Edited by David Smith, Thursday, 31 Mar 2011, 14:51
Fortunately, I renewed the warranty on my PC in February.
Unfortunately, it looks like the hard drive, if not fubar is 'fu' heading in the general direction of 'bar'.
Fortunately my warranty includes hard drives
Unfortunately, hard drives aren't covered for 'in house' repairs, so the base unit will have to go back to the depot.
Just what I need right in the middle of TMA 06 and two thirds of the way through an OU course...
I've made them send an engineer out anyway, just on the off-chance it's memory problems (what?) which they do fix on site, but chances are I'm going to be typing at least TMA06 on my laptop and will be having to back up everything off my PC and go through all the Pavlova (yes, I know it's palaver - I'm doing a Hilda Baker for fun. Tsk. I arsk ya) of reinstalling EVERYTHING to a new HD etc, which will mean all sorts of aggro with Microsoft, Adobe and various other manufacturers convincing them that I'm not using illegal software but trying to re-register legitimate software, reconfiguring internet settings with a company that has changed hands and mail settings more times since I originally signed up for the account than Katie Price has changed bra sizes and DAYS of putting back on everything I've taken off to stop the people at the repair centre nicking all my registration details and getting my software from Microsoft, Adobe and everyone else on the 'suspect' list in the first place...
And all the bundled junk (free trials, unwanted programmes, adverts etc) that clutters the desktop when they do a 'factory install'.
So instead of, as planned, reading the rest of Girls On Top and writing TMA06 over the next 2 days (day and a half now). I will be cleaning the pigsty of a bedroom wherein lies my 'writers hovelcorner'in readiness for a visiting tech guy on Sunday, backing up everything on my PC, carefully copy and pasting all my license keys etc etc...
Oh well onwards and...
No duck news today... I did wander past the pond but they were away on an excursion while the builders were in refurbishing the little jetty thingies the anglers camp out on. Definition of a camp angler? One with sequins on his waders and a manbag for a baitbox. Definition of anglers 'camping out'? One hand on their tackle and the other on their hips...
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!
Fortunately, I renewed the warranty on my PC in February.
Unfortunately, it looks like the hard drive, if not fubar is 'fu' heading in the general direction of 'bar'.
Fortunately my warranty includes hard drives
Unfortunately, hard drives aren't covered for 'in house' repairs, so the base unit will have to go back to the depot.
Just what I need right in the middle of TMA 06 and two thirds of the way through an OU course...
I've made them send an engineer out anyway, just on the off-chance it's memory problems (what?) which they do fix on site, but chances are I'm going to be typing at least TMA06 on my laptop and will be having to back up everything off my PC and go through all the Pavlova (yes, I know it's palaver - I'm doing a Hilda Baker for fun. Tsk. I arsk ya) of reinstalling EVERYTHING to a new HD etc, which will mean all sorts of aggro with Microsoft, Adobe and various other manufacturers convincing them that I'm not using illegal software but trying to re-register legitimate software, reconfiguring internet settings with a company that has changed hands and mail settings more times since I originally signed up for the account than Katie Price has changed bra sizes and DAYS of putting back on everything I've taken off to stop the people at the repair centre nicking all my registration details and getting my software from Microsoft, Adobe and everyone else on the 'suspect' list in the first place...
And all the bundled junk (free trials, unwanted programmes, adverts etc) that clutters the desktop when they do a 'factory install'.
So instead of, as planned, reading the rest of Girls On Top and writing TMA06 over the next 2 days (day and a half now). I will be cleaning the pigsty of a bedroom wherein lies my 'writers hovelcorner'in readiness for a visiting tech guy on Sunday, backing up everything on my PC, carefully copy and pasting all my license keys etc etc...
Oh well onwards and...
No duck news today... I did wander past the pond but they were away on an excursion while the builders were in refurbishing the little jetty thingies the anglers camp out on. Definition of a camp angler? One with sequins on his waders and a manbag for a baitbox. Definition of anglers 'camping out'? One hand on their tackle and the other on their hips...