 Computer/life update
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Aug. 15th, 2009 @ 01:40 pm 
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I do in fact appreciate the comments to my last post about this, and will reply eventually.
Correspondence is sort of falling behind - along with uni and other things - due to, well, mental health issues. Of the "so, last night I got as far as actually writing out a suicide note" variety. But everything worked out okay, I am okay, everybody is still coping, etc.
Anyway, my laptop.
I took it in to the service centre on Monday, where they gave me an estimate of "three or four days" for repair. This being Friday, I called around today to get an update. First I called the general tech support line, since I didn't have a number for the service centre, where the dude who answered said that no updates had been entered on the system, so he gave me the direct line to the service centre.
I called them, and the guy went and checked with the tech guys, and reported back:
- They're waiting for a new optical drive to arrive.
- They're still testing the motherboard, and may be waiting for a replacement for that, too.
Which suggests that yes, in fact, my motherboard had fried itself, which is consistent with the symptoms poor sick Destiny was having - first the audio jacks failing, then other things starting to misfire, and then total boot failure.
Bright side: odds are, my hard drive is fine, which means that I shouldn't have to repeat the work on it I'd already done. (But I still need to clean it up somewhat.)
Down side: I'm totally not getting my baby back before next week. (At the earliest, but I expect I *should* get it next week.)
I am assuming that the Asus service centre are competent to fix my Asus laptop and will be able to get fully compatible replacement parts for things like the motherboard. I am quite glad that the computer is still under warranty and I did nothing to *void* the warranty, because some reasonably significant components apparently need replacing.Current Location: zecter: main room Current Music: wind and rain outside (I'm not leaving the house remix)
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I hope it's all fixed soon. And that icon is so funny and apropos.
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| From: | ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png) willow |
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August 15th, 2009 02:21 am (UTC) |
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Wait a minute. Didn't you get an Asus laptop because your desktop went wonky and needed fixing? Has the Asus bitten the big one now as well?
In which case I need to ask you if you acclimatize your tech before you start using it.
IE - Having it near you, without using it, so it can get used to your electromagnetic field.
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| From: | sami |
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August 15th, 2009 02:59 am (UTC) |
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No, my desktop is perfectly functional - or at least, it was when it was last plugged in, about six months ago. It's at my parents' house. I have nowhere to put it, here, and my laptop is faster/better in pretty much every way.
I don't acclimatise my tech, but as a rule, my tech actually works fine - this is the first time I've had major hardware failings on a computer.
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| From: | willow |
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August 15th, 2009 03:01 am (UTC) |
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Didn't you -just- buy a notebook mini Asus?
Anyway, if this is the first time your tech's gone haywire it's probably just a run of ill luck. I, on the other hand, have to get all my tech used to my wonky body electro-thingies. So they don't break.
It's odd, I'll grant you. But so far, it works.
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| From: | sami |
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August 15th, 2009 03:17 am (UTC) |
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Right, yes. The notebook mini-Asus is because my proper Asus laptop is broken. I now have two computers (excluding the ancient and unregarded desktop): an Asus 17" widescreen laptop, and an Asus EEE PC.
Both Asus, just different scales of smallness. (My regular laptop, by laptop standards, is actually huge, but it is *awesome*. When it's not broken.)
If it works, go with it, but my personal EM field seems pretty limited. (Unlike, say, Chas, who has a tremendous ability to generate static electricity, if nothing else.) My laptop's borkenness mostly seems to be the result of a dying motherboard, and dodgy mobos happen now and then.
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| From: | willow |
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August 15th, 2009 03:33 am (UTC) |
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That is true about the motherboards. My initial wtf, was because i thought you'd meant that the new mini you'd just bought had borked too. And I was all WTF Asus Australia?
I have static electricity issues too. It's at its worse, however, whenever I'm near my mother. Thus it is one of the reasons she has for refusing to hug me - fear I'll shock her.
I like to think of it as my own personal defense system :)
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