Moments of Permanence - August 15th, 2009

About August 15th, 2009

Computer/life update 01:40 pm
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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And in other news... 02:25 pm
I wondered if my digital tuner was in fact entirely correct, since sometimes it wavers on which note a certain string is playing.

Nope, my digital tuner is just fine.

How do I know?

[livejournal.com profile] firefly21 stopped by the house briefly. I showed her my guitar, and she plucked the strings and noted it was in tune. And she has perfect pitch.

Worry dispelled!
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