Compocalypse '09: Despair
Aug. 9th, 2009 06:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cleolindaSo I finally work up the nerve to set up Camille.
Camille does not come with a user's manual.
I am serious, you guys. There's one of those quick-start foldouts and it's like, "1. Plug in the computer. 2. Flip the power switch on the back. 3. Press the power button on the front." The end. Like, it says this in 56 different languages on the back and the front, but... that's all it says. There are three discs, but I don't know what they are, and one seems to be a recovery disc and the other's "Nero 8" or something and I don't even know what the third one is. I turned on everything and it took me to a black screen with that real DOS-y looking print that said "Press DEL to setup," and it took me to some screen where--you know how you hit F10 to get to somewhere that you can put the computer into safe mode? (BIOS settings?) That scary place I never, ever go? Yeah. It looks like that. I don't know what to do with that.
So I'm currently on the ASUS troubleshooting page, but I'm not seeing a category for Here's How to Turn the Fucking Thing On Since We Neglected to Give You a User's Manual, Sorry About That. Next possible step: calling people.
Camille does not come with a user's manual.
I am serious, you guys. There's one of those quick-start foldouts and it's like, "1. Plug in the computer. 2. Flip the power switch on the back. 3. Press the power button on the front." The end. Like, it says this in 56 different languages on the back and the front, but... that's all it says. There are three discs, but I don't know what they are, and one seems to be a recovery disc and the other's "Nero 8" or something and I don't even know what the third one is. I turned on everything and it took me to a black screen with that real DOS-y looking print that said "Press DEL to setup," and it took me to some screen where--you know how you hit F10 to get to somewhere that you can put the computer into safe mode? (BIOS settings?) That scary place I never, ever go? Yeah. It looks like that. I don't know what to do with that.
So I'm currently on the ASUS troubleshooting page, but I'm not seeing a category for Here's How to Turn the Fucking Thing On Since We Neglected to Give You a User's Manual, Sorry About That. Next possible step: calling people.
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(frozen) Re: I told you to get a Mac...
Date: 2009-08-10 04:05 am (UTC)It may be there is "tone" I am missing.
However this "I told you so" comment is unhelpful and inappropriate. Having one's computer suddenly break is stressful, having one's new computer not working is possibly worse. Help or move on.
I also read it as disrespectful to the choices that Cleo made with the information available to her.
In Summary - Be helpful or move on.
(frozen) Re: I told you to get a Mac...
Date: 2009-08-10 06:01 am (UTC)(frozen) Re: I told you to get a Mac...
Date: 2009-08-10 01:15 pm (UTC)Cleo, I hope your computer issues get fixed soon. You certainly seem to have a wealth of computer information via your readers, so you've got a great resource on your side! (There is a bright side! :) )
Keeping my fingers crossed for you.
(frozen) Re: I told you to get a Mac...
Date: 2009-08-10 02:19 pm (UTC)S/he doesn't.
(frozen) Re: I told you to get a Mac...
Date: 2009-08-10 11:21 pm (UTC)I can now tag this person as "insulting mac ass" :D