| My Computer has Alzheimer's |
Over the last several weeks I have being doing battle with my computer. It pointed at driver problems. It also showed up with major problems with FireFox. Many times when shutting down I would get a blue screen. Well over this weekend it was blue screening in the middle of me using it. I was really starting to hate my computer.
Well I had seen some problems at work lately and when I researched that I saw there was a simple memory test program from Microsoft. So yesterday I downloaded the image. I also had to download a program (Nero 7) to allow me to created a bootable CD from an imagine.
Start the test
FAILED
FAILED
FAILED
FAILED
FEILED
FAILED
It failed ever test. OK, time to get deeper into the problem.
I tested each memory dimm one at a time.
SUCCESFULL
SUCCESFULL
SUCCESFULL
SUCCESFULL
SUCCESFULL
SUCCESFULL
Cool. DIMM 2 also passed with flying colors. DIMM 3 failed all tests and DIMM 4 passed all tests.
So I pulled the 1 gig DIM and so far my machine has been running well ever since. We will see if this really was all it was. I hope so. I really need to be able to count on this old gall here.
Over the weekend I have been working on processing some pictures I took, 174 in all. That and I created a few slides to enhace everything. So I used some programs I have never used before. I got better at other programs. And I also learned there are some things I am lacking in. All in all I used
Adobe Bridge
Adobe Photoshop CS2
Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0
Adobe Reader 7
Corel Photo Album 6
Epson Print CD
Nero 7
Nova Scrapbook Factory Deluxe
Open Office 2.1
The thing that I feel is still lacking, being able to put together a decent page. I put together something about each of the conductors, 1 page for each. I wanted to be able to have a background image. I am so wanted to put a picture on it and to be able to wrap the text around the picture.
Turns out wrapping the text was the killer. Only Open Office allowed the wrapping of text I wanted but I had a hard time getting the background image the way I wanted. Once I got something going in Office I had to figure out how I was going to be able to take the page and save it as JPEG. I believe what I did was export to PDF and then saved the page out to JPEG from there. What a mess and I still did not get what I wanted. I ended up using the scrapbook program but it would not wrap text. I had to fudge it.
Photo Album 6 was cool for what I used it for. Elements, I probably could have done everything in CS2 but I am a little more used to Elements at this point. Photoshop CS2 is wonderful. I touched each and every picture I took with it fixing the color and the sharpness. I got so much better as I went. I am not sure I did as good as I should have but I learned a lot and learned how to get much faster at it. Thank goodness since it is nothing for me to take 200 to 300 pictures at one event.
Now if only I could find something that could do a nice page layout and produce a JPEG or TIFF file or something that I could put onto a CD.
Oh by the way, for one reason or another no Rodeo for me over the weekend.
P.S. I just discovered something. When I typed this outside of Blogger and then pasted it into blogger all my sentences ran together. Now I see what everyone is talking about. So I tried something. I clicked the Edit HTML tab and then I pasted into the window. Then I clicked the Compose tab. Guess what... it so worked. So if you are running into this try the Edit HTML tab and see if it works for you. Good luck.
Hmm... You have bad memory. --C.R.A.Z.Y.
Well I had seen some problems at work lately and when I researched that I saw there was a simple memory test program from Microsoft. So yesterday I downloaded the image. I also had to download a program (Nero 7) to allow me to created a bootable CD from an imagine.
Start the test
FAILED
FAILED
FAILED
FAILED
FEILED
FAILED
It failed ever test. OK, time to get deeper into the problem.
I tested each memory dimm one at a time.
SUCCESFULL
SUCCESFULL
SUCCESFULL
SUCCESFULL
SUCCESFULL
SUCCESFULL
Cool. DIMM 2 also passed with flying colors. DIMM 3 failed all tests and DIMM 4 passed all tests.
So I pulled the 1 gig DIM and so far my machine has been running well ever since. We will see if this really was all it was. I hope so. I really need to be able to count on this old gall here.
Over the weekend I have been working on processing some pictures I took, 174 in all. That and I created a few slides to enhace everything. So I used some programs I have never used before. I got better at other programs. And I also learned there are some things I am lacking in. All in all I used
Adobe Bridge
Adobe Photoshop CS2
Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0
Adobe Reader 7
Corel Photo Album 6
Epson Print CD
Nero 7
Nova Scrapbook Factory Deluxe
Open Office 2.1
The thing that I feel is still lacking, being able to put together a decent page. I put together something about each of the conductors, 1 page for each. I wanted to be able to have a background image. I am so wanted to put a picture on it and to be able to wrap the text around the picture.
Turns out wrapping the text was the killer. Only Open Office allowed the wrapping of text I wanted but I had a hard time getting the background image the way I wanted. Once I got something going in Office I had to figure out how I was going to be able to take the page and save it as JPEG. I believe what I did was export to PDF and then saved the page out to JPEG from there. What a mess and I still did not get what I wanted. I ended up using the scrapbook program but it would not wrap text. I had to fudge it.
Photo Album 6 was cool for what I used it for. Elements, I probably could have done everything in CS2 but I am a little more used to Elements at this point. Photoshop CS2 is wonderful. I touched each and every picture I took with it fixing the color and the sharpness. I got so much better as I went. I am not sure I did as good as I should have but I learned a lot and learned how to get much faster at it. Thank goodness since it is nothing for me to take 200 to 300 pictures at one event.
Now if only I could find something that could do a nice page layout and produce a JPEG or TIFF file or something that I could put onto a CD.
Oh by the way, for one reason or another no Rodeo for me over the weekend.
P.S. I just discovered something. When I typed this outside of Blogger and then pasted it into blogger all my sentences ran together. Now I see what everyone is talking about. So I tried something. I clicked the Edit HTML tab and then I pasted into the window. Then I clicked the Compose tab. Guess what... it so worked. So if you are running into this try the Edit HTML tab and see if it works for you. Good luck.
Hmm... You have bad memory. --C.R.A.Z.Y.
Posted by barman at 2:01 AM::
this all sounds like greek to me but it sounds like you're well on your way to figuring out this stuff.
I've had the opposite happen to me, when I copy/paste from my compose page and save it to word the words all run together.
tc
too techy for me this morning, but cool for you I'm sure since it sounds like you've figured out a problem you've been having....computers are supposed to make our lives easier, not complicate them!!
too techy for me this morning, but cool for you I'm sure since it sounds like you've figured out a problem you've been having....computers are supposed to make our lives easier, not complicate them!!
TC and Jan I promise to be much lighter tomorrow and maybe even something of intrest to talk about on Thursday. I will get better, promise.
?????????? lol
Yeah it took my hubby forever to fix mine but Im back up and running to full capisity(sp) of a normal computer! It doesnt shut off on me when Im working, I dont get a blue screen any more and all those annoying pop-ups are gone espicially the one thats says Im low on disk space! happy dance happy dance!
Yea me. I wrote a nice letter to the people I bought the memory from to see if anything could be done and they are exchanging it for me. That is wonderful. I will probably save myself $80 at least. Yea me.
Opps, missed you somehow Gab. Does happy dance with gab until I get my two left feet tangled and fall down.
This sounds too much like work to me. Computers supposed to be for fun and porn. Wait, that's the same thing, right? ;-)
I am with you all the way Tony. Bring on the fun. Of course I had to have a working computer for that... :( But it is working now... :)
Now I'm curious about the pictures. When you decide which program you like best, I'll have to invest in it.
Sign I sent you an email. They all did different things but what I used most was Adobe Photoshop CS2. I also used it's little brother, Adobe Photoshop Element's a little but if I did not have CS2 than I would have used this program a lot. Or I could have just taken better pictures I suppose.
I haven't tried posting a word doc. like I used to since signing on with new blogger.
All my recent post's have been directly on blogger itself.
When I post a pic using HTML, all that posts is gobbly goop. HTML is only working for me without pics.
Any suggestions?
BTW, You know how I walk away and forget I am IMing with someone? Well, tonight I walked away before finishing my comment. No shit. I started to comment, went out front to do a good deed, (helping a stranger get off the ice) and forgot I was commenting on my own blog. Jeez! Maybe I am getting the Alzheimers disease.
Manny, I know there are times when it works and times when it scrunches up. I do not know what makes it work right. I will see if I can figure it out. If I do I will let you know.
Thanks babe. you rock!
What in the HELL are you talking about?
g-man... no body knows. I think I was possessed or something. Lets just say my 'puter feels better and my pictures are in the mail. There, much better.
We invested in Elements months ago and I still haven't used it.
I may need you to come over and give me some help. :)
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