The power cord on my laptop is acting up. I have to fiddle with the middle connector to get power to reach the laptop. (The battery hasn't held a good charge for a while.) It's a 4-5 year old HP Pavilion so I'm not sure how much it would cost to replace it. Being the computer is as old as it is already, it's about due to be replaced so I have ( Read more... )

Damn it! It seems that my USB drive died on me and now I can't access all the stuff I worked on today and saved to it. GRRR!!! I plug it in and it says that the USB device is malfunctioning. I am NOT a happy camper. :(

Well, I was going to be reloading my computer this weekend but it looks like the problem is hardware instead of software. It's times like this that I realize the limitations of how much I do know about computers. (Wish I had a real job where I could learn stuff from people and learning stuff wasn't discouraged.) Friday, I came home and double ( Read more... )

Think I'm finally nearing the end of my cold. The congestion in my chest is finally starting to clear out and I can breathe again. Also finally managed to get the phone number and name of the physical therapy place from my doctor's office so I'll call them today too ( Read more... )

I got the hard drive. I opened up the case and put in the new DVD burner I got a while back but had never taken the time to install. I installed the new 160GB hard drive. I boot up my machine using the Ultimate Boot CD and start looking through its utilities for something that will fdisk. All of a sudden, the computer shuts off. I hit the ( Read more... )

Came home and my tower won't boot. No EQ2 and no CoH/V until I get a new hard drive and reload. My life sucks.

I need some advice from the video card/gamer guys out there. For a little while now, there's a fan that's been kinda noisy in my computer. I'm having a hard time telling if it's the video card fan or the processor fan. Lately, while I've been playing EQ2, I've been noticing a lot of lag on and off. I notice it less in CoH/CoV so I thought it ( Read more... )

I went to CompUSA tonight after work. I figured I'd get a replacement hard drive to my laptop and install it tonight. I got to the store and was looking at the hard drives when one of the workers asked if he could help. I figured it would be easier to ask him where the notebook hard drives were instead of trying to hunt through rows of boxes. ( Read more... )

First, happy birthdays to cpj and react2rhythmOK, now for the advice part. It looks like I'm going to have no choice but go into debt again to replace my laptop. *sigh* If I'm going to do it though, I want one that I can use to play EQ2 (and thereforce CoH since it has lower specs) with other decent specs. CD burner (if not CD/DVD burner), wireless (which I ( Read more... )

Yesterday went too well. I should have known something was wrong. I woke up this morning and go to my laptop to check my e-mail only to find out that the hard drive is now failing. I've lost everything on had on there and that was my primary computer as I had gotten into using the tower for gaming. Then my aunt came over and we ended up finding ( Read more... )