As I mentioned in my post yesterday, we finally decided to put a computer in our bedroom so we can finally use the huge flatscreen in there. So…… I spent yesterday evening wondering why the new computer went into super overdrive mode every single time I went through the first part of installing Microsoft Windows XP. It woud work like a charm right until it was time for the first restart. After that, it would just go through the system screens and then reboot….over and over and over….
As we went to bed I asked Tiffany if she would mind taking the box to the pc place and have them to look for what I was missing. It took a lot of courage for me to admit that I needed help actually – I felt like I had only tried a few things but in reality I did everything I could think off. So either I was too stupid to figure it out the BIOS or whatever (possible, especially since I have never built a computer from scratch before) or there was something wrong with the Hard Drive. I had this nagging feeling that even though I thought it vibrated it might not actually be running.
I digress yet again. Tiffany took last night’s nemesis for a ride to the computer store. The guys there turned out to be great. They popped the case open, booted it up and confirmed the diagnosis that I had hoped for. No, not that I am a moron that can’t put number crunchers together – but that the hard drive was broken. They switched it out for us at no charge, and didn’t even take money for the diagnosis. Hell yeah!
They did mess up just a bit though, because when I tried to install XP again the DVD drive didn’t work. Turns out they must have unhooked it and forgot to put the wires back in. But in all fairness, perhaps the cables came loose on the way home. Thankfuly I checked that first – after dealing with my initial disappointment. When I first started installing XP my hopes where low – I still couldn’t hear the hard drive (hey that’s good right, afterall the PC is going into the bedroom). Low and behold, yes the drive is super quiet! XP is running like a charm – and right after laying some network wire this weekend it will be movie time in the bedroom.
So, If any of you reading this are close to us – more explicitly Hanau – and are in need for a new computer go check out PC Profi. Great Prices, Great Service and if you pay them, they put the computer together for you 
. All kidding aside I am quite happy with them and it definitey won’t be the last PC I bought from them.
Oh, I did notice when I read through this post that I talked about laying pipe. Network wire, a bit archaic right? Yes, we do run WIFI on the laptops, but it still seems that for watching movies or doing any serious kind of work a cable based network is still much more reliable. Might be this old house messing with the WIFI I guess.
