And thats why I joined Tech-forums.net
Pure unadulterated truth. I actually joined because before, I would run my old Dell into the ground, I mean , when we first got the thing it was the sh**, an entire 512 of ram, a clock speed of 3.2, an 80GB hard drive?!?! Man, I was so excited.
I crashed it on occasion, as in, more then once a year, one time so bad my dad lost a lot of MP3's that you simply cannot download anywhere anymore. I tried at one point to fix it myself(this was back in the day, i knew nothing) and, specifically, I never realized that after so many reboots, windows xp will not work.
Another story specifically, since i'm learning a great deal about PC repair-points to big A+ exam guide- I would try my best to troubleshoot family pc's. Well, most of my family are types to buy a dell or hp for 400 bucks and they figure it's a really good deal.
Grandfather, old compaq, I mean old, 64mb's of ram, 500mb of space and 500mhz or so of processor speed 'old'. I tried my best to change the msconfig, but windows 98 would not cooperate, I said to myself,"hey, I can defrag the machine.", I get a call back later from my aunt who says the machine can't open internet explorer, given that my grandparents live in california, it's another 4hr drive back.
I troubleshoot the IE issue, I can't find a repair disk, and if i wanted to, I can't get online.
.....ARGGHHHHH. So, I just fixed one issue(booting faster, my god help that machine) for another, (can't get online, only god knows why). I thought 98 was dead and gone, how is such old technology showing up in 07?!