Posted on 03/15/2011 11:53:45 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator
Hello all. Perhaps you've noticed I haven't been around much lately. Well, I wasn't in Japan when the quake hit, but my computer did crash early on the morning of 3/6 (over a week ago) and it's been in the shop since the next morning.
This is the second crash in three months. When he got around to looking at it the repair guy said he couldn't find anything wrong with the software so it must be the hard drive. The hard drive came in yesterday morning and is installed but it still won't work. Now there are only two possibilities left . . . a processor or else the motherboard.
If it's the motherboard of course my computer is dead. This means I will either have to get a new computer or else cancel my Internet subscription. And while I am perpetually low of funds, at present due to a string of recent expenses (most of them routine) I am even lower than usual, though I have had less. If I get a new computer I don't know how long it will be. So what I'm saying is that I am gone until further notice.
I've become reacquainted with my shortwave radio since this happened, but it still isn't the same (and I so want to visit the web sites of some of the stations). But what the hey. These things happens.
I've lived most of my life without a computer, but now life without one is very difficult. The Internet is my connectiont to the world.
I know I'm not the best behaved person on this forum, and I don't know if any of you will miss me, but I miss all of you terribly.
I am at my local library to contact some of my 'Net friends to tell them what happened. Tomorrow morning I should know for sure whether or not my old computer is done for.
Please don't forget me! Thank you Jim Robinson, and long live Free Republic!
I had a bad nose bleed once. I mean running so fast it was a stream not a drip. I was a couple of hours away (on foot) from the nearest doc and I remembered from my boxing days that we would occationally stop a bad cut with Qtip and bleach.
Well, I did not have a Qtip but I did have a Clorox wipe.
[I’ll let you figure out the rest of the story but it ends with ... yes the nose bleed stopped]
There are far greater pieces of shiite laptops out there besides Dell. I've owned 7 of them and have yet to have any of them crash or die.
I'm convinced that it doesn't much matter what brand of laptop one owns. If it isn't maintained properly and treated right, it is doomed. That is to say, the human factor is the greatest threat to a laptop.
Hurry back, ZC!
Bump that. A simple boot-up with a knoppix disk, if nothing else, would go a long way toward diagnostics.
"he said he couldn't find anything wrong with the software so it must be the hard drive."
The above is the lamest diagnosis I have ever heard.
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