What next....

[Dean Romig]

Originally Posted by Frank Cronin

Sorry to hear Dean! I got the dreaded "blue screen" and luckily the local PC repair shop was able to restore my files. Now I have an external hard drive to back up once a week. Very important since we load and save pictures, personal items, stuff for work, etc. that are irreplaceable if the data is lost...

Frank, our Research Chairman might disagree with the wisdom of depending entirely on one external hard drive

[Dean Romig]

Originally Posted by Russ Jackson

Another couple hundred bucks into Cyber Space !

Which might otherwise have found their way into my dedicated Parker fund

[Dean Romig]

Originally Posted by scott kittredge

what the hell is a mother board? this stuff is over my head

Okay Scott.... Birds and Bees 101

The "Mother board" and the "Father board" get together (in either a laptop or a desktop position) and soon there are a bunch of little sili-chips running around.

[Dean Romig]

Mark, I've had this HP for four years and other than this mother board episode it has worked flawlessly. It cost $1950 including the Windows XP software and some anti-virus software.

[J.B. Books]

Originally Posted by Dean Romig

Okay Scott.... Birds and Bees 101

The "Mother board" and the "Father board" get together (in either a laptop or a desktop position) and soon there are a bunch of little sili-chips running around.

I told ya that porn was the root cause now your drawing images of fornicating computer parts

[Richard Flanders]

My sympathies Dean. My research has showed the the Seagate external hard drives, which I think used to be called Maxtor's, are the best of the backup HD's. I have several and like them a lot. I don't install any of the software that comes with them, but you might want to if you need automatic backup functions. Below is a picture of a misbehaving laptop I had years back. I wanted to give it away so tried to format the HD; the screen promptly told me something to the effect, "where have you been newb?! We're Windows 95 now and don't do this "format C" thing any more because we don't trust you to manage your own computer".... This was my answer to that. This picture hangs on the wall of computer geeks around the globe. This was a fully functional $4500 laptop(on it's third mother board by the way), but a guy has to draw the line on principles somewhere...

[Dean Romig]

Great picture Rich!! Man have I been tempted to do similar things to similar inanimate objects over the years!

I see you've only attained the level of a rubber collared splitting maul. Eventually you'll graduate to what I did a few years ago. I had overshot the saw-log enough times that I think I had replaced the maul handle about a half-dozen times so I finally just welded a 1 1/2" steel shaft to my maul head and have yet to break the head off. It's a mother to swing with any kind of repetition but it sure gets the job done!

[Richard Flanders]

The steel shaft handle on the maul won't happen. The vibration would be brutal and my hands are in bad enough shape as it is from years of rock hammer use. I bought that maul in 1979 and just replaced the handle two years ago and don't expect to ever replace it again. Wait till you see what I do to the next misbehaving computer! I have an elaborate plan that involves some interesting devices that will delight all that see the process.... you can't let these electronic contrivances get the upper hand... not ever... Feel free to post this pic in a prominent place where your computer can see it...

[C grade]

Mark
Buy a Dell!!! I love mine.
David

[Autumn Daze]

"Little silichips"? I this what happens when us old guy's start talkin about computers? Scary stuff.......