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[edithmatilda]

Amelia is broken, which is not good. I have not looked at her yet but am told that her power button flashes and she makes a strange thud noise but nowt else happens. That sounds like Broken to me. Bad broken where much of her is permanently bollocksed. Ho hum

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[wishfulaces]

Computer wrongness is probably the seventh circle of hell. Nothing else can send me into rage and fear so instantaneously and so thoroughly as computer wrongness. Though I did just this week--I think, hope--manage to clean my hard drive of trojans without having to reformat, which really terrifies me due to never having done it before.

[edithmatilda]

I reformatted once. It wasn't bad and my puter was suddenly a lot faster. I think my main terror is that I will BREAK SOMETHING but since Amelia sounds broken beyond belief anyway I'm sort of past that.

[wishfulaces]

That is my main terror, that I will do something WRONG and never ever ever be able to fix it. Which is really quite ridiculous, but it's a hard terror to overcome.

Different for Amelia though, yes, since it does sound fairly broken. Could you even reformat in that case? I hope you can sort something out that doesn't involve turning it into a paperweight.

[edithmatilda]

I do not feel my fear is ridiculous. I have no skills and cannot afford to replace the hunk of steaming metal my mistakes create!

I suspect we're talking paperweight, alas. The graphics card is newish but AGP so would not be likely to go in any new puter. It would be quite worth sticking it on Freecycle anyway, for people stuck on ageing machines. The sound card and speakers can be installed in a new thing and the monitor's passable, which is something. And hard drives etc should be OK as far as I know. My gimmicky DVD writer is external, so that too is good for I am lazy.

It is still going to be a while until I can afford a new one though. Fortunately Maverick is OK for slow Second Life, and will play The Sims 2 if you don't mind having to restart every quarter of an hour when the graphics card offs itself. Not that I do that much what with the craziness of it.

[wishfulaces]

Yes, it is being able to afford the mistakes that's really the difficult bit.

There are always tinkerers around. My friends sold their beat-up old car for a dollar to a friend of theirs because he wanted a toy, or something. And at least you *do* have a backup computer to do things. I was afraid I was going to have to reconnect my laptop to the Internet and that would probably have been unpleasant.

[edithmatilda]

The backup computer is a vast relief, yes. It isn't really any crappier than Amelia what with being a fair bit newer, but there are various things like sound and video editing that aren't so viable on it. The crashing repeatedly thing with Sims is less than ideal, but then Amelia was full of too much immovable music stuff of Jack's to have room for Simmery anyway.

Now I have to find out what is happening in the world of computers, since I last bought a main one five years ago and I gather there has been some sort of Change since then.