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senoritafish) wrote2010-08-09 04:36 pm
senoritafish) wrote2010-08-09 04:36 pm
Dammit...
Technology and I are not getting along lately.
Last week I came back from lunch to hear a funny, cricket-sounding noise from somewhere on my desk. After some searching around, I discovered it was coming from my little portable 500 GB Seagate FreeAgent drive. I unplugged it and then plugged it back in, and nothing was now recognized on the drive. After our IT person checked with someone else, she told me I could either try to get a new unit as it's only about 6 months old and should still be under warantee, or taking it apart and trying to recover what's on there, with only a 30% chance of getting anything back. She also mentioned they need to be treated like gems - which I really had been trying to do.
I mentioned earlier that neither of the browsers were connecting on our home PC, and after thinking to check for viruses, I couldn't get the AVG Free menu to come up either (everything else connecting was fine). However, I think the newest version of Gareth's Orbiter game/spaceflight simulator was causing an incompatibility - when I uninstalled that everything started working again. I scanned everything with TrendMicro Housecall - which didn't find anything but an older version of another of his flight simulators, which I knew had an issue - and also installed Microsoft Security Essentials, which also didn't find anything. Everything seemed to working ok for about a week or so, and then yesterday, the system rebooted and I have a "\Config\System is missing or corrupt - use original CD to repair" - which I don't have. Grrr.
This morning I pulled out my new (to me) work cell, and it seems dead. I plugged it in to charge and I'm only getting the Verizon banner for a few seconds. Did it get damp when we went to beach Saturday? God, I hope not, it didn't seem like it it, but it doesn't seem to be charging either. I'll stick it in a bag of rice when I get home; but CRAP!
One thing after another. I like to think I've got a handle on the gadgety stuff, but Deities of tech, what did I do to offend?
Last week I came back from lunch to hear a funny, cricket-sounding noise from somewhere on my desk. After some searching around, I discovered it was coming from my little portable 500 GB Seagate FreeAgent drive. I unplugged it and then plugged it back in, and nothing was now recognized on the drive. After our IT person checked with someone else, she told me I could either try to get a new unit as it's only about 6 months old and should still be under warantee, or taking it apart and trying to recover what's on there, with only a 30% chance of getting anything back. She also mentioned they need to be treated like gems - which I really had been trying to do.
I mentioned earlier that neither of the browsers were connecting on our home PC, and after thinking to check for viruses, I couldn't get the AVG Free menu to come up either (everything else connecting was fine). However, I think the newest version of Gareth's Orbiter game/spaceflight simulator was causing an incompatibility - when I uninstalled that everything started working again. I scanned everything with TrendMicro Housecall - which didn't find anything but an older version of another of his flight simulators, which I knew had an issue - and also installed Microsoft Security Essentials, which also didn't find anything. Everything seemed to working ok for about a week or so, and then yesterday, the system rebooted and I have a "\Config\System is missing or corrupt - use original CD to repair" - which I don't have. Grrr.
This morning I pulled out my new (to me) work cell, and it seems dead. I plugged it in to charge and I'm only getting the Verizon banner for a few seconds. Did it get damp when we went to beach Saturday? God, I hope not, it didn't seem like it it, but it doesn't seem to be charging either. I'll stick it in a bag of rice when I get home; but CRAP!
One thing after another. I like to think I've got a handle on the gadgety stuff, but Deities of tech, what did I do to offend?
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I used to be better at fixing things myself - frustrates me when I can't. My cheap Scottish side does not want to have to spend money to get others to fix them.