Yeah I already gave up on that one-blog-a-day thing. :/ I suck. Oh well.
Today was pretty crappy. I woke up and rolled over to turn on my computers. I've gotten back into using my laptop + external monitor setup recently and since it won't recognize that it has a wifi adapter, I have to share the internet connection from my netbook. Annoying... but it gets the job done. This morning, however? LOL NOPE.
My laptop starts up and about 15 seconds later, it reboots itself. Repeatedly. It'll keep doing that until I hold down the power button to stop it. And the display doesn't work--nothing shows up on the screen whether it's the primary display or an external one. :/ I contacted HP and they gave me a few things to try, one of which was to take out the RAM and remount it.
Sooo I got up, dressed, and headed out. Stopped at Zeller's when I got to the mall hoping they'd have a screwdriver (I don't have one of my own which is why I was out, lol) and while I didn't find one, I did find the Jakks Pichu figure. Omg so cute. ;w; So I bought that and walked up to Home Depot. Someone there helped me figure out what I needed and then I came home. Unfortunately it was all for pretty much nothing since that didn't work. XD; HP has decided it's my motherboard.
I don't really want to spend ~$200 fixing my laptop since diagnosing the actual problem (I don't trust HP) and then repairing it could be pricey. It just wouldn't make sense to pay that much when a new computer isn't too much more. :( I called my parents and asked for advice and we're trying to decide what to do. I don't *NEED* a full computer but it makes things a LOT easier because there's only so much I can do on my netbook with only 1GB ram and a resolution of 1024*600. I'd love to get another decent-sized notebook so I can continue to dual-screen but anything I want is well out of my price range so we're looking at desktops now. This is just... really annoying, because I don't have money much to work with (I don't want my parents paying all of this) and I WAS hoping to save up somewhat for a new DS since mine is dying. ;_; *sigh*
But lol yeah HP made me cry again. :'( Haaaaaaaate it so much. (Honestly how hard can it be to send a box internationally?? Why should the CUSTOMER have to be the one jumping through hoops?) Oh, and sorry to the people I was probably mean to today. Dealing with HP always puts me in an AWFUL mood so I was pretty snippy and unattentive to anyone who popped up on MSN. u_u
*sigh* Well, I got NOTHING done that I'd wanted to get done today. May as well go to bed and try again tomorrow.