Friday, June 7, 2013

Computer still broken................

I'm kind of bummed out tonight, as I spent most of the day backing up my Linux machine, and late in the afternoon, I finally got the case off of the machine...  Remember I built this computer about three years ago.....

But that didn't mean that I remembered what was inside of the box....  The screws hadn't been out of it in all that time........  But now the hard drive is questionable and the time to fix it is before it quits entirely...

But it was just my luck that the drive was the old technology IDE style drive, and of course when I purchased the new drive last winter, I purchased a SATA drive...   But not the cables and stuff that it takes to hook it up....  Assumed the one in the box was the newer style........but it wasn't...

So right at 5 PM, I was driving like a maniac headed for the computer parts store before they closed...  Bought the parts I thought would fix it and came back.......

And after about an hour of installing the new drive, I determined that the new sealed up in mylar plastic drive is broken....  Of course since it was purchased last January, or perhaps even December and never installed there's absolutely nothing I can do about it.............  Go buy a new one and pitch the broken new one......!

So I am without my big screen desktop favorite computer tonight........  Well I could have put it back together with the old drive so it would work, but that seems like a waste of time....

Loyce decided that she was going to mow the yard today, and I hustled right outside and put gas in the self propelled walk behind Lawnboy...  It's older, but has a magnesium deck and aluminum motor, so its much lighter than anything you could buy today...

She did all of the trimming, and the front yard, and I thought things were going to be really good...  So I hopped on the JD rider and finished the large part of the back yard in fairly quick order...

But that's when I learned that the Home Depot people were arriving with paving stones to do landscaping.....  Uh,,,,,,  well, I guess we will be stumbling around these bricks for a while because the folks that are supposed to put them in are weeks behind.......  This will be an unfolding story for the future...

Anyway I'm still grumbling over my disassembled computer...  I'll have to go get more new parts tomorrow... But the day is turning out to be a zoo, so we'll see if there is time to work on it....

Retired Rod

5 comments:

  1. At least you know where your paving stones are. All this yard stuff - way too much work. Good luck with the computer.

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  2. These computer issues are sent to try us, Rod! You are definitely a Linux die-hard to go through all of this torment. Good luck with the new drive today.

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    1. But Rick, its the three year old hard drive that is giving me fits..... Linux will load without a hitch when I get the hardware working......

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  3. Depending on the manufacturer, you should have a 2 to 5 year warranty on the drive and should be able to contact their tech support to verify it is the drive that is bad. That should get you an RMA number to ship it to their facility, directly and bypass the place you bought it. I had a 3 year old Hatachi drive that went bad on me that they replaced for free once they had verified on the phone that the drive was gone.

    Not a big consolation but it does get things on down the road.

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    1. Budd, its a Toshiba and has September 2012 as a label date right on the drive.... 500GB Sata 7200Rpm... Might be worth checking it out.....

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