PC Problems :(

Zeta · Post by **Zeta** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 10:13 pm

OK, now I think I'd kill for some DSL.

I finally got this shitty old call-catcher from Emerson that seems to work.

However, my PC's started to make beeping noises. The PC itself, mind you, not the external speakers.

Supposedly, for my PC, that means that my DRAM is failing. HOWEVER - it's only done this since I've been connecting or trying to connect a switchboard to it's modem. And I'm not entirely sure it's the modem that's beeping. It's been doing it a lot more since I got rid of the new AT&T crappy Caller ID/Internet Call Alert that doesn't work, and replaced it with the old switchboard. Before it would only do it once every couple of hours. Now it's doing it about once every ten minutes.

I'm not sure if it's a virus, failing RAM, failing motherboard, or if it has something to do with the switchboards. I just started to really notice it tonight, but I remember it doing this ever since I started to try to fix up my phone lines so that I could actually know when someone is trying to get in touch with me, so that going online for a couple of hours doesn't mean shutting myself off from the rest of the world for a week.

Anyway's, I'm going through all this shit in the hopes that people will eventually - you know. Want to call me. Fat chance, I guess.

In short, my computer may be broke. Or in the process of breaking. But either way - I NEED DSL. Backwater piss-ant technophobic homonuculoids. Update your technology dammit, so that I can actually have a social life AND go online and not have to worry about self-destructing motherboards.

I'll problably take my computer in to get upgraded this week. I'll use my Mom's laptop as a loaner. I need a new motherboard and RAM, problably. I'll want a bigger hard-drive, too. I'm at least going to get it upgraded to level where I can play the Sims 2.

I hope I can afford it. But it's something I've been putting off for three years. Now that I don't have to worry about the surge of gay porn I own, I don't have a problem with finally doing it.

Post by **Segaholic2** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 10:19 pm

Good luck with the new computer. Sounds like you need it.

EDIT: Actually, yeah. You want to upgrade your old one? You should at least find out how much that will cost first, and compare that to how much a completely brand-new computer would cost you. It might not be so big of a difference.

Zeta · Post by **Zeta** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 10:30 pm

It's not the phone, by the way. I disconected it and it still beeped. So the motherboard or the RAM is definately dying.

As for getting a new one = that's true. But there's not exactly any places to buy one around here - aside from Wal*Mart. And I don't want a computer from THEM. And I don't want to order one. I might be more convient just to get this one upgraded. Especially since I want to keep Windows 98 on it, because XP is unecessary and expensive. Any any new machine I get'll problably have XP on it automatically.

Zeta · Post by **Zeta** » Wed Mar 09, 2005 12:13 am

I am a collossal idiot.

It turns out that a loaned cell-phone on low battery sounds just like faulty DRAM.

How 'bout that.

So, no upgrade. Since I wouldn't have been able to afford it in anything but the utmost emergency right now.