…and for the first time in well over 10 years, I am going to have to mail the machine in. So I will be five days without my main computer. Argh!<\/p>\n
The good news is that I have a pretty good fallback—my old Latitude is still viable, and after being plugged in and roused from a two year long nap—found the house net, updated its security and is now launched on 25 Windows updates, with 6 optionals.<\/p>\n
You who work with Windows know what a joy that is.<\/p>\n
But I should be able to get access.<\/p>\n
We got the error on the main machine that it originally had. I love Dell computers. I am NOT so sure about their local repair folk—one of whom failed turn on the keyboard lighting (we found that out) and the other of whom left the RW drive cable unconnected—which it still is, making me very glad we have a housenet for moving files about.<\/p>\n
Well, so I have to mail my baby in, and expect a 5 day round trip, in which they will try to figure out why, despite replacing the mobo, the io, the palmrest and keyboard—which is about everything EXCEPT the case, the power supply, battery, and video display—it keeps having a skip across the usb ports of a ‘usb power surge’ warning, that vanishes if you reboot.<\/p>\n
The former computer nearly had me locked out—I forgot the password change, so the ‘password hint’ was out of date, but hey, I got it. And it’s a pretty respectable machine on its own. So I’m not in too much pain. Just frustrated, and wishing I didn’t have to doubt the local service guys. We exhausted the resources of all the highlevel techs, even in remoting the keyboard—they couldn’t find it either, and we’ve flashed the bios and updated everything from usb drivers to chipset driver-thingie.<\/p>\n
I’m moving my sensitive files over to dear old Ezzie, the former computer, and will carry on carrying on. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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