I've been working on a friend's computer for almost a month. The reality is that I spent about three solid days on it and the rest of the time it sat in my office untouched, a victim of my procrastination. It had same weird OS problem that caused it to reboot 60 seconds after Vista launched. I beat my head against the problem but couldn't find out what it was. So I decided it was going to have to be rebuilt.
I went over to the friend's house last night to rebuild it with her present so that she could make certain we didn't forget to save any of her data. It took me six hours to do the rebuild. And at the very end just as I was finishing up the last thing it started throwing a weird error complaining about the battery. ?!?!?! In the end it turned out to be a Sony Vaio component that I installed while waiting for the last thing to finish. It included the VAIO Power Management app and that seemed to be having problems. It was like it couldn't properly interface the battery (probably because I hadn't installed some other VAIO garbage) and was screaming because of it. I promptly uninstalled the last VAIO garbage I installed and it went away. Unfortunately that took an extra half hour to fix. Very frustrating. The computer works completely now with the exception of installing iTunes. I told her I would come back another evening and get that set up for her. It's nice to have the computer out of my office and no longer hanging over my head, however. YAY!!!
I went over to the friend's house last night to rebuild it with her present so that she could make certain we didn't forget to save any of her data. It took me six hours to do the rebuild. And at the very end just as I was finishing up the last thing it started throwing a weird error complaining about the battery. ?!?!?! In the end it turned out to be a Sony Vaio component that I installed while waiting for the last thing to finish. It included the VAIO Power Management app and that seemed to be having problems. It was like it couldn't properly interface the battery (probably because I hadn't installed some other VAIO garbage) and was screaming because of it. I promptly uninstalled the last VAIO garbage I installed and it went away. Unfortunately that took an extra half hour to fix. Very frustrating. The computer works completely now with the exception of installing iTunes. I told her I would come back another evening and get that set up for her. It's nice to have the computer out of my office and no longer hanging over my head, however. YAY!!!
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