Electronics hate me
I got up this morning, all ready to face another weekend day at the office. I was going to get in early, too, so that I wouldn't be stuck working late. Working on the weekend is kinda crappy, but I was all prepared to be productive and get through enough that Monday and Tuesday wouldn't be as bad as they're shaping up to be.
I sat down at my desktop to check the weather, and was treated to screen filled with partial windows...some had menus and some didn't, some had words and no images, and others had images and random lines in place of the words. The recipe that I opened up to make for my dinner had the picture of the dish and a bunch of random characters, mostly squares, where the words should have been. And it was running ridiculously slow. I rebooted. Same issues. I rebooted again. Fewer of the same issues, but still running like a turtle though peanut butter.
Fuming, I went into the kitchen, started my crock pot dinner from memory, and started searching for docking stations compatible with my laptop so that I could prepare for what felt like the inevitable demise of my desktop. I mean, I don't really need two machines. A docking station would let me easily connect my laptop to the big pretty monitor and the full-sized keyboard when I felt like working/writing in my office (and to the plethora of other devices like my card reader, ipod, scanner, and printer when necessary), and when I wanted to be somewhere else, I could just pop it free and go. Perfect solution, right?
Wrong.
Fuming exploded into outright livid when I couldn't find a single reference to anything other than a battery for my Vaio. So, instead of getting to work at 9:30, I got there at 1, stayed until 7, grocery shopped until 7:45 and made it home in time to eat something before my scattered brain sent my tired body into shutdown mode. I was wandering through the aisles talking to myself. People were giving me funny looks. It wasn't pretty.
The desktop is behaving a bit better now, though I don't understand why. I downloaded the newest version of Norton 360 and got it set up and running...maybe that helped, though the lack of viruses or operational issues turned up by the scans fail to reveal how. I have a sinking feeling that this is far from my last scare , and suspect that it may not bonce back next time.
Anyone have any recommendations on where I can find accessories for a 3- or 4-year old Sony Vaio Model PCG-7M1L?
I sat down at my desktop to check the weather, and was treated to screen filled with partial windows...some had menus and some didn't, some had words and no images, and others had images and random lines in place of the words. The recipe that I opened up to make for my dinner had the picture of the dish and a bunch of random characters, mostly squares, where the words should have been. And it was running ridiculously slow. I rebooted. Same issues. I rebooted again. Fewer of the same issues, but still running like a turtle though peanut butter.
Fuming, I went into the kitchen, started my crock pot dinner from memory, and started searching for docking stations compatible with my laptop so that I could prepare for what felt like the inevitable demise of my desktop. I mean, I don't really need two machines. A docking station would let me easily connect my laptop to the big pretty monitor and the full-sized keyboard when I felt like working/writing in my office (and to the plethora of other devices like my card reader, ipod, scanner, and printer when necessary), and when I wanted to be somewhere else, I could just pop it free and go. Perfect solution, right?
Wrong.
Fuming exploded into outright livid when I couldn't find a single reference to anything other than a battery for my Vaio. So, instead of getting to work at 9:30, I got there at 1, stayed until 7, grocery shopped until 7:45 and made it home in time to eat something before my scattered brain sent my tired body into shutdown mode. I was wandering through the aisles talking to myself. People were giving me funny looks. It wasn't pretty.
The desktop is behaving a bit better now, though I don't understand why. I downloaded the newest version of Norton 360 and got it set up and running...maybe that helped, though the lack of viruses or operational issues turned up by the scans fail to reveal how. I have a sinking feeling that this is far from my last scare , and suspect that it may not bonce back next time.
Anyone have any recommendations on where I can find accessories for a 3- or 4-year old Sony Vaio Model PCG-7M1L?