The battery should only cost a couple of bucks, so no great loss if it didn't need replacing.
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evil jimi - Apr 10, 2009 5:54:57 am PDT #9691 of 25501
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
Dana - Apr 10, 2009 10:36:47 am PDT #9692 of 25501
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Resetting the BIOS (by pulling the battery) didn't fix the problem. From googling, it definitely sounds like 5 years isn't an unreasonable life expectancy for the mobo battery.
I still kind of suspect that it's a hardware failure, but going out to buy a battery will give me an excuse to get out of the house.
Dana - Apr 10, 2009 11:02:53 am PDT #9693 of 25501
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
And just for fun, I pulled the memory and made sure the computer would boot with only two sticks in the various slots. I'm pretty darn sure it's not the memory.
God, I hate pulling and putting in memory.
Dana - Apr 10, 2009 4:37:47 pm PDT #9694 of 25501
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
And now the system won't even POST. We're getting the beeps that mean memory error. So either it was failing and has failed, or by messing with the memory, we fucked something up.
Sigh.
DCJensen - Apr 11, 2009 5:02:58 am PDT #9695 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.
Hil R. - Apr 11, 2009 2:27:46 pm PDT #9696 of 25501
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Anyone know why gmail thinks that I'm in Germany? When I try to access it, I get a page with this message:
We can't provide service under the Gmail name in Germany; we're called Google Mail here instead.
If you're travelling in Germany, you can access your mail at >[link]
Oh, and we'd like to link the URL above, but we're not allowed to do that either. Drat.
For general information about Google, please visit www.google.com or www.google.de.I started getting that message when I was staying in a hotel in Boston, and I thought there was just something weird with their network. But now I'm back home and still getting it. I can get my mail by going to mail.google.com, but I'm trying to figure out what's making me get this message, and if it's affecting anything else.
DCJensen - Apr 11, 2009 5:12:14 pm PDT #9697 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.
Hil, check your computer's city/timezone settings.
Hil R. - Apr 11, 2009 5:14:03 pm PDT #9698 of 25501
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Where do I check those? I'm using a mac.
DCJensen - Apr 11, 2009 5:16:22 pm PDT #9699 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.
Also, check how Google has you set up.
To change the country on your Google Account:
Visit the Google Accounts homepage and sign in to your account.
Click the Edit link next to 'Email addresses.' You'll then have the option to edit the information in the 'Country' field.
DCJensen - Apr 11, 2009 5:18:29 pm PDT #9700 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.
Where do I check those? I'm using a mac.
Apple->System Preferences->Date & Time->Time Zone
On mine, under Tiger.