You might want to just get all your data off and then reformat using an answer file if it's a standard windows instillation. i'd be happy to come fix it for you, but i'm not sure the cost would be worth it to you even if i were cheeper than the local staples.
Feel free to call or email me if there is anything I can do to help. Best, Erik Burggraaf Follow my series of articles about setting up a small business through the ontario disability support program at http://www.erik-burggraaf.com/blog Ebony Consulting toll-free: 1-888-255-5194 or on the web at http://www.erik-burggraaf.com On 2013-02-28, at 10:24 PM, May and Noah <mcdonald....@gmail.com> wrote: > Yes, sometimes being blind is a headache. > > It did finally decide to come on, but it looks like some windows things are > missing. Important ones that um let me go to restore change passwords, > updates and all that. > > I haven't touched that computer in a week and have no clue how or what broke. > At least now there is speech, but I have no clue how to fix it. > > Thanks for the ideas though. > > May and Prince Noah > www.canadianlynx.ca > m...@canadianlynx.ca > > On 2013-02-28, at 7:51 PM, Aman Singer <aman.sin...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi. >> If you're not sure what's going on, I have generally found it worth >> taking some sort of camera, whether on the iPhone or on Skype, and >> calling someone. Point the camera at the screen and have the person >> you call tell you what's on the monitor. They may not be able to see >> it easily, though I have almost always found that there is no issue in >> seeing the text, and it may be too much of a pain to walk through a >> fix while pointing a camera at the screen, but the point is just to >> see whether it's a quick fix which can be managed remotely or if >> there's something more serious wrong. This is one of those things that >> I really hate about being blind around most computers, there's >> sometimes no way to distinguish between the volume being muted and the >> hard drive no longer reading. That is, every event that causes trouble >> on boot is a major event, no matter if it's really quite easy to fix. >> Aman >> >> On 2/28/13, May and Noah <mcdonald....@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Ok, this may be a strange question, but I want to try everything before I >>> have to break down and take my stupid windows computer to a computer place >>> to have it looked at. >>> >>> Is there anyway at all to use my mac to find out what's up with my pc? The >>> stupid thing showed all kinds of errors all of a sudden and now speech has >>> flown the coop and I'm about ready to throw it out the window. >>> >>> May and Prince Noah >>> www.canadianlynx.ca >>> m...@canadianlynx.ca >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>> >>> >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
