(ot) laptop failure

JimP · March 2016

My laptop has failed. Using cell phone to post. Be back next week. Unable to reach email.

Dogtag · March 2016

Ugh! We'll be here. ;-)

JimP · March 2016

Using a borrowed computer... I tried updating my Bios, didn't work. Trying to reverse that Restore points not doing it. I've contacted some online help.

Tonnichiwa · March 2016

I hope you get it working again soon. The side of mine broke open the other day and it still works but I'm afraid of it shocking me.

seycyrus · March 2016

How is it broken? What are you seeing when you boot up?

JimP · March 2016

error message: 'Automatic repair cannot fix the problem. Restarting' And then I get a menu with a number of possibilities. I've tried a Windows refresh, but not a laptop refresh as I am uncertain if I've copied all files I need to copy off. Like emails and various numbers for software I have no way to recover them other than from the laptop.

edit: We should whisper fix ideas so as to not clog up the Profantasy mapping forums.

JimP · March 2016

WIndows 8.1 is the operating system. Mine is one of those with a hidden area of the hard drive being where the recovery disk is located. No install disk. I cannot select system repair, I can only let 'Automatic Repair' run, which does nothing.

I did a web search, and found lots of Asus laptop owners are being hit by this. Its their eSupport BIOS upgrade that is failing. There are a number of posts on the Asus forums, and no help there.

JimP · March 2016

I decided that since I have almost always forgotten files on an old computer when it failed, I bought a 'mini-desktop' which, except for the case size, is apparently a laptop. It has a laptop style power adapter.

I'll put the laptop hd in an external case, make sure I have everything copied over, and then use it for storage.

Ah well, I'm back and this can sink.

JimP · March 2016

Well, Win 10 wants to install into C:\Program Files (x86) and wouldn't let me change it. I was tired and qwent ahead and let it after 2 attempts at editing the browse part of the install.

So I removed the CC3 and Update 11install from Program Files. Went into File Explorer and created C:\Profantasy\CC3\ folders. Reinstalled.

I installed in the folders I wanted it to be in. FastCad cannot find Menu. So I checked the registry and found only one entry for CC3 being in Program Files. I deleted it, and rebooted. Still no Menu found. I can see the files in the C:\Profantasy\CC3\ folder.

I'm currently doing a repair of CC3 and see if that works. I'll let you know.

JimP · March 2016

And the repair worked. Hurrah ! Now to copy al the other gigabytes worth of non-mapping files I had on there... ( a small quiet argh...)

LadieStorm · March 2016

I have had to deal with that, so I feel your pain...

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