{"id":480,"date":"2005-05-19T22:47:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-19T22:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwilson.me.uk\/blog\/2005\/05\/why-consultants-should-leave-hardware.htm"},"modified":"2007-07-25T21:44:05","modified_gmt":"2007-07-25T20:44:05","slug":"why-consultants-should-leave-hardware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2005\/05\/why-consultants-should-leave-hardware.htm","title":{"rendered":"Why consultants should leave hardware alone&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--111654281248685820-->Today has not been a good day for me and computer hardware.<\/p>\n<p>It all started a couple of weeks back, when I dropped the bag in which I carry the Dell Latitude D600 that I use for work. When I took the computer out of the bag, I had cracked the case on the edge of the screen, although everything was still working. Of course, this type of damage is not covered by warranty (and I can hardly blame Dell on this one) but when I e-mailed the internal support department they had an identical computer over which a colleague had spilt red wine. So, it should just be a case of swapping over the screens and my laptop will be good as new &#8211; or that&#8217;s what I thought&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Once I put it all back together, I powered on the computer and&#8230; smelt burning electronics, combined with wisps of smoke from the motherboard. So that was the end of laptops 1 and 2.<\/p>\n<p>The guys in internal support are helpful (and do have a sense of humour); luckily they had a spare D600 which was working, although the previous user had reported a problem with the display that no-one had managed to look at yet. I slid my original hard disk into the spare unit and it all fired up. Windows Server 2003 plug and play detected a hardware change (just a different wireless network card) and I was away &#8211; except that the display switched off after a few minutes, and attaching an external monitor didn&#8217;t make any difference. After half an hour on the phone (during which I reseated the monitor connector and restarted the computer several times, with the screen going blank on each occasion after varying lengths of time) I managed to convince Dell that a new motherboard was required and they are dispatching an engineer in due course. In the meantime, I need a computer to work with and so, on to laptop number 4, on which I am typing this post (it has a dodgy trackpad and the DVD drive makes some funny noises, but I can live with that for a few days).<\/p>\n<p>Now, the combination of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2005\/05\/finally-joining-ipod-generation.htm\">my recent iPod purchase<\/a> (so far I&#8217;ve managed to rip about a sixth of my CD collection and I&#8217;m up to 11Gb of MP3s) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/photo.shtml\">my hobby as a photographer<\/a> (over 2000 6-megapixel images in the last 6 months) means that I have run out of hard disk space on my home PC, so this morning I bought a 250Gb Seagate Barracuda hard disk from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rlsupplies.co.uk\/\">RL Supplies<\/a>. I was understandably a bit nervous about installing new hardware after the debacle which destroyed 2 laptops and disabled one more &#8211; my IT Manager suggested I look out for at least two pairs of magpies on the way home, hang a horseshoe over the door, get hold of some lucky heather and find a four-leaf clover before even opening the case.<\/p>\n<p>I quickly hooked up the new disk and then, armed only with an MS-DOS boot disk and a copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.symantec.com\/ghost\/\">Symantec Ghost<\/a>, I cloned my old disk onto the new one in half an hour. Then I removed the original disk, rebooted and after a quick restart to let Windows XP sort itself out once it had detected the hardware change I was away again with a 625% increase in capacity.<\/p>\n<p>Phew! Now I think I&#8217;ll stick to software for a while&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today has not been a good day for me and computer hardware. 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