmed.. The last friend in above pic is online. I've asked him and he said that he didnt send any message

AngryPixel added 7 Minutes and 36 Seconds later...

"Venu" is not in my friend list. So she should not be able to send me any message due to my privacy settings.

 

[Chewie]

They've gone reply to all...

 

[Chewie]

Annoyingly, my power supply has apparently caused a bad sector in my primary hard drive and done something to my ram as well. So all three need to be replaced which will cost something like $300 NZD. I've told them that I can just use the harddrive I recently installed (which is rather handy), but also to upgrade the power supply to 650W which keeps the price at $300 NZD. That includes labour, 4GB of RAM and a 650W PSU which I suppose isn't really too bad.

 

[AngryPixel]

Another annoying thing happened with me. Started my computer this morning and got this error "BOOT MGR is compressed" "Press Ctrl-Alt-Del to restart". I remember shutting down computer last night and so that was not a problem. Tried various things. Even tried removing the BIOS cell to reset it to factory settings.
Finally i placed my Win 7 disk in Optical Drive and installed the window in another partition. It solved the problem and i got two Windows 7 in Boot up. So i booted up my old windows seven, used Easy BCD to delete the boot entry of newly installed window and then deleted the files from the partition. All back to normal. Still it would be nice to know what caused all this problem. Wasted my 2 hours

 

[Chewie]

You could have used your windows 7 cd to repair the boot loader instead of reinstalling it...

 

[AngryPixel]

Wouldn't that screw up the steam account?? I didnt wanna download all of the games again from there.

 

[Chewie]

What?? What does that have to do with the steam account...

What you should have done is put your cd into your drive, booted from it, and instead of installing windows, you should have just gone repair, and it would have repaired your boot process so you could get into windows again.

At least that's what I did when I had a problem with the boot loader. Dunno if it'd work in your scenario.

 

[AngryPixel]

I always thought repairing using disc resets the windows like a new window with no additional softwares installed

Anyway, do you have any idea what might have caused this problem

 

[Chewie]

No idea why it happened. Repairing doesn't do anything to the installation And if you were concerned about that you could have used an ubuntu live cd to copy the files from your windows partition onto some external media before doing it.

 

[AngryPixel]

Did some googling. Found out that this happens when we accidentally compress the partition containing boot files. I now remember compressing a partition before shutting down the pc.
This is ridiculous stuff from microsoft. If this is caused by compression then isnt the Windows is supposed to warn user of this? Or prevent user from doing it.

 

[Chewie]

Maybe they didn't think people were that stupid

I've decided not to upgrade the power supply. And I told them I can reinstall windows myself. So the repairs are going to cost $234. And it'll be done by Monday. So when I get back from my hiking I'll be able to play call of duty

 

[AngryPixel]

As if you knew that

Is that New Zealand Dollars?? Still it looks like a big price for just a repair. When my Power supply gave up coz i dropped it the moment i got it out of shipping packaging. I got it repaired for 300INR that is roughly $6

 

[Chewie]

It's gone up to $333 now Originally it was only for one stick of ram, because only one was faulty. The problem now is that they don't stock that type of ram any more and there are no NZ suppliers so they have to replaced both sticks with a different brand. Apparently if you have sticks from two different brands it doesn't work that nicely together.

That's probably about $50 for labour, about 200 for the 2x2GB of DDR2-800 Kingston RAM (That's bloody expensive for RAM...) and 80 for the power supply I guess.

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DDR3 RAM is cheaper but my motherboard doesn't support it

 

[MattW]

Wouldn't that screw up the steam account?? I didnt wanna download all of the games again from there.

You can and should backup steam. If you just copy the Steam folder to another computer or partition, it can run again from that, and there's a built in backup to burn the games off to disc.

 

[Themer]

"Venu" is not in my friend list. So she should not be able to send me any message due to my privacy settings.

I don't think you understand Facebook messages. The first one sent a group message to you all and everyone that replies sends a group reply.