I just have the worst luck all the fricken time. I start the desktop computer up this morning to do my 4 measly hours of my part-time job that I need and it doesn’t start immediately. Odd. Manual shut down and try it again, it boots up but I don’t hear the case fan which has been on its way out and I actually have one on order to replace it which wasn’t a big deal so I open it up anyway and low and behold the CPU fan doesn’t work either. WTF? Why me? It’s a brand new damn motherboard. I head off to Radio Shack hell for a 15 pin connector adapter because the pedal I use for my transcription is a 9-pin. Radio Shack shut down. I was in shock. I go to Best Buy where they are absofuckinglutely never helpful and I of course get the wrong connection. They don’t have the right one. Next computer store, no dice. Head off to town when finally get the parts for it to work and now I’m on this damn tablet doing my part-time job. Oh yeah, I had to break to bitch about this entire thing. I started work 3 hours late. I’m not even messing with the damn desktop now and waiting to have money to buy a completely new system minus the hard drive from Newegg or something. This is utter bullshit.
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How awful! I’m sorry to hear about all your PC issues.
I understand you’re pissed and had a bad day, but you talk such good geek!
Hope the rest of the day goes better for you!
I’m with you. As someone who builds all of my machines (except laptops of course), I’m constantly disappointed in the current state of electronics retail. Everything is disposable now. Just buy a new one!
Good luck on work.
Man I really feel for you, I do. I wasted so much time on under-the-hood issues for years, and I continue to do so on clients’ machines at work. At least they are paying me to wade through the chaos. I remember the last straw for me, swapping out another hard drive, and debating with the tech guy about whether it was a virus or what, and thinking “I actually, really, don’t CARE if it’s a virus, I have stuff I need to DO”. And that was it.I waddled into the Apple Store that day, with my skeptic’s hat on, I promise you. Please don’t take this the wrong way, but I have to say that going Apple has completely changed working with computers when I’m on MY time. You can run windows, as I’m sure you know, IF you need to, and as far as the cost goes: the amount of time I didn’t spend tinkering, in the first few months even, made that a non-issue. I just get so much more done, without the time-sink afternoons spent scratching my head…… Best of luck to you.