Yep, it always happens when you least expect it. My trusty desktop of over 5 years has finally decided to retire. It is not terminal I suppose but why purchase a few hundred bucks worth of repair parts, install them, and then sit around and wait for the next malfunction? Right now I have it running in short bursts using a home fan to cool it and when it shuts off I have a devil of a time getting it to come back on. The power thing is over heating, the fan – what fan LOL and it triggers my surge protector to shut off. I am running RAID and one of the drives is making those funny pre crash noises- so I decided to use this as an excuse to bite the bullet and purchase – gasp – a new computer.
My new computer is sitting downstairs waiting to take its place up here in the “computer room”. As I browse through the 160 so GB of accumulated files that are on my hard drive I wonder how it ever got to this point. Geez half the stuff is years old but I kept em just in case – ya never know. I do have 80GB of MP3’s on a external usb drive and another 160 or so GB on my 300GB external drive so I do not have to worry about copying them all over to the new puter. But what about all the nifty programs that I have to pay to use on another computer? Which ones are worth the money? I so hate these decisions.
I am making note of which programs windows is so kind enough to tell me I have not used in 4 years and those that I use everyday.
I am off to cyber land to make sure I can reset up my dsl, printer, scanner, breakout box etc. the gps software, …. all that fun stuff. I am looking forward to starting all over again. It is like saying goodbye to a car you have spent a decade making memories in. Strange.
Well if you do not hear from me in a while you will know why. I have already disconnected my laptop from my little home network and am about to pull the plug.
This is HC4X5R6S9.377856 Pentium 4 cpu 2.53Ghz signing off.
UPDATE:
woo hoo and yahoo I am back online with only of few minor cliches. My new puter is way cool. I can watch tv, movies, fm radio, etc on it – emmm although my television is on so I can type here :). This thing has way too many plugs and jacks for my little mind. The only snag is my photo smart p1000 does not have usb drivers for xp and the new puter has no parallel port 🙁 So I am going to use the printer on my laptop and find another photo printer.
I have to redo my bookmarks, load office, photoshopCS, and dreamweaver. Then all will be good for awhile.
Ahhh, there’s nothing like the fingers whizzing along on a new computer that works really well. I bought a new computer a year ago and I’m still finding things I can do that I didn’t know the computer was rigged up to do! Congratulations and good luck!
Oh, what fun! I love new computers, even though they wreck my old ones for me. As soon as I use one that’s faster, cooler, has more bells and whistles I can hardly stand to use the others. I’m having that problem with the one in my office right now.
I’m glad the transition went well and envy your ability to be harsh with yourself when it comes to clearing the stuff. I just go out and buy another external drive..LOL.
BTW I really like your new design….very nice!
Poechewe,
It is fun for awhile :).
This thing has a television tuner and FM radio -umm proving to be distractions at the moment.
They sure have changed since my old Vic 20.
DrumsNWhistles,
The only files I should have tried to save where some videos of my dogs. One of my beloved BuddyBoxer – now deceased and a few of Catfish as a pup. I suppose this means I will have to jump start the old one or take out the drives and get the files that way.
External drives are the way to go! It is so fun to fill them full of stuff. MP3’s and photos to name a few. I am glad that I choose to store them on the external drives and not the hard drive in the computer. Although I have backups of most of em on CD’s it sure made that part of the transition easier and less stressing.