Windows password,

[mjb]

looks like the Acused is denying it all or they wouid of give me the pc back by now,

If the PC is registered as stolen, then it's the people who had it stolen that will get it back - eventually.

You're pretty much in the sh*t here. All you can really do is call your credit card company and tell them it was a fraudulent transaction. You should get your money back soon enough. If you paid by debit card, you're stuck trying to get your money back from Amazon - good luck.

[Gary406]

you gotta be carefull online these days especially ebay and amazon. to many people ripping folk off .
i had my pc seized this time last year. and got arrested in my own home by 2 officers. who then had a warrant to rip my place apart looking for a laptop i sold on ebay that the buyer said i hadnt posted .

i was then ordered to pay him back £330 which then i was a laptop and £330 out of pocket while some theifing f**kin postam was browsing the web on my laptop

charges against me were dropped and the police told me that my laptop is now on the stolen list so if they ever come across it it will come back to me. but that will never happen .

anyway it was the worst experience of my life. spending 9 hours in a police cell then got interviewed like i was some criminal. couldnt beleive it

since then i have never sold a bean on ebay and i never will again.

[sirwiggum]

Sold a couple of laptops on fleabay. The first one the useless buyer bought it in the middle of the month, then didn't pay. I sent a message asking them to pay, they sent a message back saying "Give me til payday". As I needed the money myself before my own payday, I didn't want to do this, but ebay said the buyer had contacted me so I couldn't do anything. Had to remain skint the rest of the month until he eventually paid.

Then, another laptop, I added a "pay within 2 days" clause someone buys it then never pays. Send email after email. They never pay.
I can't leave negative feedback. All I can do is add a "non payment strike" which means nothing unless they have more than 2 and you have to manually set your selling option to not allow buyers with more than 2 strikes.

When I eventually sell it again, it goes for buttons.

Never again.

Play.com are no better, when I list on it, the listing doesn't even show up!

[lozz]

Update: ive got my pc back,
and it looks like what we paid for the other pc is not going to be refunded in anyway shape or form

idont know what theyve done to this pc they took . but nothing works properly now since theyve been going through all the files
even tried the windows restore but its still the same, its locking up all the time on the internet

[Gary406]

just re format the hard drive lozz and re-install windows ... thats providing you dont have a lot stored on the hard drive

[lozz]

Cheers gaz,
unfortunatly theres loads of photos, Mp3s films etc,
iwill have to get a load of blank dvds and copy everything,

was looking into a new pc upgrade anyway as this is Dual core, might try something else out and break this one up,
and just use the hard drive out of this one set up as a Slave if thats possible, iwill try anyway

[Gary406]

slave ? so your on old IDE drives ?

if you need any help building a pc mate i know a lot about them and how to build them its p1ss easy mate ..

i built me a new one few months back cost me around £350 and for that i got this spec ... which is a bargain compaired to pre built price

motherboard is a gigabyte socket 1155
intel core i5 (2nd generation) 3.2ghz prosessor which is quad core
8 Gig of memory/ram which is DDR3 1600
750 Gig western digital sata2 hard drive
nvidea geforce GT 520 1gig graphics card

all in a piano gloss black micro atx tower ... all built by myself ...

[Gary406]

its super super quick now and thats with a disc hard drive

wait till i put a solid state drive in when i can afford the upgrade. it will be even quicker

[lozz]

ive got a IDE hard drive in at the moment because the old one started to click,
it shouid be running on moderner stuff but ionly had a spare ide hard drive at the time,

its not slow, but it needs upgrading ithink,
iwill just sell on the Board /memmory and processor to someone thats got a stone age machine perhaps,
so it wont go to waste,

computer spec.JPG

[Gary406]

thats a pretty good spec for browsing the web lozz

anyway .... im interested in buying that board cpu and ram off you ... my daughter is asking me for a pc for her bedroom so im just on the lookout for one for her now ....

[lozz]

Make us an offer mate,
idont know the spec of the board, all iknow its Amd, its just under 2yrs old so not outdated yet idont think,

the Motherboard disc says, M2N68-Am plus,
Also, onboard graphics, Nvidia, Geforce, 7025 630a

iwill dig out more info off the board later, gotta go dogs chewing the chair bastid things teething

[Gary406]

doesnt matter about board mate. its only to put in my daughters bedroom for her online games she has started to play . shes only 6 years old ..

[Gary406]

inbox us a price . and what it is alltogether. ie. is it just the board ram and cpu your selling . is it in a tower etc etc .. cheers mate

[highlander]

iwill have to get a load of blank dvds and copy everything

Nooooooooo, don't use DVDs. 4GB each, and they take ages to burn. No good for backing up a few hundred GB of data.

Get yourself a nice big external USB hard drive (something like a Western Digital MyBook), as much capacity as you can afford (1.5 to 2.0 TB is good). Connect it to the machine, and either use the supplied software, or download CrashPlan, which is a free network-based backup tool. Configure it to back up all the data on your PC, and off it'll trot, copying all the files to its hard drive.

CrashPlan is brilliant - install it on all the networked PCs in your house and tell it to copy it to the PC that has your external backup drive attached. Configure CrashPlan on that PC to backup these other PCs' data to the drive, and it will just sit in the background and ensure all your files are backed up (incremental backups too, so it'll only backup what's changed since the last backup ran). And it's free too, which is even better.

[lozz]

http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/AMD_AM ... 68AM_PLUS/