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I arrive home from a tough day of scrubbing pots and pans, and what do I find?
(ooc) do not judge the messy house. *stares* I know powerful people...
My kitties have signed for a strange large box for nothing is more fun for a kitty than a mysterious box. As a closed box is somewhat boring I quickly open it up. Well... not so quickly as the box was rather well strapped up.
Inside I find THE BEAST!
!!!
Wow...
I decide to just look at it a while and size it up.
After removing the packing. I plug this bad boy in and settle down and wait to be impressed...Denied! It says something about a boot disc. Like it is not finding one. Hmm... All the money I paid and the OS is not there... (remember... I r not smart about computers.)
I put in the Vista disc and try again... *grumbles* where is that code at? I find the code for the 7 upgrade, but that can't be it. A little birdy (thanks Ian!) told be to look on the case. *doh!* There it is with the code written in very small and hard to read symbols.
Well, Vista wants to be installed and asks where to go. *huh*
"Go where you always go." I mutter...
After attempting the same thing over and over expecting it to somehow work.
I notice there is no place for Vista to go. There is no hard drive. *blinks*
I know this machine has been thoroughly tested not once but several times. It had a diploma that says so. I look over all of the material and ponder...
A cold sweat breaks out as I realize I must enter the belly of the beast. It said so in the trouble shooting guide. With as much confidence as a dish washer performing brain surgery, I dive in. What a strange alien world!
I reach inside a try to feel about for something anything a miss. Well, there are loose wires and such everywhere, but I think most of them are supposed to be, for now anyway. I reach around and feel behind the hard drive and I find something that was unplugged the likely needed to be replugged. I stress over this a moment because I can not see a thing.
I was then that I realized that the other side panel was removable as well. *sighs* Yes. there is an empty slot. I locate the most likely loose wire that looked like it would fit... It does. Happily, I power the rig back up... Nothing. Same message... no hard drive.
I power down and go back for seconds... I trace the line I plugged in and another loose end. Those wires were well wrapped thus making it difficult follow. I was determined though.
Pulling out the charts, I locate where the hard drive was supposed to connect to the mother board. (Why is it called mother board?) Right were it needed to be... obscured by the video card. *shakes head*
I fiddle about and finally get my fat fingers behind the card and plug the damn thing in. It took a really long while...
I power up and there it is! It is alive!!!!!!
Now this little story may not impress you geeks... Before this I had never done anything more than change memory. I was pretty proud of myself. *chuckles*
(ooc) do not judge the messy house. *stares* I know powerful people...
My kitties have signed for a strange large box for nothing is more fun for a kitty than a mysterious box. As a closed box is somewhat boring I quickly open it up. Well... not so quickly as the box was rather well strapped up.
Inside I find THE BEAST!
!!!
Wow...
I decide to just look at it a while and size it up.
After removing the packing. I plug this bad boy in and settle down and wait to be impressed...Denied! It says something about a boot disc. Like it is not finding one. Hmm... All the money I paid and the OS is not there... (remember... I r not smart about computers.)
I put in the Vista disc and try again... *grumbles* where is that code at? I find the code for the 7 upgrade, but that can't be it. A little birdy (thanks Ian!) told be to look on the case. *doh!* There it is with the code written in very small and hard to read symbols.
Well, Vista wants to be installed and asks where to go. *huh*
"Go where you always go." I mutter...
After attempting the same thing over and over expecting it to somehow work.
I notice there is no place for Vista to go. There is no hard drive. *blinks*
I know this machine has been thoroughly tested not once but several times. It had a diploma that says so. I look over all of the material and ponder...
A cold sweat breaks out as I realize I must enter the belly of the beast. It said so in the trouble shooting guide. With as much confidence as a dish washer performing brain surgery, I dive in. What a strange alien world!
I reach inside a try to feel about for something anything a miss. Well, there are loose wires and such everywhere, but I think most of them are supposed to be, for now anyway. I reach around and feel behind the hard drive and I find something that was unplugged the likely needed to be replugged. I stress over this a moment because I can not see a thing.
I was then that I realized that the other side panel was removable as well. *sighs* Yes. there is an empty slot. I locate the most likely loose wire that looked like it would fit... It does. Happily, I power the rig back up... Nothing. Same message... no hard drive.
I power down and go back for seconds... I trace the line I plugged in and another loose end. Those wires were well wrapped thus making it difficult follow. I was determined though.
Pulling out the charts, I locate where the hard drive was supposed to connect to the mother board. (Why is it called mother board?) Right were it needed to be... obscured by the video card. *shakes head*
I fiddle about and finally get my fat fingers behind the card and plug the damn thing in. It took a really long while...
I power up and there it is! It is alive!!!!!!
Now this little story may not impress you geeks... Before this I had never done anything more than change memory. I was pretty proud of myself. *chuckles*