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<sarcasm>oh joy</sarcasm> - 03:06 PM
(filed under 'general')
stupid computer. there's something terribly wrong with it. it currently takes twenty-five minutes to boot up, from pressing the 'on' button, to being ready for me to do anything on it. it began playing up yesterday evening when using windows explorer or internet explorer. i figured it just needed to be rebooted (which i hadn't done in a week or so), so after taking approximately five minutes to shut down, i let it boot while i went to have a shower. when i came back downstairs, it had only just finished booting.
i took it to work today, since there are lots of spare parts & things which i can put it into it to test which particular component might be playing up. shroom plugged it all in for me & it booted up fine. hmm. he did again just to make sure & again, no troubles at all. i really hate that.
so i brought it back home & plugged in the absolute minimum just as shroom did at work: power, mouse, keyboard, monitor. no good. i tried changing a few things one at a time: the power plug, the gpo it was plugged into, the mouse, the keyboard, the monitor. nothing made a difference. the only thing left to try here at home is to test it in a different gpo upstairs (since there's a possibility that it might run on a different circuit, although i doubt it). i won't do that until shroom comes home though, because carrying all the bits & pieces upstairs will not be good for me. if he helps me, then i can carry the lighter items.
if that's still no good, then i'll take it work again next time i go & see if it's still happy there. if it is, then it would seem that it's a power issue since that's the only thing that is different between here & work.
at least it's mostly working okay when it's on. let's just hope i don't need to reboot in a hurry anytime soon. the only other issue it's had, with explorer (windows or internet) is that it's a bit slow or hangs for a minute or so, but at least it comes good eventually.
hmmmmmmmmmmmmm .. 
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