A Day In The Life.....
Feb. 17th, 2023 06:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
disneydream06My original laptop aged out a few years ago.
It finally stopped when I put a new router in the house and it wouldn't connect to the new router.
Prior to that I had bought a new laptop as backup/preperation.
Well, my second laptop is now on the fritz.
A couple of days ago when I went to put it to sleep, it suggested updates, so I let it update.
The next day when I went to put it to sleep it suggested updates again. I ignored that day and just put it to sleep.
Then the next it started freezing on me. Like if I was working in LJ, I would be writing an entry and the go to pick an icon pic and it would just stop working. I could move the cursor around, but nothing would work. I would force a close down and restart the computer. I would open things up and get things started and it would freeze again. And again. And again.
Thank heavens a couple of years ago, I bought another "backup" computer during a sale. Otherwise I would be out of commission lost to my friends. :o
I hope there is not anything seriously wrong with second laptop. I'm not looking forward to a big repair bill.
UGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It finally stopped when I put a new router in the house and it wouldn't connect to the new router.
Prior to that I had bought a new laptop as backup/preperation.
Well, my second laptop is now on the fritz.
A couple of days ago when I went to put it to sleep, it suggested updates, so I let it update.
The next day when I went to put it to sleep it suggested updates again. I ignored that day and just put it to sleep.
Then the next it started freezing on me. Like if I was working in LJ, I would be writing an entry and the go to pick an icon pic and it would just stop working. I could move the cursor around, but nothing would work. I would force a close down and restart the computer. I would open things up and get things started and it would freeze again. And again. And again.
Thank heavens a couple of years ago, I bought another "backup" computer during a sale. Otherwise I would be out of commission lost to my friends. :o
I hope there is not anything seriously wrong with second laptop. I'm not looking forward to a big repair bill.
UGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Date: 2023-02-18 05:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-02-21 12:47 am (UTC)KNOCK ON WOOD.
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Date: 2023-02-18 06:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-02-21 12:49 am (UTC)When I turned it on it looks like it had rebooted itself again.
Not sure if that knocked things back to "normal". :o
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Date: 2023-02-21 03:13 am (UTC)Yeah, you've definitely got a problem there. I'm leaning away from the hard drive, more likely memory or a motherboard problem. If the latter, new laptop time. If memory, that's usually replaceable, it will depend on how much you want to spend to keep it going.
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Date: 2023-02-21 07:09 am (UTC)Thank heavens I do have the "new" one already.
For now I will see how the old one does.
I really should get an external hard drive and do a quick copy of things.
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Date: 2023-02-21 01:42 pm (UTC)Depending on how much space you need, you can also sign up for a free Microsoft OneDrive account and copy it up into their cloud servers. A local copy - buying your own HD - gives you the advantage of speed (copies much faster) vs the possibility of the drive breaking, which is rare for new things. I'd suggest both, depending on how much info you need to copy.
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Date: 2023-02-21 03:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-02-24 04:51 am (UTC)It's easy. Go to https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/onedrive/online-cloud-storage. Create an account. You're running Windows 10 or 11, I'm fairly sure. Then you run the OneDrive app on your laptop - it's already there, baked in. The OneDrive account now appears as a disk drive, and it works just like one when you're connected to WiFi.
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Date: 2023-02-24 05:47 am (UTC)Thank you...