My Computer: Part IV
I have no updates on my desktop to speak of. Last Monday (August 11) I was told that the power supply was the source of all my problems. A replacement was supposed to have been ordered but that’s all I know. Oh, regarding the missing fan mount. Apparently the case for my computer was basically destroyed in shipping. Michael told me this soon after it arrived. What he didn’t tell me was that my CD-ROM drive was also destroyed and that there was no insurance on it. HMMM. He told me this after he made a deal with the guy who is fixing it to trade my mount-less fan for a new case and a DVD-RW drive. That was about 3 1/2 weeks ago.
Last week I decided that if I am going to be using my laptop for a much longer period that I had originally thought that I should upgrade the memory in it. I wanted to upgrade the memory a long time ago but I always convinced myself not to. It originally came with only 512MB. On Monday I finally ordered 2 sticks of 512MB ram. My laptop model will only support up to 1GB so this was fine. Once I received my tracking number I eagerly watched its status. Yesterday I saw that it was due to be delivered today. This was my first time ordering something from NewEgg but I only have positive things to say. The memory arrived today. I snapped it in on my lunch break and it works wonderfully. I have noticed a huge increase in performance so I’m very glad that I decided to upgrade. We’ll see how long it is before I get my desktop back but until then I’m happier about using my laptop.
I know in my last post regarding my computer situation I mentioned that I wanted to avoid reformatting my computer. Since then I’ve changed my mind. It’s been quite a while since I have reformatted it. There are several programs installed that I no longer use. Instead of burning all of my junk to CD I asked Michael to make a folder for me on his computer and share it so that I could just transfer everything over. This is the folder name he came up with. Apparently “laptop” became “lap” because the name was too long. I’ve just finished a double check of my files and programs and I believe I’m ready to format it. I have other reasons for wanting my computer to be in really good shape but I’m not quite ready to talk about it. I hope to get some things done this weekend so keep an eye out.