Friday, August 07, 2009

Computer Age

I so may regret this, but the saga of the computer may be over. Trying to buy a new computer has been a nightmare. Well, not so much the buying, but the setting up. It all sounded so promising with an "A" list rating from PC Pro but instability bugged the first one to arrive. Sent back for a new motherboard they then decided that the hard drive was also faulty. When the computer arrived again then the hard drive was at an angle that would be called jaunty if referring to someones cap, but when referring to a hard drive could only be described as wrong. Given one more chance they took longer to build a brand new computer than expected, but as I was away it wasn't too much of a problem. New computer delivered, missing windows verification number and with some sound issues. However both those are now sorted and all barr one piece of software loaded. Everquest is taking ages to download, but I think that is Virgin Media capping me and I don't think I can blame the computer. In fact Everquest is taking so long to download that it seems to be going backwards. At 1800hrs it was supposed to take 3 hours to complete the download, it is now going to take five and a half hours. Maybe leaving the computer alone overnight will do it.

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