Just Simply Holly

When I got my new computer this past spring, I passed my old one down to my daughter. At that point, it was just a little more than three years old. Before I fully handed her the “reins” I did a complete reformat on it, basically giving her a brand new computer! It really was a good machine, it was running XP rather than Vista and hit had more than enough memory and a big enough hard drive for her to do pretty much anything she wanted to do.

I don’t know what it was that she was doing, but within a month tops, we had to turn around and do another complete reformat on it. Shortly after that reformat we discovered that she had uninstalled all of the anti virus and anti spyware programs we had put on it and had managed to pick up one heck of a trojan virus. It took him a while, but my hubby was able to remove the virus and get the computer up and running well again!

Sometime last week she started complaining that her computer would just shut down out of the middle of nowhere without any notice. There was no pattern to it doing this, it didn’t matter if she was surfing the web or playing one of her SIMS games, it would just shut down. Then, last Wednesday, it shut down and would not start back up for anything!

My hubby has been trying to work on it, he took the side of the case off and started cleaning the inside of it out, being careful not to disconnect any of the important wires or cables. But with how bad the indoor lighting is in the living room, it was really difficult for him to work on it. So he totally disconnected the tower and brought it out to the kitchen table, where the lighting is much better, and kept trying everything he could think of or tips he could find online.

He finally gave up and pulled the hard drive out of it and offered it for sale for parts on a local forum, along with several other computer “pieces and parts” that we had laying around here. A guy answered his ad offering a trade. He’d take the pieces and parts we had and give us a computer that was working! They emailed back and forth a few times and came to an agreement and hubby went and picked up a system for our daughter yesterday. He’s happy and she’s happy to finally have a computer of her own again…LOL!