My computer is fried....

ozark_jewels · #1 04/08/08, 05:44 PM

And I can only get over to Mom's every once in a while to check e-mail. I should get my new modem within a week and then to get it installed(unless I can figure it out for myself), so I am looking at 1-2 more weeks of being mainly offline. I have PM's I am not getting answered due to the time factor(I am a a one-finger typer so I'm slow). I'll try to get them read and answered soon.
If you need to contact me, please call me at 417-349-2217.
Thanks!!

topside1 · #2 04/08/08, 05:57 PM

Emily, installing a modem is very simple. Maybe do a search on mom's puter for guidance. Once you receive your new one it will be easy to simply identify, un-plug the old and plug in new....good luck!

thaiblue12 · #3 04/08/08, 06:17 PM

Did you give your computer a static electric shock? I did that once and I literally fried the motherboard, modem, cd rom drive, and the memory. My husband was kind of happy to get upgrades and I was not!
I have actually changed things inside the computer and trust me I am not an expert. But it was pretty easy as long as you remove the correct thing and it fits back in the same spot. My husband had me order the incorrect video card once and it took me 5 or so minutes to realize this after struggling to get the stinking thing in.
Hope you are back on line soon. I will miss ya

bstuart29 · #4 04/09/08, 12:56 AM

Sorry about the computer problems Emily. I hope ya up and running soon. I'm a member of the one finger club too

. I will miss not picking on ya

. Behave yourself

CountryHaven · #5 04/09/08, 10:57 AM

This just sucks, my modem got fried too and I have n o idea how, I don'tstay on during storms,and I unplug my phone line, but I'm on hubby's laptop (yuk) cause mine won't dial in.

ozark_jewels · #6 04/09/08, 05:36 PM

Thanks John, thats good to know.

I'll be doing it myself if I can figure it out. Now I'm just waiting on it to arrive.
It got fried during the last huge storm that rolled over over a week ago. It was of course the *one* time we forgot to unplug the computer and everything else before we left for Mom and Dad's basement. We don't have any type of shelter and live in a trailer, so when we hear about tornadoes just a town over, we head for the parents place! It was a wild and crazy night and when we got home we were greeted by a dead computer. It was a cheap loss since we didn't lose any critters or anything more important.

CountryHaven · #7 04/10/08, 09:49 AM

Well, Emily, in case you see this, I have something to suggest. It may not be the case. Yesterday I said my modem was fried too, but I just couldn't understand why. Well, I went to WalMart, and bought a cheap modem (actually the same one Dell would have sold me, so it's fine). I paid 26 bucks plus tax for it, got it home, installed it, hooked the computer back up...

it didn't work.

I was so perplexed.

I spent the evening on my hubby's crappy laptop. When I logged off to go to bed it hit me. I had been so focused on it being a computer problem that I didn't check the actual phone line.

I have two lines in my 'office'. One is for the house phone, and one is soley for the computer. I unhooked the house phone, and plugged the computer phone line into the house phone jack and VIOLA!!!

I'm here now on my computer. (yay, happy dance) but on the house phone number. It was the phone line jack that was fried. (It's not the actual phone line because it works just fine on hubby's computer in his office... it's my wall jack that got incinerated apparently).

I changed the modem for nothing, lol... but it wasn't that expensive and I now know how to open the Dell casing (I couldn't for the life of me figure it out, there weren't any screws, nothing like on my old computer... comes in handy to actually LOOK at the manual that comes with the computer. Turns out it was so simple it wasn't even funny. I little slide latch and the whole side slides right off!!!, ARGH. It only took me about 5 minutes to change the modem... it took me an hour to figure out how to open the computer. hahahahaa)

Anyway, it might very well be your modem, but if it doens't work once you change it, you might want to see if it's the actual phone jack that got busted up. In your case since with the urgency of getting out and not unplugging the comp it probably is your modem. It really isn't hard to change though. Don't let the instructions frighten you. It SOUNDS scary. All that be sure to be grounded (it's important, but easy, not as eery as they make it sound), and using static proof pads (who has them besides computer geeks who go inside their computers all the time?) Just be careful, but you'll be surprised at how easy it is.