''CAROLE'' RE: way way way off topic - computer crisis O.T.

April 7, 2008

Carole,

So sorry to hear about your computer. When my 'blue screen of death' as they

called it came, I needed alot of things..one of them being a 'motherboard'?

Â (heck if i know what that is)...but it all cost me about 350.00 to fix..it

lasted about 15 months and then started to do it again..

when it finally did crash again, i said forget fixing it...i bought myself an

Apple laptop and love it..It was more than I wanted to spend ever but I did

anyways...I would ask Kirk for help...he said he would help me when i needed it

to try to fix my other one but i just have never gotten the time to even get

back to the old computer..now I try to back up my files so if that happens again

i am not totally screwed!..

I know what you mean about one step ahead and 2 behind....it just cost us 221.50

to put a battery in our '94 truck..DONT ASK! Â I am so mad about it! Â I think

in this past month we have spent almost 900.00 on it..and it still needs new

tires!!GRRRRRRRRRRRR..Take care

Diane..42

I don't know where to turn. We make our living on the computer at our house

and while I had a crummy old 386 computer, I made money off of it. I spent

about 10 hours typing a list of almost 400 music cassettes yesterday and this

morning I was going to list them, and I can't log on. I get a blue screen and

can't even load it on the safe mode. I know I need a new computer, but I

can't afford it. I'm going to ask my boss on Monday if I can get a loan on

future

pay but that I can't pay real fast. I just get further and further behind.

We owe almost a $1000 in back rent, and tons of other things.

I did nothing today, absolutely nothing. Fortunately we have another

computer, but Al does this full time and I have a hard time " working " on his

computer or at his work station (the couch and a laptop).

I just hate this, every time we get one step ahead, we get 2 steps behind!

And it does get hard.

Question: does anyone know how to get my files out of the old computer? I've

tried everything I can think of to start the computer and I can't get the

safe mode to open. Any ideas?

Carole in Hollywood FL

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