Monday, April 9, 2018

Computers, I just want to kill them when they die

Of course, it hard to kill something that is dead.

My laptop died and I knew something was wrong with it.  I had even mentioned it to my husband (my IT guy).  He said I should back up my files.  Of course, I hadn't done that yet when it died.  My younger son gave me another laptop to use until that gets fixed but it is so different than mine that it was making me crazy.  It also kept updating forever!  It was either windows 8 or 7 so it updated to windows 10 and then there were a few more updates.  I couldn't get a few other things to work and ended up downloading drivers.  I still can't get my wireless earbuds to work with it though.  Grrr.

I impatiently waited for someone to look at my laptop.  Everyone here is good with computers.  My husband works in IT and my oldest son is working on his computer science degree to do the same thing.  My younger son learns by doing and googling.  When I have a problem my youngest son usually fixes it.  If he can't than I ask my older son but he is taking classes and working full time.  If he can't fix it than I ask my husband who never wants to work on computers after working all day.  So I ended up waiting till Saturday.  I let my husband sleep in.  I made him breakfast.  I waited when he took a nap.  Finally, my oldest son came out and I asked him if he'd look at my computer.  He opened it up.......... and it just worked.

On Saturday morning, before I asked him to look at it, I opened it up just to see if it was doing the same thing still and it was.  I got a black screen with the message that it was running a repair thing and that I should not turn off my computer.  Before, it would do that forever and then it would just go totally black.  I've left it on for hours with no result.  Right after it died my younger son downloaded some program online and ran a diagnostic on it and it downloaded some files (maybe drivers) and did something but he said it didn't seem to be fixed.  That last time on Saturday morning when I saw the message I just closed the laptop but it would have stayed on.  It would stay on for a little while before eventually going to sleep.  When my oldest son opened it and asked me what my password was I was surprised because it never showed that.  I just logged in and it worked.

Now my files are backed up and I am so glad!  I'm still a little nervous about using that laptop though.  I'm currently using the one my son loaned me.  I got used to it and the Edge browser so now I think I want to keep this one in my room so I can use it in bed.  Some days I feel too bad to get up so I stay in bed and rest.  I can keep my other one in the living room and have them both plugged in so they won't die.  Before, if I had my computer in my room I had to get the power cord and the only outlet that can reach is behind my headboard.  Now I can keep this one plugged in and my other laptop can stay in the living room.  This one wasn't being used.  My son had planned to return it but he never did.  So I ended up with two laptops.

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