Crash, crash, crash

Our tower started crashing two weeks ago, to save the data I ordered up a new hard drive, figuring I could transfer at least some of the data.  The new drive got here, installed it and started working...the screen went, it wasn't the hard drive after all, it was the video card.  So since they do not have this old card anywhere I went with a new Radeon 5450 with four times the ram as my 2400xt.  I asked Vistiontek if this card was a good replacement and they said it should work fine and they were right.  The card works well and installed it easy, the included soft ware made it all easy.
canyoudougit 

Lemon Pie

I just made a lemon meringue pie, got it into the shell, tasted the spoon...SOUR!!  OMG I forgot the sugar!  So to save the pie I sprinkled the pie with sugar and worked into the filling, it was still warm so it was easy to work in with out ruining the filling.  When it sets up I'll know if it worked out.  canyoudougit

Furniture by Scott Leibke

 

Head Board

 

Dresser,  Sorry about the quality but my cell phone is just a cheapo.  This is not mine, they were made by someone I know.  Greater looking than the photos show.  You can find him at http://www.artinwoodworking.com    check his work out.

canyoudougit

 

I can't change the laws of physics

I got it back together and broke the back light bulb again, then the other laptop's hard drive went bad.  Solution...transfer files that run the older hard drive from the failing hard drive to the good drive.

Once I get the good drive out I can transfer the files to it from the bad drive then I can put the newer drive in the older laptop.  After I got it all set up I can put the newer hard drive in the older laptop.  Now I've added 2 meg of ram, a faster, bigger hard driver and cleaned the older laptop.

End result...works good.

Canyoudougit

It's Dead Jim!

Just like Star Trek, hopefully like Star Trek I will be able to bring it back to life.  In Sci-Fi dead is not always dead.

I got a new bulb for the back light of the lcd and am having trouble putting all back together, my short fingers can be a problem with these tiny screws.  Getting the bulb in just the right place is a problem as well.

Does any one use Google voice as their phone service?  I know you can use an ata adapter like 

OBi100 VoIP Telephone Adapter and Voice Service Bridge

Anyone use Nettalk? I have been looking into both. Canyoudougit

Broke the laptop

I dropped the laptop a few times over the last year so the other day when I picked it up the screen went over backward...CRACK.  So I went on ebay and order two new hinges then I thought...I'll replace the lights while I have it open and why add a web cam into the frame.  What the heck I might as well replace than worn out battery.  

This is the broken hinge, you can see the broken part on top.  I got the new hinge in place without much trouble, but the other parts.  The new light was hard to get into place and I broke it, went to the extra hinge I got and Yes I broke that one also.  Now I can not use the laptop as I have to lights for the display.  If it didn't work so well I would not have thought of fixing all this stuff, now I will have to buy more lights and start over with the repairs.  I just stuffed it away until the lights get here.  If I where rich I would take it to a shop to have them put in.  Canyoudougit

All the snow at once

In the news on KARE 11 they say we got 16 inches of snow yesterday and I just finished shoveling the driveway out.  I stopped and watched a movie off YouTube  it was an older Christmas movie that we had seen but can not find anymore.   I wanted to get the driveway cleaned up because they say we are going to get cold weather next and I do not want to be out there in the cold.  The cold hurts.