Dischuffed Beyond Belief
Oct. 12th, 2005 10:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fiat_knoxAnyone who knows me also knows that recently I've been waiting for the money to come in so I can get a replacement power unit for the old system, which went tits up towards the end of last month.
Well, I got a power unit last night, fitted it into the computer, easy peasy. But then I turned it on.
The power unit wasn't the only thing wrong with the computer. The motherboard's fried. It's taken until last night for me to discover this.
The computer is well and truly dead. I have to speak to someone I know, see if I can get either a new motherboard, memory etc. - in effect, rebuild the system from scratch - or whether I can slave the hard drive to another unit and do a disk capture onto a DVD - ROM, then transfer the relevant documentation onto the only surviving computer I have.
But I no longer have access to the internet from the folks' place, at least until they get broadband - which won't be until October 25th.
So until then, I'm stuck with public access online via my local library.
Yes, it sucks.
No, there's no quick way out of this, because I'm flat broke.
Anyway, there you have it.
2013 Edit: This was caused by my brother Sean, in the kitchen, turning on an old deep fat fryer which Mum had retired due to electrical problems. This fried the fuses across the house and blew the old computer's motherboard and power unit.
I have long since forgiven Sean this.
Well, I got a power unit last night, fitted it into the computer, easy peasy. But then I turned it on.
The power unit wasn't the only thing wrong with the computer. The motherboard's fried. It's taken until last night for me to discover this.
The computer is well and truly dead. I have to speak to someone I know, see if I can get either a new motherboard, memory etc. - in effect, rebuild the system from scratch - or whether I can slave the hard drive to another unit and do a disk capture onto a DVD - ROM, then transfer the relevant documentation onto the only surviving computer I have.
But I no longer have access to the internet from the folks' place, at least until they get broadband - which won't be until October 25th.
So until then, I'm stuck with public access online via my local library.
Yes, it sucks.
No, there's no quick way out of this, because I'm flat broke.
Anyway, there you have it.
2013 Edit: This was caused by my brother Sean, in the kitchen, turning on an old deep fat fryer which Mum had retired due to electrical problems. This fried the fuses across the house and blew the old computer's motherboard and power unit.
I have long since forgiven Sean this.
