Tuesday night, my two year old Toshiba did not want to go into "sleep" mode or power off. I thought little of it...until Wednesday morning when it would not load windows. The power light and the fan came on, but after that, nothing. So, I suffered through three days of just my iPhone internet access and took it to the repair shop on Friday.
My subsequent facebook status message was a quote from The Wizard of Oz:
"As coroner, I must aver I thoroughly examined her. She's not only merely dead, she's really most sincerely dead." - The Coroner of Munchkinland
My coroner is Cyber Solutions Inc. (CSI) and their diagnosis is that the motherboard on the Toshiba is gone and replacing a motherboard is not worth the cost. I was advised to purchase a new computer and have the files from the old hard drive transferred to either a disc or the hard drive on the new computer.
Soooooo...I drove to Best Buy and discussed their selection with three different salespeople. I left there with two new computers. (My husband broke his five or six years ago.) After going to Wal Mart for groceries, I took my new computer back to CSI to have the data transferred to it. Because of the backlog of work, it will be about a week before I get my new computer. I drove home from there and set up my husband's computer and promptly began using it. While I have spent considerable time on it, he has used it more than I have.
So, now I am set for the week and awaiting a call from CSI.
