I live in an area that suffers from power outages quite often. Even in ideal conditions we seem to lose power. So, you can only imagine the fun that is to be had when some nippledick in his rice burner wraps himself around a telephone pole just down the street (this happens about twice a year on average). So, as you might have guessed, I lose power often. It's annoying, frustrating, and it makes me want to slap a baby.
This last time, however, finally did more than just inconvenience me. I was on the computer at the moment when the power went out. The power flickered on and off abruptly a few times until finally staying out until a couple hours later. I turned my computer back on and imagine my surprise when no sound came from my speakers. Odd? Yeah. But, hey... it could have just been that Windows reassigned my default sound settings. Well... no, that didn't happen. After a few hours of investigation, it turns out that the main output port on my built in sound card is fried. Get that? The BUILT IN sound card is FRIED. This means it's rendered useless. Now I ask you; shouldn't I be able to hold the power company responsible for surging computer? Before you get on your soap-box and start preaching to me about using a surge protector, I DO! In fact, it's on a redundant surge protection line. PSE&G (our local power company) bills you EVERY month whether you have service the whole month or not, charges you extra for additional power used, and then destroys your shit and doesn't feel as though they are responsible for it. In this particular case, they ARE responsible. No one hit a telephone pole and no tree was felled onto power lines. They shut the power off intentionally thus popping my amplifier in my computer and frying my sound card.
So... Now I have to haul off to the store tomorrow and pick up PCI sound card so that I don't have to use my jimmy-rigged USB headset adapater as a sound card (although it works surprisingly well).
On top of that, I got to sit in the dark for 3 hours suffering from cabin fever.
Today was just shitty.
Sunday, October 26, 2008
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