Cant Blog, Wont Blog......

I think the weather must have been getting to my PC as well as most of the inhabitants of the British Isles, It decided to stop working this week and refused to even give me the friendly bleep when I switched it on.

I tried cajoling it, talking nicely to it and even giving it a friendly pat but all to no avail, the poor thing was dead. There was no alternative but to get the screwdriver out and perform major exploratory surgery.

After a struggle to extract the poorly machine from its case I was alarmed to see not only the complex electronic circuitry but also several years of accumulated dust and fluff, in fact enough to clog up the most robust of mechanical devices. I carefully got the paint brush out and dusted and blew as much of the muck out of its most delicate parts and began checking all the plugs and connections. A quick retest confirmed that it was still on the critical list so further drastic action was necessary.

Whilst fiddling with all the connections I noticed that the memory chips were a little loose, in fact how they stayed in was a miracle, for those not conversant with the inner workings of the PC the memory chips reside in slots in the main cuircuit board known affectionately as the mother board. They are held in securely with a clip at each end which fastens to a cut out on the chip board itself, It would seem that the chips were never put in properly in the first place, no wonder I have had such trouble with the machine of late. I firmly pushed the chips in, to an alarming crunching sound, secured then with the clips and crossed fingers, actually every part of me, and pressed the start button.

The machine sprang into life, gave the usual friendly bleep and continued to the all too familiar Welcome screen. Lazarus had come back to life!

Reconnecting all the other plugs, the case and then easing the PC back into its hole in the desk was no mean feat I can tell you but all seems well and I am able to communicate with the outside world and continue my blogging. What's more the machine is no longer clogged up with numerouse dead creatures, puppy fluff and years of neglect. Not a good day to start with but it got better, see there IS hope yet!

Have a nice day Y'all !