Sometimes Cleanliness is not Next to Godliness; It's Next to Impossible

Since I have a new PC to drop into the mix, I decided to clean the computer room, aka my corner of the basement. I did have had a nasty tagle of wires on the floor under the desk, and our occasionally incontinent cat may have christened the tangle, so it was quite a task. I had to unhook everything and clean each cable individually. I even disassembled the subwoofer and removed a nice speaker-shaped two-inch thick mat of dog and cat hair from it (the speaker sits on the floor pointing up so things fall in). After scrubbing and cleaning, hooked everything back up and turned on the main system: our nice Sony Vaio with integrated TV, DVD+-RW, 19" flat panel and all, and IT DOES NOT WORK. The lights come on, the drive cycles, but the monitor and keyboard are just dead. As one of my Senior Chiefs back in the Navy used to say, "The lights are on but nobody's home" (of course, he was talking about one of the sailors in my division, but it fits here too). Hey, I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING. One of Heinlein's old sayings comes to mind: there ain't no justice (TANJ). But it's a by-God CLEAN dead computer. Grrrr.

Posted by trygstad | Category: Rant | 11:54 PM