I accidentally messed up my Mom’s Laptop

I thought I would give you all an update on what is going on with my laptop saga. Needless to say, it has been a nerve racking 24 hours around here. As you all know my Laptop’s LCD display went on fritz. It had been acting up for a good long while. When the Laptop would boot up, it would have a reddish color to it, and sometimes it would flicker; which drove me up the wall.

Well, finally yesterday, my LCD display on my laptop finally went out, while I was watching a video on youtube. Luckily for me, I have an old SVGA 17 inch monitor, it is a Amptron GS17 monitor. It is old school, but hey, it works.

So, anyhow, my Mom, who is the greatest lady ever — lent me a Dell Inspiron 1545 laptop, that my dad used, before he started using an 17 inch Dell laptop, that my Mom gave to him, when she bought herself a newer 17 inch laptop.  This laptop had Windows Visa Premium in it. Also too, and please note this point: The Laptop HAS NO Harddrive LIGHT at all.

So, I got the thing, and of course, it needed like a bunch of updates, because it had not been hooked up to the Internet, in long while.  So, I started the process of getting all of those updates. In the process of doing all that, I did something stupid — I had an excuse and reason for it — But I digress.

While the laptop was apply all of the updates for Windows Visa, the update process seemed to have stalled; remember what I said about the Hard Drive light? Yeah, that’s right, I had zero clue as to what was happening in that Department. So, I committed the ultimate stupid mistake. I actually shut the machine off, while it was applying the updates.  Oops. 😳

So, needless to say, the Laptop’s hard drive “Drive Table” is hosed and I mean hosed good. Can’t boot from CD, the computer wants a driver for the Hard Drive, and naturally the driver is not on any of the CD’s that came with that laptop.  So, now, I not only have this laptop, of whom the LCD display is hosed, I also screwed my mother’s laptop, that she used on occasion in her bedroom, horribly up.

To say that my Mother was displeased with me, would be the understatement of the century. I tried to explain to her, that it really was not my fault, that I had no idea what was happening in the Hard Drive department; but all she knows is that she loaned me a laptop and that I screwed it up. 🙁

So, the chances of me getting a new laptop from my parents, at this point, is slim to nil. The horrible part is, that it is all my fault; if I would have left that damned laptop alone and let it do it’s thing, none of this would have ever happened. But it did and now, I am back to square one, and now owe my mother for the laptop that I destroyed.

I was thinking of putting up Donation buttons in this posting; but I doubt very seriously that would do any good. I know I am not well liked by anybody in the blogosphere. But, my Mom does not know this. All she knows is that I blog to defend the “Republicans” as she calls it. She also most likely thinks that “He ought to go ask his rich Republican friends for donations to cover the cost of my laptop.” Which all makes me very sad, because I happen to know that the Conservative Blogosphere and the rich Republicans, as she calls them — happen to hate my guts.

So, yeah, needless to say; I am in a serious bind. I have zero clue what to do at this point. My sidebar has a button, if you wish to donate; give enough, so I can pay my Mom for the laptop that I messed up and so I can get me a new laptop to replace the one that went out on me. I will not hold my breath, because I know my status in the blogosphere, but I have to try and make things right.

I brought it all on myself and for that I feel really small and honestly folk, that feeling really sucks to the high heavens.

Update: October 21, 2013: Someone must have done a search on this, because it popped up in my stats. I am very happy to report, that not long after this was posted, my Mom was able to do a recovery from the actual laptop itself. I don’t know all the details, all I know is, it worked. 😀 I’m still using that laptop, it works very well. 🙂