The Memory Express NE location is 2 blocks from Whitehorn Station. On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Graham Monk <[email protected]> wrote: > Memory Express NW is a bit closer to Dalhousie Station. > > graham > > On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 11:13 AM, Shawn <[email protected]> wrote: >> If you are lucky, it is the motor of the CD drive you are hearing. Or maybe >> just a dusty CPU fan (or maybe power supply or video card fan...). I say >> these are lucky because replacement is about $30 for these parts. >> >> If you are not so lucky, it could be your hard drive going. In which case, >> replacing the hard drive is in order, and that means loosing anything on >> that drive. (there are still ways you can try to recover the data >> though...). But a new drive can be had from $50 and up depending how much >> space you want. >> >> If it is just a CD Drive, a fan, or a drive, these can all be replaced on >> your own pretty easily and at much less cost than a repair shop. A repair >> shop costs approx $50/hour (last I heard, but I would plan for more), and in >> a worse case, there is maybe a few hours work there. Your computer is well >> outside usual warranty periods, so I let fear of voiding a warranty prevent >> me for trying things... :) >> >> IF you need to replace your CPU, Memory or motherboard, then you are pretty >> much looking at a new computer. The current standards/formats are a little >> different than 5 years ago. >> >> Regarding repair shops, I would stay away from Future Shop, Staples, Best >> Buy, etc. I would probably recommend Memory Express, Computer Rack, or some >> other equivalent focused computer shop. But I don't know of any near a >> CTrain station off hand. Memory Express south isn't TOOO far from Chinook, >> but it is still a 10 or 15 minute walk... >> >> Regarding upgrading Ubuntu. I had similar problems when I first installed >> 9.10. Enough frustration to make me look to other distros. In the end I >> came back to Kubuntu 9.10 as a clean install. Though now it is giving me >> grief with my CD burner, so maybe I'll try out another distro here sooner >> rather than later... Fedora 12 looked decent. >> >> >> HTH >> >> Shawn >> >> >> >> >> Ralph Boland wrote: >>> >>> When shutting down my computer last night I forgot to close the CD door. >>> The computer shutdown but left the door open. When I tried to reboot >>> it wouldn't start up. By pushing the door I managed to get the door >>> closed. >>> At this point (or before when the computer shut down) there was a >>> sound like a motor, likely the CD drive motor. This sound wouldn't >>> stop even though the computer was shutdown. The computer would not >>> turn on at this point so I unplugged it. I tried several times to >>> reboot after plugging in the computer but without success. The motor >>> sound restarted but the computer otherwise remained completely off. >>> After several tries the motor sound stopped. >>> The only thing I see now is to bring it to a repair shop. >>> Can anyone suggest where I should get it repaired that I can reach by >>> C-train and if necessary bus? >>> My computer is over 5 years old (2.7G celeron, 768M memory, cost >>> 600$ in 2004) >>> but is fast enough for me for the moment. At what repair cost point >>> does it make sense to just buy a new computer? >>> >>> >>> By the way if anybody is considering upgrading (as opposed to an >>> install) from ubuntu 9.04 >>> to 9.10, DON'T! I upgraded 9 days ago. Since then my computer >>> freezes a dozen or more times a day. Everything freezes except the >>> mouse. Even ctrl-alt F-6 is ignored. I tried to find a pattern as to >>> where it freezes but to no avail. The only way I found to avoid >>> freezing was to not log in although it seemed pretty safe when only in >>> the shell. I finally gave up and decided to do a fresh install. But >>> I ran into problems burning a backup DVD. I have my backups from 9 >>> days ago though. Then my computer died. >>> >>> Thanks for any advice. I can read emails ([email protected]) at the >>> library or I can be phoned at 403-764-3681 >>> >>> Ralph Boland >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> clug-talk mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca >>> Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) >>> **Please remove these lines when replying >> >> _______________________________________________ >> clug-talk mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca >> Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) >> **Please remove these lines when replying >> > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying >
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