[Albert Lionheart]

I have a laptop in the wksps of peculiar make as peddled by the box-shifters in UK which has suddenly started misbehaving. Devices have stopped working - almost all of them, one by one, and on looking in the device manager I see that although the drivers are all installed the message shown for the thing not working is that there are no available resources.
Checking the IRQs and allocated memory all looks normal - anyone any ideas?
Bear in mind that because of these problems I cannot get data or programmes in or out of the machine!
cheers

[Daveskater]

Sounds a bit like an IT guys worst nightmare mate. Try running a Windows Repair install if you can, and try the ol' sfc /scannow command (hoping I remembered it right ) If you need more info on it then let me know, I'll dig up a post for you.

[Albert Lionheart]

Thanks Dave - will do it in a moment and let you know - trouble is the CD drive does not work at all (shows up int he BIOS OK but nowhere else and won't boot from it). USB Ports don't work either and being a laptop that's yer lot I guess. I could try
The machine is a PC World (spit) clone of an emachine so in real terms it is not worth the time spent on it!

Update:
sfc .scannow didn't work as it called for files on the CD which it could not read.
It goes in the bin tonight unless one of you can save it!

[Daveskater]

Ahh I see mate, well we all know how much eMachines are good for

Only other thing I can think of is remove the hdd, put it in a desktop as a slave drive and format it through the other installation, then put the drive back in its home and install Windows again.

Other than that mate, the bin it is I'm afraid

[Albert Lionheart]

It is not an emachine - it is a medion under another badge. Still, a piece of rubbish in anyone's book. I did a little more digging and found out that this error is caused by a faulty GPU so I have taken it to my mate in Milton Keynes (he is a Milton Keenie) who does board level repairs and asked him to have a shufti at it. He confirmed the diagnosis and is going to threaten it with sticks.
Or else - as you say Dave - it is into the great wheelie bin with it. Not taking it to the tip as the scratters will resell it as it is.

[Daveskater]

Ahh well that's good mate, I wouldn't have thought of that hehe. Still an eMachines at heart though eh A bit like Panasonic and Technics - same stuff, different badge.

Let us know how the stick threatening goes

[Albert Lionheart]

Strangely enough, when I was trawling through the net looking for drivers for this machine I found a very old post by Howard on 'the other place' - still useful as it led me to where I found out is was a Medion 2020 machine with an EI badge on it. It shows the old master was out there many moons ago being helpful!

[Daveskater]

That's interesting mate, good find

Did it help you with the problem?

[Albert Lionheart]

In a way - it set me off on the trail of the medion 2020 laptop which I then found to be the rebadged thing in front of me - so I found the drivers - and Howard was helpful (as ever!)

[Daveskater]

Well that's good to hear mate.

I'm guessing it's all working now then?

[Albert Lionheart]

No - not yet. I have a mate in Milton Keynes (he is known as the Milton Keenie) who does board level repairs so I shoved it in his direction and asked him if he knew about these things - turns out he does and thinks it is caused by a bad GPU chip - we will see what he finds next week.

[Daveskater]

Ahh, ok. I was getting confused hehe. That's two things cleared up now