Tag: computer

After I posted the entry below and I’d been typing for about an hour on Word, the window “Find and Replace” kept popping out, so I closed all windows. Then it happened again. All the icons were tumbling and somersaulting and swirling, if you can’t picture that in your head, it’s the live electronic, video version of Van Gogh’s Starry Night. The Geeks yesterday explained to me that the computer keeps “refreshing” itself. Maybe not vivid enough for you, if I were to describe it to you , it’s like the refresh button is being pressed by an unseen hand and it’s being clicked at the speed of a hundred thousand times per second such that the icons on the screen are somersaulting and swirling in place . Definitely not a human hand. Unseen hand nga eh! (ayan, naiinis na ko, that’s my alarm).

I think it’s grounded.

The computer doctor showed me I could still work on F1 mode. Press F1 then click the program, then it boots. So he said maybe it’s software, the OS (operating system); so i could just replace my OS with a lower version. (i don’t want to replace it, it’s original;  so he said I could save the hard disk and get another hard disk and put the different OS there). The Geeks yesterday told me that if I kept working on F1 mode, the hardware problem gets worse. But our secretary now tells me one of our computers works that way (F1) because the battery is busted.

So many theories.

I think it’s grounded. (eh kung ako ang tama? Kahit abugado lang ako….ayan, kapag totoong inis na nasa tagalog na ……it seems grounded to me.)

I haven’t returned calls. Sorry.

I cannot be talked to in a rational way, I will send a distress signal like the gizmo if you try to ask me something.

I’d like to thank Mr. Gadgets, a Ph.D holder in communication research, for tinkering with the computer and making the alarm stop; for thirty minutes;  Mr. Computer Doctor for “erasing” (rubbing the memory card with a Mongol pencil eraser) and discovering that the blaring siren- could be temporarily shut down from this model by pressing F1 and F8 and I could use it in that mode but we weren’t comfortable with that; and finally, the Geekest of Geeks of U.P., the computer scientists of Dilnet, for taking a look at the computer and for all of them  giving the same diagnosis, and for being certain (and correct, as shown later); it was hardware and not software, moisture in the memory card, problem with the contact, or if not those, a factory defect; and then back to Mr. Computer Doctor who this time, “erased harder” (rubbed the memory card harder with a Mongol pencil eraser) since I was going to replace the two slivers if all else failed …and it worked! It really did. It was simple and explainable; you just have to be certain so you can be determined; sorry to all those whose calls i did not return, I was in a trance figuring out the gizmo, i will try to return those calls (one evening, it was that drizzly Monday, my computer released a disconcerting alarm, like the sound of a house on fire, or a car being stolen, it was loud, high- pitched, intermittent); thanks also to everybody who heard it and did not run to  the  fire exit but just gave their commentary; running commentaries (“hey, stop it” “what’s going on” “shut it down”).