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Computer Madness

Feb 22, 2009 23:21

Hey y'all. So I'm sending this message out from my new computer, which I had to buy today when my old computer decided to bite the dust temporarily. It was working fine up until this morning, when I turned it on (or tried to) after waking up. The power came on fine, but the screen stayed black. This happened to me before when I had my desktop - ( Read more... )

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akishmo February 23 2009, 07:36:34 UTC

I got one of those Acer Aspire Ones back in October, I love it...

teknodave February 23 2009, 07:53:54 UTC

My friend has one too, he likes it.

It does not help you at this immediate moment, but when my PC started to act all wonky on me, I got a 500GB Western Digital drive that backs up my computer every other day. Maybe that is something to look at when the PC comes back.

I got it about six months ago or so, and it was only $120 US.

comicsfan February 23 2009, 10:17:29 UTC

My office bought one of those for one of our workers, and I had to configure it. You're right, it's a tiny keyboard, and it drove me crazy! I wasn't fond of the whining sound of the hard drive, either (or the fan, I'm still not sure).

I like the size of the unit, though. It's an elegant computer.

sndchasr February 23 2009, 19:30:23 UTC

Those little netbooks are handy. I thought about getting one.

I had the same problem you had with the notebook screen going black, but everything would spin up. I had unplug the power, remove the battery and then hold the power button for like 30 or so seconds. Then reattach the power cord and attempt a boot. If it boots back up, shutdown, put the battery back in and it should be ok unless there is a hardware problem. Some reason, it goes to sleep and can't get back up...kinda like me this morning hah