Category Archives: TECHNOLOGY

Well, it looks like somebody got the Mac for the New Year. Continue reading →

Unreal.  In the technology field, no less.  To get the old fashioned service and caring on one of the newest inventions such as this DELL Laptop. Brad, a Dell rep for the Dell Online Community Outreach program wandered onto this … Continue reading →

Rather a nice surprise to see how Dell reps go above and beyond to keep customers happy.  Brad works at Dell and evidently wandered onto Spinning and left a comment after reading my posts on the replacement of the LCD … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Well I did it.  I replaced the laptop LCD and it’s working just fine.  The only problem I had was with those damn screws and I finally was able to loosen and get them out with plenty of patience and … Continue reading →

Should’ve taken less than an hour to replace the lcd in the laptop monitor.  I think it could’ve.  The connections are easy enough. Except that some effing animal put this one together and glued the bezel on and tightened the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Just got the replacement parts for the laptop screen—faster than lightning, yes but uh…I didn’t realize that it was really just the LCD screen and cables and stuff so that the whole cover has to be taken apart and put … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Well, it’s as I thought.  I hooked the laptop up to the new pc monitor and it worked so I was able to contact Dell and had a lovely online support chat: 8:56:31 AM  SMB_Miguel_167710 I am sending a replacement … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Actually, it’s been hinting for a while that it wasn’t feeling well.  Now the screen goes black and I can’t get it to stay on long enough to reach any program.  I’ve been putting off calling Dell because I can’t … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Have almost all the software in and working properly on the new pc, even installing new drivers for the monitor, upgrading to the latest Quicken program, getting Media Player back up to version 11 and installing the Nvidia encoder so … Continue reading → Continue reading →

One of the primary uses of Microsoft’s Solitaire is to visually note any increase in computer speed after the addition of any RAM modules in an upgrade. I have  2 Gig of memory in this new machine, but according to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Aside from the fun in problem-solving and learning new things, there is great satisfaction in building something that works.  Sometimes it’s a computer.  Sometimes it’s a pie, or squeezing grapes or peaches into wine. As you can see from the … Continue reading →

Had I known that the software side of the new pc was going to go so well, I would not have put off this building of the main pc for so long.  I’ve never had a problem with the hardware … Continue reading → Continue reading →

For the first time in all the years I’ve been building computers the hardware gave me grief and the software didn’t.  Of course, I’ve still got to activate Win XP and that’ll take another phone call to Microsoft to explain … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I have never had the trouble with the hardware that I’m having with this system.  The case has four bays for CD units or the like, and six bays for the hard drives and floppy, but where do you have … Continue reading → Continue reading →