Daily Pill
A new computer
You forget how fragile all of this technology is until something goes wrong...
I had to completely rebuild our lifetime of documents from backups on a new computer today because our relatively new laptop decided to go on a blue screen/reboot frenzy that made it impossible to get into windows even in safe mode. I finally chased the problem down to a 1GB memory stick that is "guaranteed for life". So, I have the old laptop running at the minimum memory required just for windows to boot and I'm doing my best to get things transferred over to the new computer so we can run our business as usual tomorrow.
I bought the new computer when after 4 hours of troubleshooting I couldn't get our laptop to boot. We had 2 weeks worth of orders waiting to be processed and everything was only available in backup form. To make things worse, all of our software is designed for (and incidently only works with) XP and to "upgrade" all of them to Vista compatible would have run us around $800.00. So, I bought a laptop on-line that came installed with XP and had it shipped overnight...
Long story short - I have 2 laptops now that are working. The business is back on solid ground for the moment... Technology is both a blessing and a curse.
I had to completely rebuild our lifetime of documents from backups on a new computer today because our relatively new laptop decided to go on a blue screen/reboot frenzy that made it impossible to get into windows even in safe mode. I finally chased the problem down to a 1GB memory stick that is "guaranteed for life". So, I have the old laptop running at the minimum memory required just for windows to boot and I'm doing my best to get things transferred over to the new computer so we can run our business as usual tomorrow.
I bought the new computer when after 4 hours of troubleshooting I couldn't get our laptop to boot. We had 2 weeks worth of orders waiting to be processed and everything was only available in backup form. To make things worse, all of our software is designed for (and incidently only works with) XP and to "upgrade" all of them to Vista compatible would have run us around $800.00. So, I bought a laptop on-line that came installed with XP and had it shipped overnight...
Long story short - I have 2 laptops now that are working. The business is back on solid ground for the moment... Technology is both a blessing and a curse.
posted by VirP at
6:17 PM
2 Comments:
You talking RAM or a usb thumb drive?
1 GB of RAM. I wish that it was just a removable drive =). It's got "lifetime warranty" printed on it, so with any luck I'll be able to get a replacement. At least we have a back up computer now - although I found out today that they put a DVD ROM drive in the new one instead of a DVD RW, so after all of the work reinstaling software, I am going to have to do it again in a week or so...
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