The Real I.S Dept.

Whats Happenin?
For the past couple of days at work, it starting to feel more like an Information Service (IS) department to me. Like when I was attending and working at the Institute of Technology in Modesto, CA and Aaron and Eric would be doing a lot around campus. The type of work that made me want to be in an IS department. Just to let ya'll know, that I am still working on that PC that seemed to have a bad hard drive in the first place. But I replaced it with a new hard drive and I am still running into the same issue. Dell, the company that we use, sent us another motherboard. I had to spend about an hour with Dell's tech support to go through the steps of troubleshooting because the PC was still under warranty. After installing the new motherboard, the PC still would not load Windows XP. Can you believe it? Because I can't. That was the frustrating part about Wednesday. I haven't had a day like that since I was working at Technical Connections in Oakdale, CA. It was a long and hard day, but yet it was still fun. On Friday, the first thing I did in the morning was call "Dell" once again for the same dam problem, and they went through more diagnostics with me and still the same result. So they are going to send out a couple of more parts either Monday or Tuesday. I gave myself until about 9:30am to work on this PC, then I wanted to move to another project. I don't like to work on anything else until I fix this box because I want to concentrate getting this machine up and going but I guess I just have to wait. In the mean time, there are two other Dell PC's that needed to be cleaned up and that is what I did for the rest of the day of Friday. I got one of the PC's cleaned out and the other is about done, will be done first thing Monday morning. I at least got something accomplished on Friday rather than Thursday, where I was going crazy. But that is Ok, because I know that I am going to have a hell of a lot more that that. That is part of being in the tech field, that half the time I feel like computers are going to give me a heart attack. Stess level rises up, and I believe mine rose up on Thursday. Anyway, thats the last couple of days. Time to chill this weekend.

Jay,
BVSer 275