I have a t-shirt that says “No, I will not fix your computer.” It’s sorta a inside joke amongst us computer nerd types. Someone is always having a computer problem and turns to me or someone else knowledgable to fix it. “Oh Jeff, you’re so smart. You’ll be able to fix it.”
So one of my projects lately has been to upgrade a Compaq with more RAM and a newer OS. The Compaq is probably 2 or 3 years old. We’re using it to replace the one at church which runs the songs on the big screen. More RAM and a newer OS has brought new life to the system. Excellent. We were using 366mhz machines in the a/v portion at church. This one has to be at least a 800mhz, so it’s much better than what we had previously.
Upgraded Todd’s computer to Win2K yesterday. He seemed to be happy with it, although his modem doesn’t seem to work. No worries. He’s back at school with broadband connection, so modem difficulties are mute. The interesting thing is that the Compaq (as mentioned above) had less difficulties getting used to Win2K than Todd’s Dell. And I thought Compaqs were inferior machines (or so I’ve been told). Nope. Everything pretty much worked. Contrast that to the Dell, which I had to find a video driver for, and haven’t had an opportunity to find a modem driver for it.
Another project was to help a friend with her computer problem. Seems she’s been having trouble connecting to Walmart Connect. It tries to connect, but is forever “Talking to the Network,” and so on. Never actually gets to Walmartland. My initual suggestion was to drop Walmart Connect altogether and go for something more stable. But she’d like to stay with Wallyworld, if only for the $10/month unlimited. Still having figured out the problem. Could be the integrety of the phone line or the AOL protocol. I’m not sure.
Interesting thing about Walmart Connect. It’s actually some kinda of pseudo AOL type program. So AOLers are paying $20/month for unlimited, when you could get the same type service for $9/month.
I also have this other computer at home which doesn’t seem to have video capabilities. I put in another formatted hard drive, but somehow it might have shorted out the video leaving the computer useless. I’ve put in another hard drive and the same thing happens.