Yesterday I got a call from the techie place. The message was from the nice secretary, who said it had something to do with the motherboard, so right away I knew it wasn't going to be great news. But the nice secretary being not altogether tech savvy couldn't tell me much more. I tried to call them back, but their phone was busy, and seeing as it was already after 4:00 and they close at 5:00, I decided it was best to just speed on out there myself.
So apparently there is a problem with the motherboard ... probably. The combined efforts of that dude and the dude he consulted with could not determine that for certain. It could, he also said, just need a new battery. But he didn't know how much I was willing to put into the laptop, particularly since it might not work anyway. And it seems the answer is: not much. Yes, after all this I'm willing to let the laptop die, as inconvenient as that will be, and I'll tell you why.
While I was there the guy mentioned that his consultant could get everything off the laptop for me and put it on disks ... for no extra charge (despite how he worded that, it remains to be seen if I'm going to owe him anything at all, actually). And as my main concern has always been the information on the hard drive, that was pretty much exactly what I wanted to hear. This may be a situation made up out of lemons, but there's the lemonade right there.
But the latest information I have is that I won't be able to get those disks until next Wednesday (and that's prolly at the soonest). Silver lining notwithstanding, I'm really impatient to have my stuff home safe and sound.
It means, also, that for the time being I'll be doing the bulk of my writing on this computer, so some adjustment will need to be done.
Even so, there are things I can work on in the meantime, and I think tomorrow is going to be a long Borders day.
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