Hi all
I'd like to thank you for your advice and comments, we've had some ups and
downs but for most of it I'm a lot more wiser and knowledgeable for it
thanks to your time and free advice. I've said it before and I'll say it
again, "Aren't newsgroups a wonderful thing" I started out as many do
knowing nothing about how a PC runs, form the simplest questions as "how do
I change my display size on my screen" to "add hardware and reformat...etc
etc" and all without the intervention of a night... college or university, I
now know and have learnt all that from the humble NG's.
And it's all down to ordinary people, whether it be the bank manager asking
the housewife how long to boil an egg, to the housewife asking how does one
go about getting a mortgage, both valid information, one being no more valid
than the other, other than the latter having more input to be qualified to
reply
)
If a 5 year old can recite all the states in America you may think he/she
may be a genius in the making, and on the other hand if another child can
systematically recite 26 letters in order (abc) or 50 numbers then it's not
so impressive, ("it's the same thing.") I believe the majority learn the
latter as standard, but because only the few would be learnt the first, we
assume a cleverer mind, but his/her older brother may need to know that
information for a school test one day and gladly share it, so it was useful
after all.
So I'm still going to buy a 3.5 digit multimeter and perform the tests
provided because that's another small skill I'll have learnt even though the
PS may still give a good reading or it may but in a minute show a total
failure, but most of all it's a useful tool even for the simplest of jobs,
and after all's said and done you'll all probably want to strangle me!!...
Because even though I've had the machine for approx ten years without any of
the major pre installed hardware fail,(with the exception of a few DVD/RW
and upgrading to more and bigger HDD's)
I do have a laptop too, and at this point in time I'm on another machine to
which I've added my 300gb storage HDD. In all honesty my problem machine
will be retired to the kids to play games and study on, but that doesn't
stop me from wanting to learn how to fault find because that's another
string to my bow as I said I started out knowing nothing about how a PC
works or gardening/building/plumbing/local government/pet bird care/ how to
boil an egg, and I've learnt all this thanks to the wonderful people who
share knowledge through NG's.
And here's the killer...I do have £2000 for the next generation
machine...Hopefully in another ten years you'll still be helping me keep it
in tip top condition and I may be useful to someone else for the knowledge
I've been taught.
Apologies to posters who may have thought it was too much time wasted on
the subject.
Watch this space ;-))
