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Yipes. Good vibes to your computer, and even better ones for your cat.
Thanks. We got it back on by doing a manual restart at the power supply in the back. I feel like having to do that can't be good.
My cat's suscpicious lump looks like a mole. She scratched it bloody the other day, and I think it's getting bigger. I'm assuming it will have to be removed. Really glad I got cat insurance.
I hope the cat is treatable and fully covered by your insurance.
It does till sound like a possible PSU issue. Swapping the PSU would probably be one of the cheaper possible fixes - but I can't recall if that was already tried.
The repair guy said he checked the PSU, but I'm not completely convinced he didn't miss something.
On Mother's Day, I was at Walgreens and someone gave me a bouquet of flowers. This iscwhat they look like right now.
yes, those are hallowed eggs in the bowl. It reminds me of my grandma and her fun with hens. She wasdad's mum, too.
non-complaint: My passport arrived in my mailbox today. Ten days from application to it showing up, and I didn't even pick rush service. Bonus: it landed in MY mailbox and not the mailbox of one of my neighbors!! Totally not a given around here. Now to hope my supporting paperwork also comes to my mailbox.
complaint: I finally got access to enter hours in my time card yesterday... and, because nothing can be simple, the wage rate was entered wrong. I brought this up and was told I needed to fill out some paperwork for them to change it.
So... okay, they need my permission to fix their foul-up. Fine, here's your paperwork, fix it.
Got an email back yesterday evening from HR saying that they fixed it and made it retroactive to 5/1.
When I looked today... hours for yesterday and today are the correct rate, but apparently they didn't actually do the part that made it retroactive.
So there's ANOTHER email sent with a request to fix that.
I'm beginning to think these people have a contest going for who can muck up my onboarding process in the stupidest way possible.
Here is the vase after refreshing it last night!
Complete incompetence is not a good look for a workplace. I'm sorry they're still messing everything up for you.
You can't say they aren't being thorough. Thorough whats is left as an exercise for the reader.
Sadly, they're better than the last place. Not because they can tell their butts from a hole in the ground better -- that part seems to be the same. But these folks will actually eventually fix things if pestered enough. The other company ignored me entirely and left it broken more often than not.
And then, my last interaction with them was them sending an email to me and my county representative in April saying they wouldn't be paying for all the hours I claimed in March because I had gone over the total allowed for the plan period. So I got the satisfaction (?) of hitting reply-all and apologizing that I'd gone over, but pointing out that since they had never provided the updated budget they were supposed to in January, and my monthly account summaries for January and February hadn't arrived until March 27 (three days before the end of the plan period), I was flying blind and forced to guess at how many hours I was actually allowed. And appologized again that my guess was incorrect.
Given that MN social services people are reeeeallly touchy about fraud attempts right now, I did NOT appreciate them trying to throw me under the bus for their failure to do even the most basic parts of their jobs.
(Full disclosure: I did know I was overshooting, but I knew anything requested over budget just wouldn't be paid out, so it wasn't a matter of trying to get more than I was supposed to. I was trusting the cutoff to do its job. It also turned out that I was overshooting by less than I thought I was, so it was a good thing I did.)
That has got to be so frustrating.
Complaint: now my UPS threw an alarm. According to Google, this means that either the battery needs replacing (probably true) or it detected a short in the computer (probably also true). I reset the UPS unit and it's working again, but I'm afraid to turn on the PC. And the PSU is warmer than normal. I don't even know what's happening.
Complaint: also I'm on my phone and have no clue if this post is going to format right. I'm trying html to get paragraphs.
Non-complaint: at least my phone still works.
Non-Compliant: Yeah, Wife is home, and she brought the whole pharmacy with her.
Non-Complaint: Today I made chicken soup from scratch (including saved frozen rotiserrie chicken) and thanks to the Better Homes and Garden New Cookbook that was designed for new homemakers and also includes our modern appliances/tools. I have two others by them that get used often but none had a simple Chicken Soup. It turned out pretty good. Which was helpful as my flatmate who has many times made soup for me when I have been ill, woke up this morning with a scratchy throad, headache, very hoarse. Of course the man who NEVER gets sick, got something just two days before my surgery. Murphy's Law strikes.
I have been downloading some of the items from DIM that hadn't been installed on my new computers and while doing this I ran across a forum thread from 2018 listing 50's and 60's products. While some items are not available now, it still is a great thread - https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/3921141/#Comment_3921141.
And this is why I respect you all. When folks take the time to research their purchases or the store, they build a legacy that will echo down the years. So thanks to you all and those no longer with us.
Mary
How is she feeling? Do they know what was wrong?
Complaint: I turned on the power supply. There were many sparks. I think I've found the problem. The repair guy must not have checked it like he said he did. I ordered a new power supply that will be here Thursday.
...at least it sounds like it was not a catastrophic failure which could have damaged other components.
Sparks are never good, but hopefully the new power supply will fix your issue.
Sounds like it's time to find a new repair guy.
Where were to sparks? Hopefully it didn't damage the mothetboard.
It was so fast I'm not sure if they might have damaged the motherboard. The sparks came out the back of the power supply and kind of lit everything up. Nothing looks damaged, but that's all I can tell until the new power supply gets here and I can get it installed. Fingers are crossed at this point.
Sparks and transient death throes from power supply are rarely a good omen.
But luck sometimes holds. (*Finger's crossed*)
A little post "horse stolen" analysis:
Regarding old power supply: Brand; Wattage capacity; Age; Dust buildup; Fan condition?
Regarding new power supply: Brand; Wattage capacity; Model class?
Was the person who looked at it a paid person or a friend? If you paid I would consider asking them to cover your losses - or provide you with a working system at least as good as the previous one - if there is damage.
My old power supply was a Pevia 800w. The repair guy put that in in early 2024. He cleaned out all of my dust when I took it to him when everything first started acting up. It looks OK, but smells like burnt electronics. The fan turns. That's about all I can tell without power.
My new one is an MSI 1000w compact size (not a lot of room in the PC).
The repair guy is a paid guy who owns two shops. If my motherboard is fried, I'm probably going to have to go back to him to get a new one, anyway. I'm not confident in my ability to use thermal paste. You know, I literally said to him that I thought my PC repair was going to be something easy like the PSU. And he said, "oh, that's fine. I checked it."
Complaint: Last fall, after the summer heat was over, and I'd gotten frustratrated with the performance of my 15 year old air-conditioner, I bought a nice big (12,000BTU), new one, on sale, through Amazon. It was delivered to my door. I huffed and puffed, and shoved it over the door threshold, across the rug and into the kitchen, where it has sat in its box, unopened, for 8 months and been used as the foundation of a wall of boxes that I use as extra shelf space in my kitchen.
Today my house-neighbor/maintenance-guy came to the door and asked if I wanted my A/C installed today (temp is currently 80F). He looked at the box and immediatly caught that it required a minimum 27 inch window opening. My windows (and all the windows in the house) are 25 inches wide. Arghhh....
So now I have a $400 cardboard counter in my kitchen. I guess, I need to get busy and find a buyer. (*Sigh*) Stupid, stupid, stupid.
And all the more stupid that in eight months I hadn't discovered my error. "Error, error. Re-evalutate... Must re-evaluate..." -- Nomad
Sadly there is not an easy way to check a power supply that I know of that someone who isn't tech-savvy with computers would find easy to follow. They do sell testers, but you still have to do some minor disconnecting on certain things and the use of jumpers. Did you call the guy after it happened? If not, do so that way it is on record that you called.
non-complaint: Wage issue solved. I think things might be maybe finally rolling along with that end of things. Possibly.
complaint: Little Dude's support plan got sent back with instructions to remove a bunch of requested items because "even if it's being used to support a disability, it's not a disability-related item." Okay, then, you go ahead and point me to the link for the Autism Desk Fan(tm) you'll approve, how about that? (Wind blowing at him helps him stay regulated.)
Also, I'm not allowed to ask for multiples so that he can have them in multiple rooms because that's "comfort and convenience." Well, yes, it would be comforting and convenient to have the soft thing in multiple rooms so that he has it available to beat his head on instead of the floor -- IS THAT NOT THE POINT??? Sorry, kid, you only get to be safe and regulated in one room. Government says so.
Obviously I'm not going to let him suffer and go without, but it's just absurd. What's the purpose of a support plan if you're not going to allow the things that... I dunno... SUPPORT THE PERSON?
@LeatherGryphon - Ouch. I've done stuff like that. Not at that price point, but... well, may a buyer come swiftly and easily.
Yes, you had said he owned two shops - sorry, I had forgottten. In that case I think he owes you a major contribution to fixing any resultant issues - it would have fixed your issues and possibly avoided damage if he had offered a PSU switch (ideally on a trial basis so you could swap it back for a partial refund if it wasn't the issue).
Do you think he'll give me a hard time about ordering and installing the new one myself? It's not here yet, so I haven't, but it has been shipped. And we took out the old one already.
Re-Evaluation: OK, so now I'm confused. I looked up the specifications for that particular A/C unit by LG, (LW1224RD) and found two sites, (one of them was LG's own website) that say minimum window dimension is 23 inches. WTF! Why does the box say "for windows 27 to 36 inches"? (*Sigh*) Now I've got to unseal the box and actually measure the unit and its wings before I try to sell a $480 A/C for probably less than the $400 that I paid.
I don't know, it depends how reasonable and/or guilty-feeling they are. You'd have had to pay for a new PSU anyway, if they had identiified the issue - it's just anything that the PSU damaged because they hadn't that I would argue they should be covering, or at least making a significant contribution to.