Archive for the ‘Tech’ Category

6:15 PM EST: Arrived home to find a box on my front porch. Assumed it wasn’t dangerous and held the door open with one foot and grabbed the box with my right hand while holding keys, Ipod, and my cell in the other.

6:17 PM EST: Air conditioning turned on, kicked off shoes. Proceeded to open the box which contained a new power supply for my dead computer along with a brain upgrade.

6:19 PM EST: Prepped the operating table by putting two mouse pads down and then placed the patient on said mouse pads in a way to reveal the supposed infected power supply. No need to remove the outer side shell as I never can get it to stay on, so I leave it off.

6:21 PM EST: Removed the new power supply from the box that was inside the box that was on my porch. It looks very similar to the infected one…only difference being that all the wires of the new one are all in separate bags! I must build the maze of wires! But first….I will individually label every wire on the existing power supply explaining where I disconnected it from.

6:49 PM EST: Patients main power supply has been removed – while removing all its workings, I noticed more and more how dissimilar it is the the new heart of the system. Lets hope the “Customizable” power supply has the proper wire configurations in the sealed bags which I have not looked at yet. So much for read instructions first…but, there were none…were there?
I have no one to wipe my brow 🙁

7:20 PM EST: Turn on test fails – but at least it beeped. When I tried to trouble shoot it before – I bypassed the power button in case that was broken. Im going to fix that again….TAPE!

7:30 PM EST: Ok – now all fans turn on – But I get a long single beep over and over – nothing shows up on the monitor. Looking up BEEPS on the web to see which beep I have!

8:29 PM EST: Wiggled, took stuff out, put it back in, switched wires….fans run, memory is all lit up…no monitor though…just the long single beep which my user guide says there is a table below about Bios beeps on page 40, but there is no table about beeps in the book at all.

FAILURE

Guess it goes to a stranger now, to make it unsick.

8:10 PM EST the next day: I came home and switched the places of my memory….nothing…then put them back and shoved them in hard! TADA! it runs! Still don’t know if it is 100% unsick – but it is 98% unsick! WOOT!

Im sitting at my computer reading something not on the computer….and my screens go black to power down. I wiggle my mouse to get it to come back and nothing…ENTER….nothing….bang on the keyboard, CTRLALTDEL….nothing. So I restart. Screens have all the booting info on, then I look up and the screens are black again. So I thought, Ill just restart everything….hit the powerbar switch on, then off. Monitors come on, but the PC wont. I wiggled everything inside….banged, cleaned out the dust. There is a light that comes on the motherboard when I have the powersupply turned on. Nothing works. I cut the wires to the power button and hot wired them incase it was the switch…nothing!!!!@!!!!111

Took it out from under my desk…broke one of the plastic feet off the bottom while tilting it. (this thing weighs ALOT) I slid my old dusty dell over in its place and I am using that.  I retired it back in Jan 2005 – but it has been used off and on if I needed to duel box games or SL.

Got my email working. Got SL installed. Figured out a few web sites and passwords, like twitter and WordPress (Had to reset some passwords) This will do for now I suppose…but I never had to take my computer to get fixed…I always figured out what was wrong. It could be the powersupply, but this monster has soooo many wires coming out of it – I can hardly make it poke out of the box. No fuse I could see on it either. Just what I want – some stranger being able to poke around on my computer…I dont keep stuff locked up on there…all passwrods are remembered for everything I do – except banking and bills.

*Sigh*