Hi George.
My local computer doctor has given up his shop so it may be a while
until I find another engineer.
What I did do George, was delete just about everything from the
computer and load all of my music collection. I was thinking of
giving the computer to my brother, who is also blind and who knows
nothing about computing. unfortunately , on boot-up, jaws is
announcing all the time that the system date is wrong and NOD 32 is
also trying to connect. I'm afraid that my brother could not cope
with this. I was hoping to get my computer to boot up to Win amp,
so all I'd need to do is help him with some keystrokes, so he could
at least listen to my music collection.
It's very much looking like that I'd need to get a batter
installed. The computer is just about dead on it's feet and to be
honest, a bill of £70 or more from an Engineer would simply be stupid.
So the computer is sitting in a corner, feeling very sorry for
itself and old misery guts, that's me, is back on my VISTA
computer, trying not to think about my dear old Packard B.
Best wishes.
Andy.
----- Original Message -----
From: "George Bell" <george@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, July 18, 2008 12:29 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Is my computer about to die?
Hi Andy,
If the system is working normally otherwise, then the
chances are that it is simply the motherboard battery which
has died. These are usually coin batteries, so you will have
to access the motherboard to find out what type it is.
It should not be expensive, but you may need some skilled
sighted help to remove and replace it.
George.
-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Andy Logue
Sent: 14 July 2008 20:14
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Is my computer about to die?
Hi all.
My old Packard Bell computer, which is about five years old,
keeps telling
me that the date and time is wrong. Despite going into the
settings and
fixing this, a couple of hours later, or the next day, it's
telling me the
same again. When I investigate, the date is 2003. Is this
a sign that the
old boy is about to quit?
Best wishes.
Andy.
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