November 25, 2007
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My computer quit working. One day I was downloading a World
of Warcraft update and it locked up (I was also working in Photoshop,
so I thought because Photoshop is a memory hog, that was the
problem.) So I shut it down and went to restart it and though
everything had power nothing would work. I tried everything I
could think of – reseating everything – memory, video
card, CPU, drive cables, power cables, etc., removing anything that
wasn’t absolutely essential to running the computer (e.g. my printer,
external drives, etc.) Still refused to start up.
Methinks it needs a new MoBo. (That’s Mother Board for you non-tecchies
out there.) And with a new MoBo, that means I’ll have to get
a new processor (mine is about 4 years old and no longer compatible
with any current board), as well as a new video card, as mine is AGP
and they don’t make those anymore. Add the cost and I could
pretty much buy a new computer instead. HOWEVER, none of the
“off the shelf” computers are very expandable, so I’m just going to buy
a docking station, an external hard drive, and use my most
groovulicious laptop (pictured). Then I don’t have to transfer stuff
between my laptop and my desktop computers. I ordered a docking station and H/D from Best Buy. Hopefully it will be here soon. We’re going to take my hard drives and put them in Mac’s computer, move all the stuff off them onto my portable drive, then he will keep my old drives.Today I started paying my bills and realized I didn’t have Quicken on my new computer. And the last CD I have is Quicken Deluxe 2001 (I downloaded all subsequent purchases) so I had to go online and download Quicken 2008 – this time I’ll copy the d/l to CD. Fortunately, my data was backed up (I back it up every time I use the program) to an external ZIP disk so I didn’t have to start from scratch.
Comments (3)
Sounds like a heck of a fun time! NOT! This PC I’m using right now is standing on its last legs, and it ain’t doing well of standing! I had a dock and external hard drive where I used to work. It worked well with moving stuff around all over the place since I was traveling alot, too.
I think I’ll build one come the first of the year; bills aren’t treating me nice at the moment.
P.S. You’re addicted to that WoW! I knew it was addictive…. it’s got my son now… maybe we can get him back someday…
If you like that Nicholas Sparks book I think I have one or two books of his here that I could send you.
Here I thought you’d be telling us about a new computer!
Sometimes I convince myself that I am a satisfactory-mild expert on computers… then I read this blog. It was like charlie brown’s teacher.
Thanks for the perspective.
Glad you got something working for you
See what addictive interactive type video games do to a computer?!?! lol