Adventures in personal computing
Aug. 24th, 2007 10:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
louiseluxI think I killed my desktop pc this afternoon.
It's elderly, or actually in personal computer terms more like an antique. I bought it in 1999 and we've had our up and downs together. It spent the whole of 2003 randomly beeping. Anyhow, it pulled through but had got the point recently where it was freezing every few minutes, so this afternoon I did a clean reinstall of Windows98, going back to the factory settings. It worked great for about half an hour but now it freezes when I try and use windows explorer. This is a pretty serious state of affairs because it means I can't actually make it do anything. At all.
Hmmm. Bugger.
Obviously there is the laptop to use, but I like the whole notion of having a desk, filling it with crap and then and sitting at my desk doing desk-based things.
It's elderly, or actually in personal computer terms more like an antique. I bought it in 1999 and we've had our up and downs together. It spent the whole of 2003 randomly beeping. Anyhow, it pulled through but had got the point recently where it was freezing every few minutes, so this afternoon I did a clean reinstall of Windows98, going back to the factory settings. It worked great for about half an hour but now it freezes when I try and use windows explorer. This is a pretty serious state of affairs because it means I can't actually make it do anything. At all.
Hmmm. Bugger.
Obviously there is the laptop to use, but I like the whole notion of having a desk, filling it with crap and then and sitting at my desk doing desk-based things.
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Date: 2007-08-25 04:47 am (UTC)Re: the beeping...well ours was constantly doing that about two weeks ago. The hubby, he did some surgery. It seems the fan was bust, so he took that out and replaced that and then he got one of those minivacs., and cleaned up a little inside. So far so good.
Hope you resolve your pc woes. *hugs*
Now I go and resolve my own head woes! I don't think it works anymore...shame I can't replace it with new chips, grey matter or rewiring! At the moment it feels like its full of wool. >.<