[hewee]

You can buy books on making your own PC that are step bu step too.

Also there are from SmartComputing the Learning Series that has one on building your own PC.

http://smartcomputing.com/

[littlemar]

Since my job is to work on pc's, software and anything else that decides to die. I've been known to pull out my hair because as was mentioned earlier it's a machine and anything can happen. At work we use only Compaq which range from 133's to the newer models. As a result I know most of the quirks they have and believe me there are quirks. Computers, like cars can have lemons. I have an HP Presario at home but I'm planning on replacing it soon. The kid will get this one.

Building your own pc does take time and you can get the quality you want but it would be a busman's holiday for me and I don't want to build my own. This is just my opinion and for those that want to build - have fun.

[littlemar]

Smart Computing is a good source. Easy to understand for almost everyone.

[Dark Star]

littlemar,

Yes, good point! Whenever you are doing the 'puter' thing at work the last thing you wanna do when you get home is some more 'puter' work....been there done that and it does not leave one any room for a "life".

I can also relate as to how different brand 'puters' have their own quirks. I didn't know much whenever I first tried to screw around with an HP 386......learned quick though.

At one point about three years back when I thought I'd seen it all ( LOL....hehehe) I screwed around with an IBM Aptiva with voice recognition software. Oh the joy of "recovery disks".....
........from that experience I learned that there is no logic in trying to "re-invent the wheel"

Biggest lesson I learned there is that the manufacturers will often times "push out" the product to meet a deadline and often times with problems that they damn well know all about but just put it out there anyways.....
Silly me I actually thought I could fix the software voice recognition problems that IBM was having and they just agreed to send me one of every type of "recovery disk" that might be able to help solve the "unsolvable" voice recognition problems with their Aptivas.

I received no less than 20 "recovery disks" and other BS from them, and they stroked me long enogh to be sure that it was out of warranty whenever they said "Sorry 'bout that, we can't fix it either."
Talk to me about Aptivas, we can talk at length.

Okay all better now.

DS

[littlemar]

Dark Star

Wow, were you having a ranting moment???

The scary thing is that I completely understand about working with the "big companies" for help. I had to set up a pc with a touch screen for the volunteers at a hospital. Since most of them were in the 70's and 80's it had to almost run itself. Try telling that to the so called support dept. I did get it up and running and now I can tell you I'm considered a saint.

BTW: I firmly believe in doing an ERD whenever I upgrade these old timers. Of course then the user will always say that they didn't do anything it just died. Yeah, right and I was born yesterday.

Oh, oh, I just had a ranting moment!!!

Mary

[LadyLisa]

I do intend to get in there and build my own. I know I will gain a lot from the experience of it. I am a hands-on kinda girl and I love to learn new things.

I also realize that it is important to have someone show me how and guide me when I get stuck and I know I can always rely on the talent and experience I have found here at TSG

Dark Star and Randy

Thanks for the positive attitude and here's to learning new things.

[Dark Star]

littlemar,

Yes, I did....whoops I guess that happens to the best of us.

Oh yes, a touch screen whenever it works you are a saint and whenever it does not work they can call the "help desk" or as you say the "support department"

Last major corporation that I worked for had named the touch screen the "Angel" system they thought it was the best thing since pop top cans.
I really can't say that it was a bad thing, but they would come and get me whenever they had sat on hold for "way too long" with the Help Desk at the Corporate office.

It was always the same thing........ "when I touch and point here, the little arrow thingy is over there (an inch to the right) and when I want something at the right margin I can't get to it"

So I'd shut the station down wait 10 seconds re-boot and they were good to go for maybe another couple of hours a whole day if I was lucky..........There was no sence in showing anyone there how to re-boot because the employees were not allowed to turn off the computers.
.....and of course there was 14 of these "Angel" stations at each store and they had 145 stores in five states.

Of course the Help Desk would re-boot the particular computer in question remotely when the employees did get through to them.
They actually thought that was "the coolest"
"Okay stand back and don't touch anything they're fixing it now from Corporate"

No wonder they are going out of business as I type this.....Geeeez. Gotta laugh

DS

[SavvyLady]

its not funny, but... LMAO here!!!

Savvy

[littlemar]

Goes to show that all puters and monitors and whatever have their quirks and then there are the quirks working on them or is that quacks??? Anyway, we all just keep plugging away and go to sites that will help us with that problem that won't go away.

Mary

[deuce]

Just curious... what does LMAO mean? I can wager some good guesses but I wasn't sure...

[LadyLisa]

deuce_mn

it means 'laughing my a** off'

[deuce]

ok I got most of it... except for the "off" part... don't know why...

[deuce]

Now that I think about it (as I just read a post with it and attempted to do it again) I think I was sticking an "on" inbetween the L and M...

[LadyLisa]

LOL..............

Well here's a link to a few more....

[BML]

quite simply, it means LAUGH MY *** OFF.

and in case you ever hear ROFLMAO, that means
Rolling On the Floor Laughing My *** Off!!

Bruce