I would love to hear what "innate knowledge" you need to work on computers.BurningDoom wrote: You're completely twisting this into something it's not. You act as if I am some backwards hillbilly or something that's completely opposed to learning anything new. If I was, then I wouldn't have even gotten to the RAM stage.
Once the computer is already broken and the damage is done, it's a little late to learn and even if I did I would have no Google to look it up. When you're car breaks, you don't suddenly become a mechanic. These are skills and knowledge that you have to learn. I don't know why you find it funny that I think you have to have some innate knowledge to work on computers, because frankly, you do.
I find it baffling that a grown ass man finds it necessary to rag on someone for not knowing something. I thought we got past that juvenile stuff after grade school ended.
You keep making this car analogy. I don't currently have a vehicle, but I did have a problem with one of my water heaters a while back. I researched things and learned how to flush it out, and now it works fine. Before that, I'd never even touched a water heater outside of lighting the pilot on it. I'm simply not going to pay for someone else to do something I can easily learn to do for myself.
I'm sorry, but you plopped down over $300 for this, and you didn't have to. You're the one getting all offended at us for telling you that you could have easily used another computer to either research your problem or even just ask us. You claim that Noise is the only one trying to genuinely help you, yet he's telling you the exact same thing that we are.
What did you do with the old computer anyway? There was likely little (if anything) wrong with it hardware wise. If you still have it, you can probably learn to fix it up and keep it around as a backup or something. You've repeatedly said that you're afraid you'll screw things up trying to fix it, but what I (and others) have been trying to explain is that this stuff is designed in such a way that you pretty much can't screw it up. The connectors to things are all uniquely shaped, there's absolutely no worry about plugging something into the wrong spot and frying it or something like that. You might think I'm just ragging on you about that, but what I'm trying to tell you is that if you gave it a shot, you might be surprised at how easy it really is.