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so saturday (which is now yesterday for us, ugh) we went out and got replacement mouse and new cd/dvd-rom drive that we can use with this motherboard. (the cord for the disc drive is red and the hd is blue and this amuses me, ehehe.)
installing drivers for the motherboard itself via the cd doesn't seem to have helped, but it did let us install some other stuff like the ethernet port (which was unneeded since the modem is mostly set up via usb) and some audio stuff we probably don't care about.
then somehow it broke again and we spent two hours getting it back to the "okay but don't you dare restart" mode it was in friday night (except now sometimes the monitor is being bitching), oh god this is so annoying and we're really kinda stuck with what to do, so we hope to take it to the store we got the motherboard from and ask them to fix it next weekend but i dunno.
that costs money, and we've spent too much in the last two months and therefor have no idea how we will afford a room at ikasucon, even with staff discount, but i guess the parents offer to give money for it every year so we can ask for their help or something.
honestly at this point i'm sorta wishing we just got a new computer but we're too far in the hole to give up on these things and motherboards can't be returned, just exchanged so...i dunno, i guess we'll figure something out or maybe try to fiddle with it again...maddin used to know computers a lot better than this but he's forgotten so much its not very helpful.
maybe the internet will help us, but today we have work and then need to try not to fall asleep while the car FINALLY gets her fucking oil change and given the emotional wreck we've been lately (....largely my fault...) i doubt we'll be up to trying to fix anything and will just go "plspls keep working like this" and internets, and probably video game.
so, uh, if we disappear from teh intertubes again we probably broke it and decided to get professional help, but hopefully we'll still be around for awhile. now i hope we can nap some between now and work but we're wide awake and its really annoying and depressing so, ugh, whatever.
eta: i think new mouse may be hurting wrist, oh joy -.-
installing drivers for the motherboard itself via the cd doesn't seem to have helped, but it did let us install some other stuff like the ethernet port (which was unneeded since the modem is mostly set up via usb) and some audio stuff we probably don't care about.
then somehow it broke again and we spent two hours getting it back to the "okay but don't you dare restart" mode it was in friday night (except now sometimes the monitor is being bitching), oh god this is so annoying and we're really kinda stuck with what to do, so we hope to take it to the store we got the motherboard from and ask them to fix it next weekend but i dunno.
that costs money, and we've spent too much in the last two months and therefor have no idea how we will afford a room at ikasucon, even with staff discount, but i guess the parents offer to give money for it every year so we can ask for their help or something.
honestly at this point i'm sorta wishing we just got a new computer but we're too far in the hole to give up on these things and motherboards can't be returned, just exchanged so...i dunno, i guess we'll figure something out or maybe try to fiddle with it again...maddin used to know computers a lot better than this but he's forgotten so much its not very helpful.
maybe the internet will help us, but today we have work and then need to try not to fall asleep while the car FINALLY gets her fucking oil change and given the emotional wreck we've been lately (....largely my fault...) i doubt we'll be up to trying to fix anything and will just go "plspls keep working like this" and internets, and probably video game.
so, uh, if we disappear from teh intertubes again we probably broke it and decided to get professional help, but hopefully we'll still be around for awhile. now i hope we can nap some between now and work but we're wide awake and its really annoying and depressing so, ugh, whatever.
eta: i think new mouse may be hurting wrist, oh joy -.-