Carol H Tucker Passionate about knowledge management and organizational development, expert in loan servicing, virtual world denizen and community facilitator, and a DISNEY fan
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beladona Memorial Be warned:in this very rich environment where you can immerse yourself so completely, your emotions will become engaged -- and not everyone is cognizant of that. Among the many excellent features of SL, there is no auto-return on hearts, so be wary of where your's wanders...
I bought this PC at the beginning of last year and on the whole, was happy with it. But those who follow me in Facebook or in Second Life, know that I have been whining and complaining about a series of computer problems for the past six weeks: graphics that will not load, USB ports that stop functioning, drivers that suddenly lose their updated version, WIN7 deciding it was not a valid copy, the occassional problem with and slowness during booting up. Last night it all came to a head -- instead of booting up the computer gave me the blue screen of death, informing me that I had corrupted memory and recommending I contact my admistrator.
er, hello, I AM the adminstrator you stupid souless machine!
So I spent about twenty minutes trying to get WIN to load, going into secure mode, telling it to choose a restore point [only had that option once], and after multiple attempts, pulled out the paperwork and found a DELL customer support line and called it. Great -- one of those automated pre-Siri voices asking me to tell her what the problem was. "Computer will not boot up" and she transfers me to a tech with a heavy accent. Well Carlos and I had a few communication problems, but he stayed on the line for 1 1/2 horus trying different things and then walking me through opening the case and disassembling the PC to get to the memotry, which mean taking out the fan and heat synch and unplugging cables
I "reset" the memory by taking it out and putting it back in again. When I tried to start it up after getting it back together [never did get that case back on right tho] it started beeping. Apparently DELL PC's "talk" to their techs via morse code. Carlos said it was the memory, ordered the part, sent it to the local tech
Good news: Carlos was great with this FFNT [fumble fingered non tech] -- and it is till under warranty so this won't cost me a thing Bad news: No SL or D3 -- I am on the iPad until further notice and the tech that will come out only works 9-5, M-F
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