Techsupport

The other night I was on my computer and a storm came in and knocked out the power. When I got up the next morning and tried to get online an error message popped up saying "Could not detect dial tone". I checked the phoneline and there was most definatly a dial tone. I tried a different phonecable,nothing, I tried reloading my ISP's software, still nothing.

So what do you think the problem could be? I'm figuring lightning must have blown out my computer's modem. So where could i go to get a new one, how much would one cost and how would I install the thing?

modem go boom.

I hear stores sell them for a couple of bucks. They go inside your computer.

lol dialup STFUGTFOKTHXBYE

Ok you people are no help what so ever.

Is it even possible to get a straight answer out of you 4chan idiots?

Course I'm one to talk, I barely know how to turn my computer on XD!

So i ask again

How much would a new modem cost?

And how do I install the thing?

Do i just take the caseing off the back of my old computer, yank out the old modem and slip the new one in,put the cover back on and its done, or is there other steps to do?

best to call a local pc store and ask the price. should be more than $20 for an internal modem.

installation is trickier. but basically what you said + install drivers.

good luck. pci modems can be a right pain in the arse sometimes.

^should be NO* more than...

Get a USB one.  Not much more than a PCI one, and you just plug it into your computer from the outside.  No need to take it apart or anything.  You'll save yourself a lot of trouble.

>>8
USB is for cameras and gamepads and printers. Using it for NICs/modems or HDDs is massive fail.

^Anonymous is my new favorite person

>>9
I'm sorry, but USB HDDs are the bomb.  Sometimes portability (and escapability lol) is better than speed.  GTFO.

>>11
Too bad USB is slow as hell.

>>12
SOMETIMES **PORTABILITY** (AND **ESCAPABILITY**) IS BETTER THAN **SPEED**.

READ THAT OVER AND OVER UNTIL YOU UNDERSTAND THAT.
SPEED ISN'T EVERYTHING
THEN STFUGTFO;KTHXBYE

Lol but my super mega optimized IDE hard disk runs with my hand compiled IDE driver for Gentoo

>>13
Too bad writing 1GB to USB takes five hours.

>>11
I thought so too. Then power spikes/dips over USB produced some drives with partitions that got fucked due to getting disconnected while writing to $MFT. eSATA/RJ45 4 LYFE. Because sometimes reliability is more important than everything else.

>>16
This is interesting you say that.  Please point me to more info on this.

I have two USB drives hooked up to my Debian box, and when I was doing large amounts of file transfer between the two drives, at some point it was like both drives got disconnected even though they were still physically connected, and it's like it knocked out the whole usb card.

More info please.

>>17
USB was, as I mentioned earlier, meant for printer and gamepads and stuff. Applications where predictable voltages for weeks on end are not needed.  For external drives, having eSATA or a NAS type device is ideal,  since they are made with the assumption of being used for these purposes. If it needs to be shared over a network, NAS (HDD attatched to a smart controller with onboard RAM and a file server with an Ethernet card) is the way to go. Otherwise, eSATA gets you portability without a performance hit vs. internal drives.

If you have a shitty USB controller then yeah, you'll have problems. Otherwise it's fine so STFU idiots.

Well, here's the thing.  Debian Linux box, inside are 3 pci slots, first and second have nics, third has a Belkin USB 2.0 card.

Have 2 HDs connected, one is a Segate 160gb external, other is a Dynex enclosure (Cypress chipset) with a WD 250gb inside.

I had both of them on and was copying much data via samba to the WD.  Got a bunch of error messages, checked logs, and earliest line in log was saying that the drives were disconnected.  Later errors were because the disk was disconnected during I/O.  lsusb showed no connection.  I had to reboot to reset it.

I ended up taking the drives over to my non-server box and did the transfer there, first using windows xp/ifs drivers and then did another transfer using Fedora Core 4, all this under the motherboard's usb 2.0 chipset.  No disconnects, transfers lasted about two hours.
 
WTF?

Apart from not being funny, even in the random sense that you were going for which was so obviously predictable, I also couldn't follow it. I didn't make sense at for pretty much most of the beginning and only started to near the end. However, this is the point where I really didn't give shit what you wrote because an idiot who can barely make coherent thoughts under absolutely no pressure nor time constraints at all must be fuckin retarded.

I hope for your sake that when you wrote this someone had a fuckin gun to your head because then that would be an excuse for writing that piece of shit garbage that you posted. But even then that would mean that someone would want you to write that. So much so that they actually put a gun to your head. And who would want you write meaningless garbage that isn't even remotely funny and a waste of time..... a conundrum! I'll start working on that; you go play with some blocks or something.  

>>21
Troll harder.

>>1 ask for rex

Why has no one noticed yet that this dude is posting...ON THE INTERNET?! 

Also, it's a requirement of all 4channers to not fail so hard.