Fix My Computer
By Ed. Filed in Business, Computers & Internet |
Computers are great when they are working. Not so great when they crash, lock up or refuse to turn on. Then I want to pull out my hair and grab a hammer to smash the offending desktop to bits. Back in October 2009 I turned on my HP desktop and got nothing – not even the blue screen of death. Turns out that the motherboard was “fried,” and I had to get a new computer.
The boss sent me a replacement computer, which was very generous for them to let me have a company paid computer at home. But it arrived last month with a lot of outdated and incompatible software and drivers. Not that I’m looking a gift horse in the mouth. I just mean that I had to do a
driver update for my monitor before I could see well enough to do the rest of the install, and then I had to find a few more drivers and updates to finish getting the new system set up.
At least I could get online and grab the drivers download from one online source, the site called driveraccess.com. That was a big help and saved me a lot of time.
I used the same site to get my printer driver files and to check for updates for other computer drivers that might be needed. All in all it took about an hour to completely install and update the replacement computer. I should be good to go for a while – let’s hope this desktop last longer than the last one.