New Computer

The problems with my computer were sufficiently grave that I determined it was time to buy a new one, so I did.

Will try to suck the data off the old one and (if possible) get it repaired to use as a back-up, but I am now back up to speed blogging. (I even have a good chunk of this week’s entries written in advance.)

Am still getting my old programs installed on the new one and figuring out what it’s individual quirks are since it’s a different model than my previous one.

Spent more than an hour Saturday morning trying to figure out what the speakers that had been working the night before were no longer emitting sound.

Did all kinds of troubleshooting. Could see that the unit was trying to produce sound (sound programs were displaying graphical wave formations or otherwise behaving as if they were producing sound), the speakers just weren’t emitting any. All the software seemed to be working. It seemed like a mechanical device problem.

It was.

Turned out that the new computer has a rotating volume control on the front of the unit near the touchpad and my thumb had apparently set it to zero without me realizing it was there.

D’OH!

That’s an hour of my life I won’t get back.

Having a physical volume control on the front of the unit is a handy thing–IF YOU KNOW IT’S THERE.

Author: Jimmy Akin

Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."

5 thoughts on “New Computer”

  3. Oh the hours I have lost trying to figure out computer problems — I have that little dial myself and it does come in very handy — easy to turn the sound down if the phone rings etc. — Enjoy your new computer.

  4. A new computer definitely requires giving up on dippping your fingers in Holy Water fonts!!! Has anyone seen any studies on how many germs reside in these “flu-id vessels”?

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