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azurelunatic) wrote2002-01-09 11:46 pm
azurelunatic) wrote2002-01-09 11:46 pm
Is that a soldering iron in your pocket? If so, I'm happy to see you...
Tigereye's power cable broke down today, the bit of cord right after the strain relief rubber bits near the plug that goes into her from the transformer.
It had been breaking for months, for nearly a year, over a year (thank you BJ!) but my attempt to replace it from Dell's website and on the phone was unsuccessful.
Today it just gave up. Last night, I suspect, because I encountered no less than twenty low battery warnings in starting up, in clumps of two to three at a time, this afternoon. When I reached to adjust the cord, I got a small but noticable (five minutes of hand-shaking) shock to my left hand. (I reached one-handed; I'm not stupid.)
I took her to school and enlisted the aid of my favorite geek, Adam, who looked up a soldering iron and glopped gloops of silver-solder onto the frayed ends of the wire, being mindful not to melt the plastic of the other wire and thus cause a short. We had some time in getting it to stick, but eventually the geeks prevailed and Tigereye works once more.
Getting her online, on the other hand, is going to be a bit of a bit-ness. She's showing up a "cannot be found" error getting online, while ENKI here is online happily. Guess I wait for Adam to get home.
It had been breaking for months, for nearly a year, over a year (thank you BJ!) but my attempt to replace it from Dell's website and on the phone was unsuccessful.
Today it just gave up. Last night, I suspect, because I encountered no less than twenty low battery warnings in starting up, in clumps of two to three at a time, this afternoon. When I reached to adjust the cord, I got a small but noticable (five minutes of hand-shaking) shock to my left hand. (I reached one-handed; I'm not stupid.)
I took her to school and enlisted the aid of my favorite geek, Adam, who looked up a soldering iron and glopped gloops of silver-solder onto the frayed ends of the wire, being mindful not to melt the plastic of the other wire and thus cause a short. We had some time in getting it to stick, but eventually the geeks prevailed and Tigereye works once more.
Getting her online, on the other hand, is going to be a bit of a bit-ness. She's showing up a "cannot be found" error getting online, while ENKI here is online happily. Guess I wait for Adam to get home.