Last Friday I spent most of the day at the hospital with Alex, and was downloading a movie on my computer. I got home and found that the computer had restarted, but as usual, nobody did it. Later on Friday night, the computer shut down and restarted while I was laying in bed reading, and nobody did do it. I was quite perplexed, not sure why it had happened. This is my new computer we're talking about, less than a month old! Anyway, just in case it happened again, I loaded the download program into the startup folder, so that I could continue to get the movie during the night. Next morning the computer was off and wouldn't restart.
I seem to be plagued by computer problems. I did learn how to remove the power supply from a computer, and to diagnose whether that's what the problem was, or whether it was a motherboard problem. I guess that's a bonus!!!
Meanwhile, I'm back to using the old computer, which has problems of it's own, though I did manage to solve a problem that's been plaguing me for months. The icons on the desktop used to jitter out of control, the CPU usage would go from 0 to 100 erratically, web pages kept reloading, the email would download constantly..... I started unplugging a few things to see if it was a hardware problem, and it turns out that the keyboard was the culprit. It was a HP keyboard, not very old, but it didn't want to play with the rest of the gear. Since replacing it the computer is working fine. It still has a noisy fan, but I can live with that.
I have less than a year now to give up smoking, I promised the kids I'd give up before I turn 50. The count-down has begun.