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dramaturgy) wrote2009-10-05 07:07 pm
dramaturgy) wrote2009-10-05 07:07 pm
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Grr this is not my week for technology.
1. Saturday my computer would not boot, and also the monitor flickered out a couple of times. Eventually I was able to reinstall Vista. Monitor did not give me any more trouble that night.
2. Sunday my monitor problem persisted and the longest it's stayed on is about an hour, although I've been trying to turn it on today to get some things off it and so far, no dice. I get thirty seconds at most.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
thinkatory thinks it might be the video card or the backlight (my money's on the backlight as the flickering is usually accompanied by a sizzling sound which I take to be a wire or some such somewhere).
3. I called Dell this afternoon and they were like, yeah, we can send you materials to send it to us and then charge you an arm and a leg for the privilege. I politely declined, so I have the names and locations of a place I am going to take it in the city when I'm there on Wednesday.
4. So in the meantime I'm on my mini machine (if I didn't tell you about my mini machine, it's because I have been effing busy. I haven't even named it yet) and I apparently have a piece of adware that not only opens random IE pop up windows when I'm in Firefox, but it redirects google search results to random, irrelevant websites and parked domains.
*facepalm*
1. Saturday my computer would not boot, and also the monitor flickered out a couple of times. Eventually I was able to reinstall Vista. Monitor did not give me any more trouble that night.
2. Sunday my monitor problem persisted and the longest it's stayed on is about an hour, although I've been trying to turn it on today to get some things off it and so far, no dice. I get thirty seconds at most.
thinkatory thinks it might be the video card or the backlight (my money's on the backlight as the flickering is usually accompanied by a sizzling sound which I take to be a wire or some such somewhere). 3. I called Dell this afternoon and they were like, yeah, we can send you materials to send it to us and then charge you an arm and a leg for the privilege. I politely declined, so I have the names and locations of a place I am going to take it in the city when I'm there on Wednesday.
4. So in the meantime I'm on my mini machine (if I didn't tell you about my mini machine, it's because I have been effing busy. I haven't even named it yet) and I apparently have a piece of adware that not only opens random IE pop up windows when I'm in Firefox, but it redirects google search results to random, irrelevant websites and parked domains.
*facepalm*