Sometimes you just want to say "I told you so"...
So, the IT guy at the hospital has been ignoring me for weeks. I told him my computer was slowly committing suicide. Several times.
Several weeks ago, I got two BSOD in one day. I took this as a bad sign. It's been running so slowly that when I tried to print patient charts I had time to get up and get a drink and chat while it sent the print job to the printer one. page. at. a. time. Many phone calls and emails later I catch unsuspecting IT guy on our unit and basically drag him to my computer. After discovering that I am using a computer with A) only 256 of RAM (OMG, no wonder it sucks) and B) the inside of the casing is caked with dust (gross) and probably hasn't been blown out since the hospital opened.... He goes and gets RAM, takes it to blow it out, brings it back, plugs it in... and nothing. The motherboard 'sploded. It was defective - no wonder I was getting BSOD. The thing was melting itself. I felt vindicated.
Good news: my new 'puter has 1 gig of RAM and works so FAST. Bad news: was at work 90 min late b/c it took two hours to image my new 'puter's drive. Best part: i get paid OT - IT guy does not. I told him so...
I feel a little bad for enjoying being right so much... but it makes me mad that he treated me like a crazy person with no computer skills about this. He KNOWS that I'm better with this stuff than the nurses, he shouldn't have treated me the way he treats them.
Anyway - new computer! yay!
Several weeks ago, I got two BSOD in one day. I took this as a bad sign. It's been running so slowly that when I tried to print patient charts I had time to get up and get a drink and chat while it sent the print job to the printer one. page. at. a. time. Many phone calls and emails later I catch unsuspecting IT guy on our unit and basically drag him to my computer. After discovering that I am using a computer with A) only 256 of RAM (OMG, no wonder it sucks) and B) the inside of the casing is caked with dust (gross) and probably hasn't been blown out since the hospital opened.... He goes and gets RAM, takes it to blow it out, brings it back, plugs it in... and nothing. The motherboard 'sploded. It was defective - no wonder I was getting BSOD. The thing was melting itself. I felt vindicated.
Good news: my new 'puter has 1 gig of RAM and works so FAST. Bad news: was at work 90 min late b/c it took two hours to image my new 'puter's drive. Best part: i get paid OT - IT guy does not. I told him so...
I feel a little bad for enjoying being right so much... but it makes me mad that he treated me like a crazy person with no computer skills about this. He KNOWS that I'm better with this stuff than the nurses, he shouldn't have treated me the way he treats them.
Anyway - new computer! yay!