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Yeah, I've done it again.
Last Friday I fired up my laptop to check my email before heading out, and the mousepad wouldn't work. Everything else worked, just not the mouse, even though it had been fine hours before. After the initial surge of panic, I handed lappy off to Lil' Sis, who's far more knowledgeable about these things.
So I come back on Monday, and the laptop's in the shop. Fantastic. (Also, the new DTV upgrade was not, in fact, properly installed or upgraded, so I also had no TV. All in all, a great technology day for me)
It turns out to be a hardware problem, the computer guy replaces a chip, all is well and good. I get it back today, mouse is working, all seems fine...until I try to send an IM. That's when I realized that some keys on the keyboard wasn't weren't working (the u,i,o,p,j,k,l,;, and m keys, specifically). Considering that I was planning on writing tonight, this was a bit of a problem (although being denied the ; key might improve my fic, if we're all being honest:). So I called the computer guy, and he walked me through putting the laptop in safe mode and checking things there, and all the keys worked. He suspected that I picked a up virus that hates my fic and that I was looking at a system reformat.
Crap. I shut things down, then turned it back on to see what I wanted to back up (my documents and pics were already backed up, but I have a good number of vids I'd be sad to lose) and...well, you know the sound an engine makes when it's trying to turn over? Or what the Tardis sounds like when it's starting up? That's the sound it was making. Then all the lights shut off and everything stopped.
I called the shop back in a panic and now I have to bring back in tomorrow. This is so upsetting. The machine is three years old, but I've never had a problem with it. It's like I'm getting three years of problems in one week.
I miss my shiny box of doom.:( Someone, write me some cheer-up fic. Peter/Claude is always good.
Last Friday I fired up my laptop to check my email before heading out, and the mousepad wouldn't work. Everything else worked, just not the mouse, even though it had been fine hours before. After the initial surge of panic, I handed lappy off to Lil' Sis, who's far more knowledgeable about these things.
So I come back on Monday, and the laptop's in the shop. Fantastic. (Also, the new DTV upgrade was not, in fact, properly installed or upgraded, so I also had no TV. All in all, a great technology day for me)
It turns out to be a hardware problem, the computer guy replaces a chip, all is well and good. I get it back today, mouse is working, all seems fine...until I try to send an IM. That's when I realized that some keys on the keyboard wasn't weren't working (the u,i,o,p,j,k,l,;, and m keys, specifically). Considering that I was planning on writing tonight, this was a bit of a problem (although being denied the ; key might improve my fic, if we're all being honest:). So I called the computer guy, and he walked me through putting the laptop in safe mode and checking things there, and all the keys worked. He suspected that I picked a up virus that hates my fic and that I was looking at a system reformat.
Crap. I shut things down, then turned it back on to see what I wanted to back up (my documents and pics were already backed up, but I have a good number of vids I'd be sad to lose) and...well, you know the sound an engine makes when it's trying to turn over? Or what the Tardis sounds like when it's starting up? That's the sound it was making. Then all the lights shut off and everything stopped.
I called the shop back in a panic and now I have to bring back in tomorrow. This is so upsetting. The machine is three years old, but I've never had a problem with it. It's like I'm getting three years of problems in one week.
I miss my shiny box of doom.:( Someone, write me some cheer-up fic. Peter/Claude is always good.
