Jimbo
Plumber
Came home from a couple of days visiting new granddaugher born 1/3/08, to find computer ^#$^%$^#@%.
Had the geek squad at Best Buy check it out, ruled out power supply and hard drive. Motherboard issue, so give it up! Bought a new HP Pavillion, and of course it has Vista. I am not loving it, but what is a person to do. I may regret not getting a MAC!
I am pretty much 'left handed' about all this stuff, but I am up and running. I had the geek squad transfer my data from the old hard drive, so I did not lose pictures, etc. The darn thing tries to stuff AOL down your throat, and I don't wan't that. I use ATT Yahoo DSL, which I can get to , but it doesn't really act like it used to!
Went to HP website to get a driver for my printer. Answer was : "too bad, so sad; you get to buy a new printer!"
Oh well, I did get to my forums, which was the real panic! Do any of you other guys go into "internet withdrawl syndrome" if you can't get to the internet for a couple of days? Fortunately, while I was away, the hotel has a public computer in the lobby for guest use.
Had the geek squad at Best Buy check it out, ruled out power supply and hard drive. Motherboard issue, so give it up! Bought a new HP Pavillion, and of course it has Vista. I am not loving it, but what is a person to do. I may regret not getting a MAC!
I am pretty much 'left handed' about all this stuff, but I am up and running. I had the geek squad transfer my data from the old hard drive, so I did not lose pictures, etc. The darn thing tries to stuff AOL down your throat, and I don't wan't that. I use ATT Yahoo DSL, which I can get to , but it doesn't really act like it used to!
Went to HP website to get a driver for my printer. Answer was : "too bad, so sad; you get to buy a new printer!"
Oh well, I did get to my forums, which was the real panic! Do any of you other guys go into "internet withdrawl syndrome" if you can't get to the internet for a couple of days? Fortunately, while I was away, the hotel has a public computer in the lobby for guest use.