I am still blown away (and asking God “why”)… with just how incompetent my mother is around computers. At times I swear she deliberately sabotaged her computer to ruin my life… yet, at the same time I also don’t. But, it still blows my mind of her failing to do something SO. FUCKING. SIMPLE!!!
So.. this happened yesterday evening. Said I was tired of constantly putting it off by watching Youtube videos of some guy fixing player-created cities in Cities Skylines, and I finally unplugged my computer to bring it out to our garage, to de-dust the thing in order to prep for the new parts. Now, our garage isn’t attached to the house. Infact it’s another building (but still on our property).
Everything went as planned (my computer was extremely dusty, as expected) until mother showed up, asking why didn’t I let them know. Told her that I was going to, but at the time my parents were talking to a friend of theirs, and I didn’t want to disturb their conversation. As I’m de-dusting, I ask her if she could unplug and bring in her
computer (so I can dust it out too, to get it ready for the new parts that’ll come out of my system). See, I was planning to do the upgrade after I got done.
She questioned my ‘insanity’, but I felt she could do this. Surely she can’t fuck up something so simple as unplugging her computer, RIGHT?! Plus at the time, I had the main garage door open, and I couldn’t leave to do it myself. It took 15 minutes until she finally brought her computer in, and hers isn’t anywhere as dusty as mine was (but I used the air compressor on it anyway).
After I finally had both done, I took hers in first and then took mine in. Placed mine on my bed and then went back for hers to get her back up and running.
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Plugged everything in and turned it on. Went through POST! Awesome! I didn’t damage anything! Got her into Windows, only expecting to make sure I plugged in the 3.5mm plug for her speakers in the right port. No sound, but I also saw she has no internet connection. Odd. Did the Ethernet cable pop out when I put her computer back in place? Tilted her computer forward to ensure this, and the cable is still plugged in.. oshi–. Ran the troubleshooter: “please insert an Ethernet cable” it tells me. Lovely! Her computer’s not detecting the cable!
She tells me she was yanking on the cords, not knowing what to do. …Seriously?! You fucked up something. so. SIMPLE!?!?
YOU NEED TO GO TO THAT SCHOOL!! FFS!! I’m not even kidding! You damaged your motherboard, all because you didn’t know how to even fucking unplug cables on the back of your computer!!! Y U DUMB?!
Yet, apparently, this is my fault (according to my parents). Okay, I will take some of the blame, for even trusting you INFRONT OF A FUCKING COMPUTER!! …WHY, God?! WHY?! WHY couldn’t I had been born with parents that knew how computers work?!
I was going, to upgrade, my computer.. but now I can’t do it, as she has to use mine to check her damn bills! I’m too fucking stressed out to think right now! I feel like, when I finally pick a day that I do, she’s going to yell at me for not having it ready for her!
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On top of that, there’s a problem. Sure, I could fix her issue by giving her my
hardware (since I tested that Ethernet cable, and there’s nothing wrong with it). But as I was de-dusting her computer, I noticed her motherboard. ..It’s a mini-ATX. So, either she has to buy a new case, or I do (and give her mine) to accept my full-sized ATX board.
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But guess what?? Today, neither of us are going to be buying anything we want for the rest of the month, as she fucked up on her bills and was very much in the red, and I thankfully managed to bail her out. But by doing so, I barely have enough for groceries and the bill at the end of the month!
So, have to wait for next month, then I’ll buy a case for me and give her mine. Yet, is it really worth it? I could just buy a cheap case with decent airflow (that supports ATX). Looked in the garage with mother for a custom case (one that I can take out the board and have an empty cavity where the I/O Shield would be), but could find nothing.
FML. Semi-screwed yesterday, then fully screwed today!