Extremely annoyed

[heliona]

Why, well, lat night I recorded Chapter One of my Harry Potter fic, Wood & Wild, onto my computer. Then this morning, I was planning on recording the title music from Chamber of Secrets to play over the beginning of my reading. All very cunning, right? Well, whilst experimenting a few days ago with recording stuff from tape onto computer, I discovered that I could plug in my stereo to my computer using the line-in with a cable that I've got to connect my portable CD player to a littl hi-fi. (You with me so far?)

Okay, so I thought that I'd try the same thing with my television, since it has a headphones output, and that would save me having to hold the microphone next to speaker. So, I plug it in, and my computer makes this horrible, buzzing noise, and Audicity refuses to work. So, I think, okay, maybe the computer just didn't start up right, so I restart it.

Or, at least, I try to. It freezes on me. And I mean completely. There's the light to show that there's power but nothing I do changes anything. I hold down the power key, nope, nothing. Ctrl+Alt+Delete = nothing. Eventually, I unplug it and take the battery out. Then I put the battery back in, and everything's hunky-dory (I can tell you, I breathed a sigh of relief at that, since *everything* is on that computer, and I don't have backups.) until Windows opens.

Now, my sound scheme is (or I should was) a Harry Potter one, and it should say "Welcome to Hogwarts" when it opens up. Well, it tried, but there was a huge amount of noise and the quality was crap. I only understood what it was saying because I knew what it was meant to sound like. I tried changing the output (because for some reason, it was set to headphones, instead of laptop speakers) but it made no difference. I tried playing music - nope, still the same noise and distortion. It was exactly the same when I put the headphones in.

So, on thinking about, I'm guessing that I overloaded the speaker system when I plugged it into the tv, although I don't really know how. I mean, assuming that it works exactly the same my stereo system, the volume wasn't that high.

And Audicity isn't working anymore. I press record and, instead of the line moving with respect to time, it just jitters in one spot.

So, I think, great, wonderful. This now means that until it's fixed (or God forbid, I get a new computer, which, seeing as mine is less than a year old, I don't really want to do, especially since I can't really afford it!) I can't watch any videos, listen to any music, and all my recording ideas have to be put on hold. (Unless, by some miracle, I get home and it's all sorted. That has happened in the past, although I have extremely had luck when it comes to sound cards.)

So, I'm wandering about the flat at a loose end, since I was going to finish my report today (I only have about 2 pages left to do), and I want to leave my computer alone for a while. And, despite the fact that it's Easter Sunday, there is *nothing* on the tv! (Although, I don't have a TV guide at the moment, but still.)

Eventually, I decided I had to get away from the flat for a while. So, that means coming to uni and getting Internet therapy. Of course, I haven't taken 5 steps outside when it starts raining! Oh joy!

The only good thing about the whole escapade is that the rest of the computer is working fine and I haven't lost anything. What's weird is that I was thinking last night when I'd gone to bed that I should save some stuff to CD, since my computer's been slowing down. :(

I don't actually have anything good to say at the moment, I'm severly depressed about my computer.

Although, I did get some great reviews for my fic! *g*

Comments

[loriel-eris.livejournal.com]

Oh no! That sounds like a positively horrible start to the day. Tho, touch wood you'll go home and it'll be fine - I told you about my computer's altitude sickness, didn't I? It got AS again yesterday - the net was working downstairs but not om my computer. So, in desperation, I unplugged everything from the back of the processor, then plugged it all back in switched the computer on and it connected to the net first time... If my computer can get altitude sickness and be cured, Doyle'll be fine.

(Tho I will say that nimoloth had overload issues when she did this, but I think that her's was more because she had hardwired the cable directly onto the processor (rather than use the line in port).)

I'm reduced to about 6GB of storage - it's all the eps of 24 that I haven't got round to putting on CD yet.

That reminds me - I need a favour. You know how I d/l Easy CD Creator, well, I tried burning it to CD. The first time I f*ed up and just copied the file I had d/led to CD. The second time when I tried to 'Burn Image' to CD I crashed the computer. I haven't tried again yet. But if I do and it once more fails miserably, would you try doing it for me? Maybe something as different as simple as a different CD writer program would work. *shrugs* I should be in Uni as of tomorrow. So I'll bring it with me if I don't get it to work.

[heliona.livejournal.com]

Yeah, sure. If Doyle's still not working, I won't be able to listen to it, but I should be able to burn it fine! *g*

[nimoloth.livejournal.com]

Yeah, we took the wires that went from the radio/tape/record player into the speakers and put them into the back of the computer somewhere. We didn'e do any damage, but my boyfriend of the time who knows computers like the back of his hand freaked and was amazed we hadn't totally melted anything. Should be OK froma headphone output though (to a full size machine anyway, maybe not a laptop). Maybe you shoul dre-install the sound card drivers, althogh if the speakers are damaged it won't make a blind bit of difference.

[heliona.livejournal.com]

Maybe you shoul dre-install the sound card drivers

I'd reinstall them if I could find the stupid CD. It's in a safe place, and thus I have no idea where it is! *g*

[nimoloth.livejournal.com]

How many times have we done that?! Tonight we can't find our Win XP disc, which we'll need soon anyway for a re-format.

[heliona.livejournal.com]

I'm so good at doing it! I found out that I couldn't find it when I wanted to update my Office 2000 stuff, because I discovered that Word didn't have Equation Editor. Since I can't find the disk, it means that any time I want to add equations into my report, I've had to come into uni to do it! Grrr!

Still, I'm hoping I'll find them when I start to pack (fingers crossed!).