But, when you get it to the shop, it's fine... nope

[susandennis]

When I killed my laptop, I thought very possibly, that I was just doing or not doing something really obvious. And, honestly, if my brother was not in the biz, I would have screwed around with it a lot longer. Actually, knowing he was there and ready probably enabled me to break it more better...

I knew that the minute it got to Texas, they would fire it up and it would work fine. Machines always screw with me that way. They would fire it up and and it would work and they would think 'what an idiot she is...'

They probably do think I'm an idiot but not that way. Whereas here, it booted up off a USB CD drive and asked me if I wanted to install Windows 7 (and then wouldn't let me), when it got there, it blue screened!! Isn't that the nicest thing? They think it's memory or mother board. Memory = good, mother board = that Lenovo U260 I've had my eye on...

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[saveferris.livejournal.com]

This same thing happened to my Dell desktop very nearly one year ago. In my case, the resident geek in our office (geek used in the best-possible sense, clearly) narrowed it down to a memory card.

Said Geek could not restore everything, but was able to get the thing to boot again sans suspect memory card.

At times like these, it's all about TGFC (Thank God For Carbonite)

[susandennis]

Actually, in my case, Mozy :)

For this laptop, however, it was time to wipe clean and start fresh but the laptop did not want to play along... And the more things I tried, the more it refused to cooperate. Until finally I reformatted the harddrive only not really... it skewered down pretty quickly from there...

TGFBIRB (Thank God For Brother in the Repair Biz!)

[brigitte lichtenberger-fenz (from livejournal.com)]

Recently the connection from my little camera to the computer for uploading photos died. Nothing worked. No new cord, not a different computer, not a laptop. Nothing. So I got a new camera for my birthday, but before I trashed the old one I tried it again, one last time. And... it worked! Perfectly.
PS: I hate stuff like this! ;-)