I got the Compaq Evo online...good/bad/weird

[orange]

My folks have some savings and Dad had some financial planning.

As for me, stamps is a question of when funds are added by the controlling bank that administers the funds electronically (EBT). Food stamps ulrimately are funded and administered by USDA. Now, is diasability gets here okay so will stamps most likely as they are priority item to the president and the Congress men who are working with him.

I only get $98 and no cash benefits are in my Oregon Trial EBT card. This really isn't enough to buy anytging for an entire month so I always use ~$120 of my SS money and then smal small visits to the two food banks I can use, as limited to twice a month and 12 times a year for the major, county bank, but still it's still all available to ne normally so I work with that.

Somebody offered me an SATA HDD earlier, didn't they?

I have a Dell Dimension 91900 that had a 160GB in it (GONE) and yes, I'm trying to get a 2.80 GB Pentium 4 in there and if it's all groovy it would make a killer media
computer...yes, I have oter SATA equipped noards,. If the offer is still out there. YES.

PS The computer guy is looking to see what that P4 would cost. The EVO isgood and ready to go when I get done with it. 60 feet of Cat 5 cable? I hop rhe breakage is in a spot I can salvage or if I need a router to add to the gateway in here? Funny but I never needed such a thing.

 

[orange]

I know I'm not typing well. Bedtime is soon. Breakfast with the club sandwich was wonderful!

 

[orange]

I passed the inspection and lost either a line or the jack in the livingroom so I was not wanted to crawl under the desk a second time and I decided to about kill myself rewiring the bedroom for the phones and the gateway.

Okay that worked FINALLY.

NOW, after grocery shopping a little and this, I'm going to sleep

That felt miserable.

Yes, Stuwee I can watch total crap in privacy, but I'm 1/2 dead.

Oh well, time to study my Extron 119 and put the Zenith Pro 880 to use.

Night.

 

[orange]

I got a Pentium 4 2.8 GHz 512 L2 400 FSB at a local computer shop for $5.33...

I have a Dell Dimension 9100 that had no CPU and uses an SATA hard drive (was a 160 GB). It actually has two drive slots and it would be cheaper to put the drive in than adapt because I was with my friend as he bought his,

Even it the Dell is a daisy-pusher I have other P4 boards, mainly Intel D845 based that go to 2.8 with P4 and 3.07 GB with Celerys and their lousy L2 caches.

I'll go buy some good phone lines and fix under the desk. It's not easy in the bedroom as the angles are odd and it's haphazard but I do have a good connection. The monitor's on a stray AAL speaker (kinda short) and tho Optimus T-100 is too tall.

That's what I end up calling roughing it.

Yep, a techno-wuss.

 

[speakerman1]

Good price for the Pentium. Did you get an OS yet?

Larry

 

[orange]

Not yet. I was out paying bills and buying food and underwear (actually great Christmas presents when you are out of the house and stop whining about socks). AND INSOLES. My shoes are New Balance walkers and the soles are still okay, not turned over, after just over 2 months and I needs the cushioning to make them last longer. Mom got them at the Boise store for about half price (around $40) and since they seem to be a little more durable then others they're worth the shot--for Mom.

By Monday, I think. USPS closes early on Saturdays (noon) and mail is delivered in the afternoon (meaning I go to pick it up on Monday if I miss the carrier and they don't drop it off without me by my order).

 

[speakerman1]

Well let me know I found the XP home edition I have yesterday. I'll send it with your things if you want it.

Larry

 

[orange]

CHAPTER IV 1/2 Another (yeah I know) Hew Hope.

I've gathered my strentgth, wits and a few unidentified this that fill of last week andput my computer back in the living room along with with the Evo and it's own monitor, ready to do battle.

I'm going out back to the shed in the night light and radio down low to sort through stuff some more first tonight. I'm ready to go on the Evo though.

 

[orange]

Meanwhile I took stuff off the chair and the laptop appeared. I hope to see the camera soon. AND the KVM switch, the other Jensen dome. Pam Dawber as Mindy. A new renaissance for Nesbitt's/Nehi and Crush.

 

[Web Police]

Nando, Nando. Ahh errrh I mean Nanu, Nanu.

 

[orange]

The Dell laptop Lee sent now has 512 mb of RAM. Cost, all of 10 dollars.

 

[orange]

I'm going to use my 2000 Pro disc before I install your OS, Jerry. I only fond it 3-4 times but i just put it in and realize that was it. Dang I'm nifty there.

 

[orange]

Just to be a total geek I am running the IDE DPS self testing on both drives.
Unless my head explodes and I see you on the DSOTM, I'll see you here later with the mind expanding resulf and other crap.

 

[orange]

And after a pregnant pause and embarassing moment when I had to use a chair on Steve Wilkos...

THE EVO IS UPDATING

Thank you Jerry

 

[orange]

I believe the video on the laptop is gonna stay dead (external monitor) and I can't get online with the Evo for some reason so I'm gonna need some help (PM sent Jerry) finishing finally.

The LCD seems to have herpes or something, don't play a computer doc on TV either.

 

[orange]

Whatever I said there.

I've got a crack or bacd trace somewhere...have to be careful,

 

[jbeckva]

What's the malfunction-junction there on the EVO not getting online? Have you tried the "basics"

1. Drop to a command prompt.. "ping www.yahoo.com"/whaddayaget? ...
2. "telnet www.yahoo.com 80"/you should get an immediate blank screen with no error message/whaddayaget??...

Or is it you use that to "connect" with and it's not "connecting"? Need more infoze from ya...

 

[Web Police]

If your viruses and spyware are updating themselves then obviously you have connectivity. Houston we have a problem. Maybe a banana peel in the modem?

 

[orange]

Okay, having somehow tackled some of the same stuff i went through gett the laptop on line (so far), having rolled back into late March, having gone through the XP updates slowly and skipping the Adobe reader X update...cleaning the cache as well. It went blank-the laptop that is and seemed to be working although the CD drive wouldn't open.

I thought it could be a virus or exploit but the computer did this at random for indeterminite lengths started me thinking and I decided to use System Restore.

So I'm here now. I also tried lifting the fan up to be free flowing but that's not conclusive.

Next...

 

[orange]

Oranges Computer Woes

Looks like it's going to skirt the Ida-nistas and cross the border.

Back to my EVO connection response