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ellarienSo this evening, I dig out various driver disks and go to boot up Diamond, and -- as far as I can tell -- the hard drive is as dead as a doornail, not even trying to spin up. To add insult to injury, my attempt to contact last night's tech support person fell foul of some mailserver problem at my ISP -- I hope the webmail one went through, but it's hard to be sure.
Sigh. This is doing nothing for my productivity, either at work or on the novel.
Update: Boot order problem. (This was bizarre. After leaving the box alone for a couple of hours, and unplugged, it booted up fine. Which was good, because it seems to need to get to a certain point before it understands the keyboard to get to the BIOS menus.) Fixed now, apparently, too late to sensibly do anything else with the thing tonight.
I have set up ... well, more computers than I care to count offhand, in the last twenty years or so. I have *never* had this much trouble, bar the 1993 Packard-Bell 386 that died the crunchy death about an hour after I started.
Edit, 1am: I don't know, I really don't. Finally, I managed to introduce the beast to my nice mouse and keyboard and the USB hub they plug into (only for some reason the scrollwheel isn't working on Thunderbird and Firefox, and I'm sure it was on the old machine), and the printer. The wireless, for some reason, is acting excruciatingly slow and flaky right now, even though it claims it has excellent signal and nobody else is having a problem ...
Sigh. This is doing nothing for my productivity, either at work or on the novel.
Update: Boot order problem. (This was bizarre. After leaving the box alone for a couple of hours, and unplugged, it booted up fine. Which was good, because it seems to need to get to a certain point before it understands the keyboard to get to the BIOS menus.) Fixed now, apparently, too late to sensibly do anything else with the thing tonight.
I have set up ... well, more computers than I care to count offhand, in the last twenty years or so. I have *never* had this much trouble, bar the 1993 Packard-Bell 386 that died the crunchy death about an hour after I started.
Edit, 1am: I don't know, I really don't. Finally, I managed to introduce the beast to my nice mouse and keyboard and the USB hub they plug into (only for some reason the scrollwheel isn't working on Thunderbird and Firefox, and I'm sure it was on the old machine), and the printer. The wireless, for some reason, is acting excruciatingly slow and flaky right now, even though it claims it has excellent signal and nobody else is having a problem ...
