Bad Tech Days
You know how we sometimes have bad hair days? Well, I believe there are days when we have bad tech days. Only, it has been bad tech week for me around here.
It started the first of the week when my big momma, the 8G memory machine went down - - Black screen would not turn on –the works. This lady is only five months old, so it should have be giving me problems. But, there it was, would not turn on. I popped the case and discovered that when you pushed the on button, the fan would give it whirl and then die. Then, one had to disconnect the power source and wait a few minutes before it would try again.
But, Dell came through for me and sent a tech type dude out. The poor man arrived after dark in the rain. Our dirt road is two miles of twisting, little bridges and mud when it rains and really is scary in the dark. There are no street lights out here in the country, the cows gotta have their beauty sleep you know. Anyway, he came and installed a new mother board and power module and everything was fine. It also was done in less than two days after I called them. And, of course I had my laptop to help out.
Then, later in the week, on Friday, the DSL went out. Would you believe they sent out a line man THAT very day and he came EARLY? I was impressed. He and hubby looked at the outside box, at the inside box and then it was decided we needed filters on every single phone jack in the house. We already had two, and he had another in the truck and voila! DSL connection again.
Of course, hubby on the laptop had a minor issue last night. He could not get the internet. I worked on the linksys, powering them down, resetting and the like and then, discovered he had inadvertently turned off the wireless on the laptop. It is very easy to do, and thus I generally check it first. But, not this time.
What a week.
Of course, we are also trying to get NDISB back up. Theresa has a home page and the store is slowing coming back together. More TECH WOES!
Don’t forget to drop by and pick up your daily download over at NDISB today. It was released around 10:00 this morning.
Oh, I hear you! I’ve been having similar. My Dell is making a weird revving, cycling sound SOMETIMES. How do you trouble shoot something when it does not always happen? And we did check out the fan … does not seem to be the fan. Then my mouse died.