URNotAlone

Computer Killers!

February 15th, 2007 5:48 pm MST

Well what a fun time I have had lately with the wonders of IT hardware! I was chatting away on webcam a couple of weeks ago & my puter just locked up solid. No problems I thought ….when in doubt reboot! Unfortunately upon starting back up all I saw was the black screen of death! Really took the shine from the evening & ruined our photo shoot as well as I didn’t feel in the mood anymore! lol , lucky we all ready had some nice pics anyway (one of them with this blog!).Anyways I eventually diagnosed motherboard failure (which was much better than my initial fear that it was the hard drive!) So I dismantled the PC & removed the motherboard & awaited the replacement….end of the story?.. I wish!! New motherboard arrives put it all back together & everything seems ok until I plug the peripherals back in … another motherboard failure!! Turns out there was a fault in the webcam that shorted something in the motherboard! Not only that it destroyed my ADSL modem as well! So now with my 2nd new motherboard & a new modem I’m finally back online after a week & a half of trouble…whew! The funny thing is I took the camera back to the large retail outlet & the service tech proceeded to plug the cam into his computer (I warned him but him being the big IT tech & me just a dumb customer he chose to ignore it) & it killed his PC as well! Lol beware the computer eating webcams!! He said he has never seen anything like it before.So behind on my website updates & all my other stuff it will take another week to catch up for sure!! Back to the photo shoot on the fate full night it was a fun one with me in my little pony outfit & Venita weaving some yummy white ropes around the shiny black latex! I was so happy with the results they went straight onto the website in front of some other material. I’m so happy I’m back online & everything is working as it should again….just the catch up work to do!Cya next timeNicci