Emibub
PFG, Picture Framing God
Okay, I took very good advice and decided to go with the internal CD rewritable drive. I should have known better than to have tried it on my own. My sister has actually had her hands inside a computer before so we really thought with Tom's instructions and the instructions that came with it it would be cinchy. Ha!
We couldn't get the cover off. I unscrewed the back, it wouldn't come out. I then pryed off the face and lo and behold there were wires connected to the on/off button that were connected to the computer.
This took about an hour.
My frustration was obvious, even called Tom, where were you you little #%&*#$&. I decided to just go buy a new computer. The one I have at home is toast(my one bad Ebay experience). The one here in the store is so overloaded with graphics and various things I have downloaded that it just freezes up all the time. That was the point of the CD Rewritable Drive. I was only planning on buying a tower, but when we got there the packages were priced better with rebates etc. They also had a $200 rebate if you signed up with MSN for 2 years. So I got a brand new HP pavilion 513n. 1.8 GHz 256MB(imagine the graphics I can load on this baby)60GB. It also has a DVD/CD-Rw Combo Drive. Which eliminates the need to install the other one.
Here is my problem: We tried to rehook up the old computer and apparently I have damaged the on off switch. I finally figured out how to get the back off, it was hooked on by the feet. The wire dealys are no longer hooked on to anything, so now I get to drive out to a friends house and hope he can reattach whatever I unattached. Did I do a back up of Frameready? No. Do I have any way of taking orders on Monday? No. I don't even have a print out of my sales for the month. Everything I have done for the year is on that hard drive. The way this is going I will probably have to pay a fortune to get it fixed.
So let's see now, I have the following: One external CD drive, one internal CD drive, one extra brand new computer that I laid out $1,000 for although I am getting $400 back in rebates and my sister has given me $300 for Christmas and Birthday so I guess I am out only $300. I also have a non functioning computer that contains my whole life from the past four years. I also have a piece of garbage computer at home plus I now have Compuserve, AOL and MSN accounts. Plus it is windows XP, and contrary to popular belief it is taking some getting used to.
Are you guys absolutely sure the internal drive was the way to go?
I should qualify that question as being tongue in cheek, I know my limitations and I get very frustrated with the basics, so taking the back off a computer was and is way out of my league. I can only imagine what I would have done if I had actually gotten the back off and had proceeded.
We couldn't get the cover off. I unscrewed the back, it wouldn't come out. I then pryed off the face and lo and behold there were wires connected to the on/off button that were connected to the computer.

My frustration was obvious, even called Tom, where were you you little #%&*#$&. I decided to just go buy a new computer. The one I have at home is toast(my one bad Ebay experience). The one here in the store is so overloaded with graphics and various things I have downloaded that it just freezes up all the time. That was the point of the CD Rewritable Drive. I was only planning on buying a tower, but when we got there the packages were priced better with rebates etc. They also had a $200 rebate if you signed up with MSN for 2 years. So I got a brand new HP pavilion 513n. 1.8 GHz 256MB(imagine the graphics I can load on this baby)60GB. It also has a DVD/CD-Rw Combo Drive. Which eliminates the need to install the other one.
Here is my problem: We tried to rehook up the old computer and apparently I have damaged the on off switch. I finally figured out how to get the back off, it was hooked on by the feet. The wire dealys are no longer hooked on to anything, so now I get to drive out to a friends house and hope he can reattach whatever I unattached. Did I do a back up of Frameready? No. Do I have any way of taking orders on Monday? No. I don't even have a print out of my sales for the month. Everything I have done for the year is on that hard drive. The way this is going I will probably have to pay a fortune to get it fixed.
So let's see now, I have the following: One external CD drive, one internal CD drive, one extra brand new computer that I laid out $1,000 for although I am getting $400 back in rebates and my sister has given me $300 for Christmas and Birthday so I guess I am out only $300. I also have a non functioning computer that contains my whole life from the past four years. I also have a piece of garbage computer at home plus I now have Compuserve, AOL and MSN accounts. Plus it is windows XP, and contrary to popular belief it is taking some getting used to.
Are you guys absolutely sure the internal drive was the way to go?
I should qualify that question as being tongue in cheek, I know my limitations and I get very frustrated with the basics, so taking the back off a computer was and is way out of my league. I can only imagine what I would have done if I had actually gotten the back off and had proceeded.
