Tempermental Computer?

I don't know about you, but it seems like when I have to do something important with my computer, it breaks down.  This is disturbing, to say the least.

I had just started internet marketing and found a great group of mentors online.  That's when my hard drive decided to stop working.  I have been working with computers for many years so changing my hard drive over to another computer was not a problem.  However, it was inconvenient as it is time consuming.  First you have to unplug everything.  Then you have to get your computer to a nice open place where you can work.  Next, the cover has to be removed and the power and controller cables have to be unplugged from your hard drive.  I then transferred the hard drive into a computer that it would run in.  This involved all the previous steps in reverse on the second computer.

Now, I had a computer that was running with my old hard drive and it was great because I did not lose my information like I would have if I needed a new drive.  My internet marketing business is now progressing.  I am now an author on Ezines and I have a personal web page and also a capture page for my business.  Part of my marketing education is watching webinars that have been recorded.  These are great - very informative.  Now I have a chance to participate in a live webinar.  All I have to do is be on-line with my headset at a time certain and........lightning knocked out my broadband connection and fried my ethernet socket on my computer and my router.  GREAT!

Down to the Best Buy we went and bought a network card.  It's actually called a PCI Network Card.  Once again, I pull all the plugs off the back of my computer and get ready to operate.  Off comes the side.  Fortunately, this computer has an empty slot to plug the network card into.  I plugged the new card into my computer and put everything back together.  It was supposed to be plug-and-play.  It wasn't.  It wanted to use the driver that was already in my computer for the burned out ethernet socket.  My next stop would be my device manager, where I disabled the old network adapter and then loaded the new drivers from the CD that came with the new card.  Success!  My internet was up and running.  I made it to my webinar with time to spare.

I now have my fingers crossed  and high hopes that my computer problems are at an end and I can continue building my internet marketing business.

By:  Lorraine Ballard