On thursday August 18th I think it was this dang electronic gizmo went and crashed...
All I could get was a black screen with purple lines and it would not start in Safe Mode no matter what I did.
With no grandchildren or our own children around, the old girl down in Boston, United States for a visit I was left alone to figure it out.
I had several choices:
(1) Buy a new computer which I did not want to do until
the new Microsoft Flight comes out.
(2) Bash it with a hammer.
(3) Throw it off the balcony of this condo into the river.
I figured it was only thirty feet or so and I was sure
it would clear the sail boats masts.
Well a good friend saved this electronic gizmo as he talked me into calling another friend who always helps me out when this thingy goes into orbit.
The first thing he said to me was "is it at the bottom of the river Doug?"....
He came right over and hauled this electronic gizmo away for several days.
First he thought it was a virus, it was not and I do virus checks every day.
Well it came to being a Driver which downloaded automatically and it ran fine at his computer shop however after he left it did the same thing again after I turned it back on.
He took it back again and finally I ended up replacing Vista
with Windows 7 which I am trying to figure out.
Well he ordered me a new Video Card (EVGA 580 GTX) which will be here next week along with something else...not sure but this electronic gizmo should be up and flying soon.
It will get me through until I see what I want to do when Microsoft Flight comes on line.
I will try to take a look at some pictures you folks have posted shortly and believe me I missed seeing them although I did manage to spend everyday at the bugsmasher field with a bunch of other Old Retired Rocking Chair Flying Geezers who told some of the tallest tales you would want to hear...
The old girl and a couple of other nattering nannies will be home Sunday so I got some time on my hands to figure out this Windows 7.
It seems I lost all my contacts for my e-mail which has not changed and it will take time to figure out this new program...
Have a great day everyone...
