Well, I came home the other day, turned my computer on and 'beep...beep...beep...beep'. Nothing. I could hear the fans running but nothing else. Nothing on the monitor to tell me what was happening or anything. I called Dell and was on the phone with a tech for about an hour or hour and a half...unplugging, replugging, turning on and off, moving memory to other slots, removing and and reconnecting the video card...anything to try to get a signal back. It turned out that the tech said he thought it was my motherboard, so instead of paying the money to get it replaced and dealing with the frustration of pulling the one in here now and putting a new one in, I toyed with the idea of getting a new computer. Talking about it at work the next day, my boss asked me if I'd ever considered a laptop. Of course, I hadn't, but the more I thought about it, the more fun the idea became so I decided to go for it. It is on order and is supposed to be shipped at the end of next week. As it turns out, it will be like a 'happy birthday to me' present and I'll have it just in time to play around with when I have that weekend off. (We get one Saturday off per month during tax season and when my birthday falls on a weekend, I am thrilled...otherwise they are 9.5 hour work days! YUCK!) I love having new 'toys' like this to learn about and play with!
Anyway, I was having dinner with Gina, Jon and Chris tonight and Jon, being the computer whiz that he is, said that he would be surprised if the problem was the motherboard since it acted like it did when I was trying to turn it on and what I described to him. Needless to say, the way I LOVE to figure things like this out, I brought my big ol' self home and decided I was going to open it up and mess around with it again...so once again I plugged and unplugged memory, the power supply, the hard drive, the CD drives, etc., everything I could see to move or check the plugs on, and guess what...my computer is back! For the time being anyway. Go figure. So now I've already spent the money to have a laptop on the way and I have my desktop back to boot. Sounds like the best of both worlds to me! I can't wait!
Anyway, I was having dinner with Gina, Jon and Chris tonight and Jon, being the computer whiz that he is, said that he would be surprised if the problem was the motherboard since it acted like it did when I was trying to turn it on and what I described to him. Needless to say, the way I LOVE to figure things like this out, I brought my big ol' self home and decided I was going to open it up and mess around with it again...so once again I plugged and unplugged memory, the power supply, the hard drive, the CD drives, etc., everything I could see to move or check the plugs on, and guess what...my computer is back! For the time being anyway. Go figure. So now I've already spent the money to have a laptop on the way and I have my desktop back to boot. Sounds like the best of both worlds to me! I can't wait!
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