The computer arrived with a note saying that they had replaced the motherboard and all should be well.
And it was … for a day. I happily went about reinstalling, updating and transferring all my files, until the Disk Check crash hit me and hit me hard. I was back on the Live HP Chat this [...]
Posts Tagged ‘laptop’
2 Jul
Gave Me A Scare
25 Jun
Old Standby
Sent off the laptop in a cardboard box shipped to me by UPS from the HP repair place down south. The HP rep that I had the live chat with said it should be back within 7 to 9 business days with a brand new motherboard. Until then, it’s just me and the ol’ hp [...]
23 Jun
Taking the Dog to the Vet
The computer, I mean. I think it knows that a box from HP is coming to ship it away.
Granted, I have done a system restore, so if it’s actually a software issue instead of a hardware issue, I might have solved the problem. It’s loaded reliably each time since the restore, the sleep [...]
19 Jun
Alive? No, Life Support
Wouldn’t turn on at all this morning. After retrying a few times, Todd suggested popping out the battery, let it sit, pop it in, turn it back on. This time I got the HP load screen directing me into safe mode. Wouldn’t really let me do any hardware checks, so I reloaded [...]
17 Jun
It’s alive! It’s A-LIVE!
We ran scan disk and a memory test, and the computer self-repaired a bunch of things and then, with a whisper and a bell tone, came back to life.
I’ve fully committed myself to the computer. A second wedding. I’ve even bought a relationship book (Windows Vista The Missing Manual) to make sure [...]
11 Jun
Housework. *grumble*
Something I’ve never been good at, housework. I have a huge to-do list, items I’m knocking off one after the other in a slow-but-steady pace and none of them very fun. After the outside activities (grocery shopping, picking up items for the backup), I’m focusing on inside activities like the dishes, laundry, and [...]
9 Jun
Can You Say … Catastrophic?
I knew you could! Say it again, kids. Catastrophic Hard Drive Failure.
Bear with me. My laptop has decided to commit suicide. We found it surrounded by pills and booze, but we managed to get it into intensive care. We have it hooked up to life-support, and we’re waiting for it to tell us why … [...]
19 Feb
It is done!
I have cleaned up the old laptop, convinced Todd to pick up a new (and very roomy) USB memory stick, and installed LSB onto the zip drive.
What else yet remains?
I want to create a single ‘book’ for my ongoing short stories. There’s just not enough room in the Library menu for novels-in-progress and stories-in-progress and [...]
15 Feb
Trying To Shake Things Up
Since I seem to be stuck getting into gear in the morning before work, I’m trying to brainstorm on what I can do differently that would shock me out of my bad habits and let me start building new ones.
First up is getting off this laptop. Not that I want to be rid of it, [...]
