October 19, 2008

Reset!

Yesterday morning I came into the office, flipped on the surge protector, turned on the eMachine box, and nuthin'. The monitor said it was working but that I should check the signal cable. I started fiddling and determined that the router lights would come on when I turned on the surge strip but immediately go off once I turned on the power to the computer. This implied that there was a problem with the machine. I then remembered that for the past few days I'd been getting alarms at startup telling me I had a floppy disk drive error and should press F1 to continue. Since the eMachine has never had a floppy drive I didn't think much of it. It looks like I should have.

Anyway, after determining that the cables were all good and the connections were working, I decided the motherboard had died. 3 1/2 years old and the thing quit. Crap.

I just spent $379 with tax for a Compaq Presario SR5510F with 2Mb of memory and 500Gb of hard drive. Not what I had in mind for that money, but I can't do any business or much of anything else without a machine. Fortunately I've got most of my data on a Flash Drive and a separate CD with all my photos. The worst hassle so far is reconfiguring my e-mail settings, and naturally I've been unable to find the POP config at the HawaiianTel website. I did download Firefox so things look familiar. I'd been trying to use IE, which I haven't used in years, and I don't want to.

Foo. What a way to spend a Sunday.

Posted by Linkmeister at October 19, 2008 02:26 PM | TrackBack
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