Bad technology day - continues!

[tranglos]

Within a few hours of each other:

- two light bulbs went poof, kitchen and bedroom...

- my puter started freezing when the screensaver came in, and soon after that all I got was a garbled screen right from the boot-up time. After unplugging and reconnecting the displays the problem seems to have disappeared, but I suspect the electronics on the video card may be overheating or just getting flaky...

- my car broke down. Could be anything from a faulty spark plug, the fuel pump, some high-voltage wiring, some blackbox electronic part or spiked fuel, who knows. It's losing power, chugs like a Diesel, and the "check engine" light is on, and the bad thing is, I must wait til Monday before I can have it diagnosed.

There's an old Polish saying, "misfortunes come in pairs". I've had quadruplets already today, and it's certainly not my first bad technology day. Things tend to break down in batches, don't they?

[MilesAhead]

One thing I will say for the old points plugs and condenser.  Often if you had a screwdriver and a nail file you could take a pitted set of points, file 'em down, then set the dwell with a matchbook cover or by eye... and get it close enough to drive home to do it right.

With the black boxes there isn't much you can do unless you are in a fully equipped repair shop.  Kinda' takes the fun out of it too.  I used to be able to set the dwell one degree high with a feeler gauge.  That way as the high side on the bumper cam wore down, it worked its way into perfect.

You do get higher performance with the computers, when they are working.

[mouser]

Hang in there tranglos!

[tranglos]

Hang in there tranglos!

-mouser (November 21, 2009, 01:42 PM)

No new failures since that post

[Eóin]

Here a similar saying declares "Disasters comes in threes".

[Innuendo]

Here on DonationCoder a similar saying declares "Let's get out of here! tranglos is coming!" 

Seriously, I think we've all had days like that.

[MilesAhead]

Here on DonationCoder a similar saying declares "Let's get out of here! tranglos is coming!"  

Seriously, I think we've all had days like that.

-Innuendo (November 21, 2009, 05:38 PM)

If one or two more could be strung on you'd have a Buster Keaton movie(or at least an expression similar to his.  I hate it when it all hits the fan at once.)

[tranglos]

My bad technology day has turned to a week. The video card finally did die as I expected. Replaced it today (okay, at least now I can run Aero ;-) and while I was doing that, I thought it'd be a good idea to untangle and dust off all the cables at the back of the desk, since I had already unplugged a lot of things before opening the puter.

Boy did I pick a wrong day for untangling cables!

After everything was plugged back in, my D-Link network drive won't start. Must be an electrical failure, perhaps in the adapter, since not even the power LED comes on. So now I'm without an external backup, and if anything else should go wron

[f0dder]

and if anything else should go wron

-tranglos (November 24, 2009, 04:46 PM)

At least you still have your good sense of humor

[J-Mac]

Any chance that your electricity supplier is experiencing voltage variances lately? Brownouts?

Jim