i need tech support IRL

[waggythegeek]

As @STRMfrmXMN will testify, I've got some weird shit going on with my computer. Anybody know a good computer repair company near Seattle?

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What's the prob son?

[d3sl91]

As @STRMfrmXMN will testify, I've got some weird shit going on with my computer. Anybody know a good computer repair company near Seattle?

 If you want to drive to Portland... I'd look at it. 

 

Not familliar with seattle's computer repair shop. 

[Speedyv]

 If you want to drive to Portland... I'd look at it. 

 

Not familliar with seattle's computer repair shop. 

 

Bruh you look like KYR Speedy lol

[TetraSky]

Best Buy.

They will just run their Geek Squad MRI software on it, find what's wrong, and "fix it" for you. (You could also find that software "somewhere", but be careful, if it's not "patched", it will "call home")

 

But really, what's wrong with the PC?

[waggythegeek]

What's the prob son?

To much to post. Basically, after sudden unexpected power loss, Windows broke due to an SSD in raw format. Fixed that, but Windows now refuses to install due to the device not supporting booting to the drive.

[waggythegeek]

Best Buy.

They will just run their Geek Squad MRI software on it, find what's wrong, and "fix it" for you. (You could also find that software "somewhere", but be careful, if it's not "patched", it will "call home")

But really, what's wrong with the PC?

See above. On mobile, can't multiquote.

[waggythegeek]

If you want to drive to Portland... I'd look at it.

Not familliar with seattle's computer repair shop.

Sorry, nope. You might be a rapist.

[Deagon]

To much to post. Basically, after sudden unexpected power loss, Windows broke due to an SSD in raw format. Fixed that, but Windows now refuses to install due to the device not supporting booting to the drive.

sounds like it surged and fried. sounds as though you need a new drive. or board

[Griffscavern]

As @STRMfrmXMN will testify, I've got some weird shit going on with my computer. Anybody know a good computer repair company near Seattle?

Google listings.

https://www.google.com/search?q=fry%27s+seattle&oq=fry%27s+sea&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0l3.14037j0j4&client=ms-android-att-aio-us&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#q=computer+technician+seattle

[d3sl91]

Bruh you look like KYR Speedy lol

Huh, I do suppose I do! (Not him, honest

[d3sl91]

Sorry, nope. You might be a rapist.

Haha, no problem

 

Though, likely your SSD is screwed. Key thing is removing and testing each item separately. If able to install on another drive, then you know your SSD is done for. If not, then your SATA controller/Motherboard. 

[Emanuel_M]

As @STRMfrmXMN will testify, I've got some weird shit going on with my computer. Anybody know a good computer repair company near Seattle?

does the ssd show in the bios? Reset CMOS, and reinstall.

[TetraSky]

RAW format? You could try formating it through command lines during Windows install (shift + F10 to open the command prompt) and diskpart.

 

you can also use Gparted, a partition editor that allows you to format/resize a HDD partition to various different file systems, including NTFS. I've used it in the past to get a RAW disk to "work".

 

(If you have more than 1 hard drive, I suggest you unplug them while doing any sort of partition editing, unless you want to risk making a mistake you will regret... like I did... and format the wrong drive... more than once...)

[Deagon]

Gparted

Nice

 

 

If you have more than 1 hard drive, I suggest you unplug them while doing any sort of partition editing, unless you want to risk making a mistake you will regret... like I did... and format the wrong drive... more than once...

Damn, I hope you give all your drives unique names now, or use that space to indicate whats in them. A good way to avoid this. If you want to get fancy, you can keep a list of drive names, and then list whats in them all and have it open for when you edit drives.

[waggythegeek]

sounds like it surged and fried. sounds as though you need a new drive. or board

I know it's not the drive, can the board still be fried and get me into BIOS fine? Can my sata controller get ruined seperate from my board if it's built in?

[waggythegeek]

Haha, no problem

Though, likely your SSD is screwed. Key thing is removing and testing each item separately. If able to install on another drive, then you know your SSD is done for. If not, then your SATA controller/Motherboard.

I know for 100% sure it's not my ssd.

[waggythegeek]

does the ssd show in the bios? Reset CMOS, and reinstall.

yep. Tried that.

[Emanuel_M]

yep. Tried that.

like what @TetraSky suggested boot into gparted I'll show you how, orrrrr...

With your windows install can you use the repair option to use CMD and format your SSD from their? <--- try this first

http://gparted.org/liveusb.php

[d3sl91]

I know it's not the drive, can the board still be fried and get me into BIOS fine? Can my sata controller get ruined seperate from my board if it's built in?

I know for 100% sure it's not my ssd.

 

Just my 2c from a repair shop perspective and some stuff maybe you can try yourself:

If pulling the drive and doing a format in another system doesn't fix it (Gparted, microsoft diskpart, whatever). The only way to test the above, is by using a known perfectly good drive (no, you SSD does not count because it was originally on the system) and see if that works. Unless something else jumps out at us, that would be one of the first things that we (we = computer techs) would do to narrow down the cause of problems. 

 

If another drive does not work, then we start to believe it's the motherboard. We may try a PCI sata controller to see if that is what's broken Because yes, PART of a board can certainly be broken. I have a board next to me that has a bad memory slot and a bad ethernet port because of a power outage. Everything else works fine..

 

We would also try the drive in a known working computer to do a test install, and run HDD tests to make sure your drive is also not bad, because it could be multiple items.

 

The thing with computer shops, they are not always going to know more than you. But they do fix this stuff for a living, and have more practical knowledge and experience. They also have lots of parts to test, and testbench computers. As you may have seen in Linus' most recent vessel video on the PFsense router, he didn't do weird software based tests and stuff to determine what was broken. He literally grabbed parts and tried them. That's what a repair shop can do, because they have known-good "baseline" items. 

 

TL:DR - If you go to a repair shop, do not go in acting like you know stuff and tell them what is and what isn't broken. Because they will not listen to you and will still assume everything is broken until proven otherwise - cause that's their job. 

 

Hope you get it figured out!