Well, regardless, our 8890 are monolithic pavers anyway, right? We all have this ingrained into our thoughts, especially when we are carrying it back and forth, place to place. The beauty of it is to dock it on a certain desk and leave it there for as long as physically possible (or when people start to complain to remove that "vacuum cleaner" of a laptop.) I'm not kidding, I was talking about cleaning my fans to one of the Tech Stop people at my work, and he was joking about whether i was referring to that loud vacuum upstairs... and this is fitting, due to that amount of dust and bunnies that it sucks up over not too long a time!
So, I borrowed his screwdriver and commenced with my usual vent cleaning, reapplying AS5 process and the whole shebang, only to realize that I'd forgot my AS and q-tips at home. So, while grabbing this stuff, I also grab my own screwdriver, which I have also used for years to take apart and put together my 8890. This has a magnetic end to it, which I was at one point sure what caused my dramatic evening of not getting any work done. I was never at any point concerned about my hard drive. Information can usually be recovered, and all the important data (ie my design portfolio i had been working on for a few weeks) was backed up on multiple units.
After a thorough cleaning and reapplication of AS5 and finally the reassembly, one of the screws fell into my laptop, and I thought, "well, thats what this screwdriver is for" and so I attracted it back to the surface again, and closed up the unit. I'm sure many of you know whether or not magnetic screwdrivers are recommended to work on computers, but I was convinced after what happened next, that they were the worst thing in the world! Turning on the computer resulted in a light clicking sound, the lights turned on, but nothing loaded. What is going on here? Turn off, ok that worked, but rebooting the thing resulted AGAIN in this sound I can only describe as soft yet powerful enough to be heard across the office. My laptop was a brick. I sat there and pondered all the times I had with my computer, and how it almost lasted a complete 4 years (an accomplishment for such a fragile computer). My friends gave me their sympathy, but nothing would top what happened the next day.
I get to work, and I am talking with the Tech Stop technician, asking whether I could test out a different Pentium 4 chip and see if it was going to fix the problem. I was willing to try any thing, including throwing it out the window. But he's like nooo, try this instead: Take the battery out (and if you have ever worked on computers, to always, ALWAYS take the battery out before dealing with parts as precious as processors and the small electronic currents that run through the motherboard, etc.) And then to just hold down the power button for 10 seconds... Well, I didn't know this trick. To me my 8890 was a brick, but after holding the power button down for 10 seconds, without a battery, and finally plugging the machine into its power cord, the damn thing turned on again! I know now about this little trick that basically resets some firmware inside the machine. Well, I know I've left some of you in suspense until now, but I've been looking for a chance to write something like this for a week and a half now.
So all is well, my 8890 is back in running order, and all my information as well. It even made a business trip out to California and back recently! Ok, now pay close attn to my sig, as it describes pretty well what's going on with my Krystal!
So, I borrowed his screwdriver and commenced with my usual vent cleaning, reapplying AS5 process and the whole shebang, only to realize that I'd forgot my AS and q-tips at home. So, while grabbing this stuff, I also grab my own screwdriver, which I have also used for years to take apart and put together my 8890. This has a magnetic end to it, which I was at one point sure what caused my dramatic evening of not getting any work done. I was never at any point concerned about my hard drive. Information can usually be recovered, and all the important data (ie my design portfolio i had been working on for a few weeks) was backed up on multiple units.
After a thorough cleaning and reapplication of AS5 and finally the reassembly, one of the screws fell into my laptop, and I thought, "well, thats what this screwdriver is for" and so I attracted it back to the surface again, and closed up the unit. I'm sure many of you know whether or not magnetic screwdrivers are recommended to work on computers, but I was convinced after what happened next, that they were the worst thing in the world! Turning on the computer resulted in a light clicking sound, the lights turned on, but nothing loaded. What is going on here? Turn off, ok that worked, but rebooting the thing resulted AGAIN in this sound I can only describe as soft yet powerful enough to be heard across the office. My laptop was a brick. I sat there and pondered all the times I had with my computer, and how it almost lasted a complete 4 years (an accomplishment for such a fragile computer). My friends gave me their sympathy, but nothing would top what happened the next day.
I get to work, and I am talking with the Tech Stop technician, asking whether I could test out a different Pentium 4 chip and see if it was going to fix the problem. I was willing to try any thing, including throwing it out the window. But he's like nooo, try this instead: Take the battery out (and if you have ever worked on computers, to always, ALWAYS take the battery out before dealing with parts as precious as processors and the small electronic currents that run through the motherboard, etc.) And then to just hold down the power button for 10 seconds... Well, I didn't know this trick. To me my 8890 was a brick, but after holding the power button down for 10 seconds, without a battery, and finally plugging the machine into its power cord, the damn thing turned on again! I know now about this little trick that basically resets some firmware inside the machine. Well, I know I've left some of you in suspense until now, but I've been looking for a chance to write something like this for a week and a half now.
So all is well, my 8890 is back in running order, and all my information as well. It even made a business trip out to California and back recently! Ok, now pay close attn to my sig, as it describes pretty well what's going on with my Krystal!
