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I was trying to add a new hard drive to my computer tower couple of days ago (and had to get a mounting bracket to put it in the media bay on account of there being no more room in the hard drive slot), and in the process, I must have mangled something -- now, it's not even booting, and the computer is giving me this scary three-tone noise. One long beep followed by two short beeps. Googling it makes it sound like a RAM problem. I had to pull out the memory stick to get it out of the way for the hard drive insertion then put it back, and something must have gone wrong there. I tried other memory stick slots on the motherboard, making sure it's properly inserted and everything, but I get the same three-beep noise every time.
I've ordered replacement RAM sticks, but my big worry is that it's not the memory, but the motherboard. Does motherboard problem result in the beeping noise like i described?
What happens if you put it all back to the way it was, with your old Hard Drive.
I exported a budget from Quicken that I'm now playing with in Excel. The issue I'm having is that Quicken for some reason lists both inflows and outflows as positive numbers. In order to make Excel do the math correctly, I need the income budget numbers to be positive and the expense numbers to be negative.
Is there a way to automate this (something equivalent to a "case change" in Word)?
Hmm. How does it differentiate between inflows and outflows? Are they in different columns, or is it just with a text field or something?
I am trying to cancel an MSN dialup subscription for my mother. I got a man on the line saying very quickly "We are updating our system, could you call back in 24 hours" and hung up. Do you think he was playing me. I have to get this cancelled!
Inflows are at the top in a bunch of rows, then outflows beneath them.
The Quicken export just gave me the raw numbers, so I've been manually converting the rows where I need math (budget vs actual, totals etc) into formulas.
It's not such a huge spreadsheet that I couldn't just re-enter these numbers, but if there's a way to have Excel do it in one step that would be nifty.
Do you think he was playing me. I have to get this cancelled!
Yes. If you call back demand to speak with a supervisor right away.
Nevermind on the Excel thing. I can work with the numbers the way they are.
That sounds like a RAM thing Vonnie. When I've seen the beeping without posting, that's what it is more often than not.
