My computer has an obession with long car rides...

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My computer has an obession with long car rides...

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Yeah, go figure my computer would decide not to work this morning after being all peachy and fine last night...grr...Soooo, I took it to BestBuy and had them take a look. Apparently, the mother board had a power surge overload and the mother board is shot. (and apparently the graphics card is affect by this somehow...not sure how, not a computer tech person...). So, I'm taking it to get fixed on Tuesday. What does this have to do with long car rides? The place I take it to is in a town some 45 minutes away. Heh...dumb thing.

Hey, as long as they can save my pictures, websites, anime stuff, and music, I'd be a happy camper! Of course, my dumb harddrive has to be one of these RAID setup things where it's two harddrives set up to be one....grrr...how I hate that! (hence why Yakima has added 'external harddrive' to her Xmas/B-day list! :P)

*sighs* So, I am out for a while. Might be longer if I lose my stuff. I have some stuff saved from months back but that would do me no good now as I've changed just about everything. Heh.






Oh, did I mention my camera died on me at the same time? Wouldn't focus anymore. I bought a new one. Still love my old one and will miss it (mostly because I could hand it to my mom and she could get the basic idea on how to use it...this one is a touch screen. I can't see her figuring it out anytime soon....:P), but I'm hoping this one will make me happy...we'll see...8 Megapixels vs. 6....5 optical zoom vs 4 and weird features like face detection...*blinks* oookaaayyy...might be too high tech for me. Heh...

Okay, done now. I'll see you all when I get back (*crosses fingers I don't loose anything...had that happen and it sucked majorly....*)
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Eeep! Good luck Yakima!

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Maaan, you've been having a tough time with computers! XD Good luck with getting everything fixed! We'll miss you!
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Yeah! Computer is coming home tomarrow! :P Good news is that it wasn't the mother board. The power supply had gone stupid. Heh...makes me feel better. :P So, I'll have my computer back finally. Funny, the whole family is happy about it, too. Maybe because my computer has pictures on it that they want. :P Heh...

So, expect updates soonish...like All-Earth updates! :P *peers at drawing pad* Must...draw...dragons...I want to get my images for Lantir-setia and Treval done...I hate wings! :P
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Hurrah! :D

Hey, one thing you might try if you've got a lot of things plugged in to one location. Try moving some plugs to other outlets, instead of using extentions, and multiple cables. I was having a beast of a time making my monitor work with my computer, and what finally worked was to put it on another plug entirely away from the rest of my goodies. It might save another power supply for you, if you try it out :)
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Ah, I can't do that, with the way my room is set up. I have only one outlet near my computer and I have the surge protector and my radio plugged into it. :P But, I'm back! *pats computer*
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