OMG WTF HP BBQ LKCAOEHFALKFJAS?
Hey, she lives! Sort of.
What's been up with me? Well, I've been sick (again -- seriously, I've been fluey or coldy for 4 of the last 6 weeks, halp). But more interestingly, I'm having the second-weirdest hardware problem I've ever had, after the Great Playstation FF9 Debacle of '02 (which was so WTF that even Sony was confused).
To wit: my laptop has been having trouble charging for a while, requiring a whole lot of push-me-pull-you between me and the cord. Okay, I've seen this before on my old Dell, I assume this is a loose connector pin. No big, just annoying, until today the battery stops charging altogether. Gross. I resolve to take it to J&R and hope that despite being out of warranty, it doesn't cost so much that I may as well buy a new one.
In steps my dad, who says he may as well take a look at it before I send it off and waste money. Fair enough. Except that he looks and it and says there's nothing wrong with it... except that my power adapters's connector is too small. WTF, say I, bewildered; it's a replacement cord, my third one, and the last one had the same problem. There's no way two separate companies could separately send me two adapters for the same computer that are two small, is there?
So we begin to investigate the matter, starting with flipping Serenity (my laptop, natch) over to check the product number... At which point we realize that the model number on the service tag is not the same as the model the computer is supposed to be, the computer on the warranty, or the computer HP claims it is.
Yep, folks: HP quite possibly sent me the wrong computer, with nearly all the trappings of the right one.
Possibly. We're honestly not sure what the fuck is going on. So instead of sending it in right away, I've agreed to undergo an experiment: we bought two new power adapters off eBay, one for the model Serenity is supposed to be, and one for the model she may actually be. Let's see which cuisine power cord reigns supreme!
And, once again: what the fuck? Seriously.
eta Also, thank goodness for Mighty Mouse (my netbook). Between being sick, apparently perpetually unemployed, and needing to write, I would just about die if I had no computer right now.
What's been up with me? Well, I've been sick (again -- seriously, I've been fluey or coldy for 4 of the last 6 weeks, halp). But more interestingly, I'm having the second-weirdest hardware problem I've ever had, after the Great Playstation FF9 Debacle of '02 (which was so WTF that even Sony was confused).
To wit: my laptop has been having trouble charging for a while, requiring a whole lot of push-me-pull-you between me and the cord. Okay, I've seen this before on my old Dell, I assume this is a loose connector pin. No big, just annoying, until today the battery stops charging altogether. Gross. I resolve to take it to J&R and hope that despite being out of warranty, it doesn't cost so much that I may as well buy a new one.
In steps my dad, who says he may as well take a look at it before I send it off and waste money. Fair enough. Except that he looks and it and says there's nothing wrong with it... except that my power adapters's connector is too small. WTF, say I, bewildered; it's a replacement cord, my third one, and the last one had the same problem. There's no way two separate companies could separately send me two adapters for the same computer that are two small, is there?
So we begin to investigate the matter, starting with flipping Serenity (my laptop, natch) over to check the product number... At which point we realize that the model number on the service tag is not the same as the model the computer is supposed to be, the computer on the warranty, or the computer HP claims it is.
Yep, folks: HP quite possibly sent me the wrong computer, with nearly all the trappings of the right one.
Possibly. We're honestly not sure what the fuck is going on. So instead of sending it in right away, I've agreed to undergo an experiment: we bought two new power adapters off eBay, one for the model Serenity is supposed to be, and one for the model she may actually be. Let's see which cuisine power cord reigns supreme!
And, once again: what the fuck? Seriously.
eta Also, thank goodness for Mighty Mouse (my netbook). Between being sick, apparently perpetually unemployed, and needing to write, I would just about die if I had no computer right now.