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Apr. 14th, 2010 12:46 pmChair status: fixed. Yay. Comp status: fried hardware. So, new motherboard or new machine. Not so yay...
Apr. 14th, 2010
computer update
Apr. 14th, 2010 02:24 pmAdvantage of geeky roommates: they occasionally come equipped with spare laptops that one can abscond with temporarily, if one has abrupt fail of normal laptopness.
For amusement, this is what my laptop looks like if you boot it up in safe mode and try to view, say, my journal:
( pic )
It is a cell phone pic, and thus does not accurately represent the nearly psychedelic nature of the experience. But it does give you an idea.
I took it in to Ye Olde Computyrre Repaire Shoppe, who diagnosed it as the video card having gone kaplooey (my term, obviously, not theirs, but it /is/ such fun to say); and, with this model of laptop, the video card is an inseparable part of the motherboard, so the whole thing would need replacing ... to the tune of $300 plus at least several hours labor.
...for a kind of beat-up and not-really new laptop.
Right.
I am kind of thinking no.
So, upshot: I get to wheedle the parental units into a super early birthday present (since I have no hope of affording anything personally), and until then I have web and email access but not much more. (I am so not going to dl, or try to play, WoW or GW on this computer. Especially since I am fairly sure GW was the last straw for the video card, and it is impolite, as well as inconvenient, to fry a borrowed laptop.)
Besides, I have plenty of books, so I won't die of boredom, right?
*thunks head on desk*
(It probably says something when taking away mIRC and games takes with it a large chunk of my social life...)
For amusement, this is what my laptop looks like if you boot it up in safe mode and try to view, say, my journal:
( pic )
It is a cell phone pic, and thus does not accurately represent the nearly psychedelic nature of the experience. But it does give you an idea.
I took it in to Ye Olde Computyrre Repaire Shoppe, who diagnosed it as the video card having gone kaplooey (my term, obviously, not theirs, but it /is/ such fun to say); and, with this model of laptop, the video card is an inseparable part of the motherboard, so the whole thing would need replacing ... to the tune of $300 plus at least several hours labor.
...for a kind of beat-up and not-really new laptop.
Right.
I am kind of thinking no.
So, upshot: I get to wheedle the parental units into a super early birthday present (since I have no hope of affording anything personally), and until then I have web and email access but not much more. (I am so not going to dl, or try to play, WoW or GW on this computer. Especially since I am fairly sure GW was the last straw for the video card, and it is impolite, as well as inconvenient, to fry a borrowed laptop.)
Besides, I have plenty of books, so I won't die of boredom, right?
*thunks head on desk*
(It probably says something when taking away mIRC and games takes with it a large chunk of my social life...)