Thursday, March 09, 2006
Ghost in the Machine
All the hoopla about getting the net at home, well, it turned out to be short-lived. Reached home yesterday evening, aftr a hard day at work, and switched on the computer....
But it refused to turn on.... :-(
Unplugged and replugged the entire apparatus..
still no luck...
Panic.. what happened.. why ....
Call A. Ask him if it worked in the morning when he used it. Answer : NO.
But it worked at seven when i used it before leaving for work. It did have a problem shutting down, but R took care of that... ;-)
A suggests I open it up and have a look...
Now I, although an engineer, am a novice when it comes to internals of computers. So I call up R, and ask him how good he is with this stuff. He claims full proficiency, having done stuff to his comp back in his college days.
R reaches home, and opens up the PC. He gives the novice a guided tour.
This is the CPU, this is the heat sink, this is the fan.. This is the RAM. Expletives... oh crap.. the RAM is in the wrong way!!!!! How the @#!$ can the comp work with the RAM in the wrong way. Its not possible! But it worked in the morning. And then it did not work at 11 when A wanted to use it. How did the RAM get in the wrong way? Frightening stuff!!
We replace the RAM the right way around, and then switch on the comp. It boots!! Yipee....
But wait.. the monitor is not detecting it! Shit.. neither is the keyboard! Frantically we press CAPS LOCK, NUM LOCK, SCROLL LOCK, to see the LEDs glow. No luck!
:-(
But now we have bigger problems on our hands...How did the RAM invert? It cant possibly just hop to it and say "now I wanna see how it feels in this direction." Evrything else at home seems in place. No locks broken, no missing gadgetry...
Whats going on? How can or did this happen?
Even with our eye constantly watching?!
But it refused to turn on.... :-(
Unplugged and replugged the entire apparatus..
still no luck...
Panic.. what happened.. why ....
Call A. Ask him if it worked in the morning when he used it. Answer : NO.
But it worked at seven when i used it before leaving for work. It did have a problem shutting down, but R took care of that... ;-)
A suggests I open it up and have a look...
Now I, although an engineer, am a novice when it comes to internals of computers. So I call up R, and ask him how good he is with this stuff. He claims full proficiency, having done stuff to his comp back in his college days.
R reaches home, and opens up the PC. He gives the novice a guided tour.
This is the CPU, this is the heat sink, this is the fan.. This is the RAM. Expletives... oh crap.. the RAM is in the wrong way!!!!! How the @#!$ can the comp work with the RAM in the wrong way. Its not possible! But it worked in the morning. And then it did not work at 11 when A wanted to use it. How did the RAM get in the wrong way? Frightening stuff!!
We replace the RAM the right way around, and then switch on the comp. It boots!! Yipee....
But wait.. the monitor is not detecting it! Shit.. neither is the keyboard! Frantically we press CAPS LOCK, NUM LOCK, SCROLL LOCK, to see the LEDs glow. No luck!
:-(
But now we have bigger problems on our hands...How did the RAM invert? It cant possibly just hop to it and say "now I wanna see how it feels in this direction." Evrything else at home seems in place. No locks broken, no missing gadgetry...
Whats going on? How can or did this happen?
Even with our eye constantly watching?!
posted by zoxcleb @ 19:30 
