Bit of Ivory

Because my dad is currently putting Ginny back together. Those of you at Wahleecon will remember that her lid is VERY noisy when I open and close it. We tried to figure out why tonight. Took the poor notebook to pieces. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to be a problem we can fix. The hinges are so tight, you can’t even move them with your fingers. The only way I’ve been getting the lid open and closed is because of the leverage of the screen. In fact, the torque is so great that the flange which connects the right-side hinge to the chassis completely snapped off because of the pressure. And we can see absolutely no way to adjust the tension. If I keep using it like this, it’ll just break worse. Plus I could never use it in the library. It would drive everyone around me crazy. The warranty ran out in April (of course), so my dad’s going to call Best Buy and see what our options are. Last time we sent one of our laptops back to them for repairs, they lost it. So we’re not too keen to do it again (even though all our prior experiences have been fine). Hopefully what they can do is send a new case and Dad can do the work. It would be cheaper, methinks.

Anyway, I was going to post my write-up of the Pre-party Party and the first day of Wahleecon, but it’s on Ginny. So that’ll have to wait until tomorrow. Hmph.

And Harry’s going downhill, too. The soundcard hasn’t worked for months, and it’s starting to crash. I probably need to do a complete reinstall– the poor computer has so much junk on it from my undergrad days. If I do that, though, I’d like to put XP on it (it’s running on 2000 now). Might as well if I’m going to do all that work. Then I can start with a shiny new system for my post-grad.

Ah, computers. Don’t we just love them?