Totenkopf60
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If you only knew me. You wouldn't be flattered. J/K
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A poor attempt at self-deprecating humor. Suffice it to say, that I am not nearly as impressive as you are. 
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A poor attempt at self-deprecating humor. Suffice it to say, that I am not nearly as impressive as you are.
Ah.
I don't think direct comparison is the way to go here. 
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Of course you are right. Silly me. Totally different equipment.
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I am so glad of that too. Did I mention you are hot, gorgeous etc etc ?
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Lovely.
I'm afraid there haven't been many pictures lately, and I have some bad news, to... which is that my computer is sick.
It's pretty bad.
Hopefully I'll get this bit figured out soon, so that I can finally do pics again some time soon. I do really miss it.
I have good healing skills with computers. Mostly I just have to stand looking at them and the problems go away. But you are far away . . .
Incidentally I spent most of yesterday reading your stories, I was gripped!
A compliment from MC. Even rarer I think.
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It's been really exhausting trying to deal with it. I hate having to compromise when it comes to computers, and I hate not being able to do what I want to do with them. I hate having all my savegames erased, too.
Aw, thank you.
Writing always has been and will be the main reason why I'm on Lit, so I'm very happy to hear that. I'm not about to look a gift horse in the mouth.
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Yes. My computer is a pile of crap.
Really, it's some hardware problem that prevents it from turning on during the first thirty or so times I press the power button. On top of that, it's old and It's got various little things like not liking any new hardware I want for it. My dad fought with it for two days to get it to accept the wireless network. You'd think that wouldn't be so hard, but... yeah.
And now all my programs and such are gone anyway because my dad wiped everything (with me clenching my teeth and agreeing to it while wanting to cry) ad I refuse to install everything all over again and generally put any more effort into this thing because I know I'll just end up heartbroken again because there's going to be another problem. So I'm just doing the bare minimum like installing Firefox and Word so I can do NaNo.
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Yes. My computer is a pile of crap.
Really, it's some hardware problem that prevents it from turning on during the first thirty or so times I press the power button. On top of that, it's old and It's got various little things like not liking any new hardware I want for it. My dad fought with it for two days to get it to accept the wireless network. You'd think that wouldn't be so hard, but... yeah.
And now all my programs and such are gone anyway because my dad wiped everything (with me clenching my teeth and agreeing to it while wanting to cry) ad I refuse to install everything all over again and generally put any more effort into this thing because I know I'll just end up heartbroken again because there's going to be another problem. So I'm just doing the bare minimum like installing Firefox and Word so I can do NaNo.
Bit late now I guess if the disk has been wiped. The power up thing could either be the switch itself, the motherboard or the power supply. I had an old Dell I could only start by shorting the switch wires with a screwdriver . . .
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There were a couple more problems that re-installing Windows did take care of - at least I do have an internet connection that works now.
I'm sure it isn't the switch. The computer does start up, but them it sort of fizzles out and the screen stays blank, and it never gets anywhere.
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If you can get someone to swap out the power supply with a known good one that would eliminate that. You've eliminated the monitor presumably?
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It is.
I wrote almost 5,000 words yesterday, my best so far for November. I was very proud of myself for that number. Took some effort. My dad's good with computers and I know if there was an easy fix he probably would have found it - he builds computers from parts and such all the time. But my computer is old, that may be why it's got so many issues. That, plus we recently moved house, so the transport might have rattled it a bit more than intended. I'm resigned to not having a decent computer for a while. It's okay.
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It could be any number of things:
Power supply about to go, dirty\dusty motherboard shorting out, heat paste on the cpu\sink needs to be reapplied, bad RAM, some resistor\cap on the motherboard ready to pop...too difficult to tell unless someone who knows what they are doing takes a look at it.
If it's old dont bother putting any money into it. Save up for a cheap dell or similar since from what it sounds like you dont do much besides surf and word.
Best of luck
Edit: if he is somewhat skilled have him take a look at that stuff I just wrote, may give him some idea of where to start at least.
Power supply about to go, dirty\dusty motherboard shorting out, heat paste on the cpu\sink needs to be reapplied, bad RAM, some resistor\cap on the motherboard ready to pop...too difficult to tell unless someone who knows what they are doing takes a look at it.
If it's old dont bother putting any money into it. Save up for a cheap dell or similar since from what it sounds like you dont do much besides surf and word.
Best of luck
Edit: if he is somewhat skilled have him take a look at that stuff I just wrote, may give him some idea of where to start at least.
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Okay, this will not be a computer diagnostics thread. Please. 
It's not going to do any good and is only going to make my mood worse.
It isn't anything really simple. We've eliminated all the simple stuff. My dad does think it's probably the motherboard, but that doesn't help me right now either, unfortunately.
It's not going to do any good and is only going to make my mood worse. It isn't anything really simple. We've eliminated all the simple stuff. My dad does think it's probably the motherboard, but that doesn't help me right now either, unfortunately.
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Okay, this will not be a computer diagnostics thread. Please.
It isn't anything really simple. We've eliminated all the simple stuff. My dad does think it's probably the motherboard, but that doesn't help me right now either, unfortunately.
*zip*
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Thank you both very much. I don't meant to be a bitch about it, I hope it didn't come across that way.
Weather's nice, actually. Yesterday was rainy, but today the sun is shining again. I may have to take a walk later, if I can find the time at all.
Weather's nice, actually. Yesterday was rainy, but today the sun is shining again. I may have to take a walk later, if I can find the time at all.
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beautiful...
jen... gorgeous pics, thankyou x
jen... gorgeous pics, thankyou x
