May be offline for a couple of days

Taking Big Blue into the shop. Less than a month old, and there's two issues I want them to look at: a) why we get a primary slave hard drive error half the time when we start up and b) what is wrong with the graphics? I thought at first it was just a dvd playback problem, then we realised that other video files aren't great, and oh, look at the jerkiness of the screensaver, and hey, when you're playing solitaire and drag the cards, they're a bit jerky too.

Grrrr. Not Impressed.

Oh well, might actually get some stuff done

(Though really I'm hoping they'll fix it while I wait *g*)

Not happy Jan

They looked at the computer while I waited, and claimed to have fixed the startup problem, and said they couldn't see a display problem, and that I should change the refresh rate to fix it. I have done so, and the problem remains unchanged. Plus, after a powersurge, the startup problem reappeared.

Fuckers (and considering I normally regard this place quite highly, I'm really pissed off).

Success!

Big Blue has been fixed!

Poor hnix has already heard all this, since I knew she might be home and rang her about 4 times with frustrated updates on the situation. Plus, I'm stalking her. Though not in a creepy jilted popidol way. Anyhoo...

So after getting home, and setting the computer back up (too many fucking cables! I shall dream of cables!), I discovered that poor 'puter wasn't working. I wondered what could be different at home, so I spent a while on the phone with their technician, then took computer and monitor back to them. And this place isn't just down the road. It's about a 35 minute drive. They spent a while fiddling, while I baked in the non-airconditioned, western facing, opendoored reception area. Then they demonstrated to me that it was working fine (and that the problem they think they might have found, would have also been related to the startup problem).

So I happily drove home (there was a really interesting guy on ABC radio, talking about the bible, and homosexuality, and bunch of other stuff. Like, why do gays bug the church so much, when there's a few things in the bible against it (and less when you look at a lot of them in context), when they don't protest the entire banking system, which is based on usury, a major major sin?) and set up the computer again (ok, so dad did a fair bit of the actual hooking and unhooking, but I helped), so more cables.

And it wasn't working again! Waaaaaaah!

So we knew there was a problem *here*, so we started unhooking peripherals. Speakers,no. Scanner (which we still haven't got properly installed), no. Zip drive, bing bing bing! The way the computer died when we uninstalled it was kind of a sign, and then once it was up again...perfectly fine video and graphics. No more jerkiness. Bliss!

But what they did was also probably useful. I'm gonna keep telling myself that so that the 4 hours I spent driving and over there weren't a *complete waste*.

Wow, 148 journal entries, and I can still screw up lj tags