<strong>Your Name: Patrick Collins</strong>

<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2012/11/16

<strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong>  W  F

<strong>Total hours for week: 7</strong>

<strong>The School:
</strong><em>Ray</em>

<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> Tech general

<strong>Main Report or Narrative: </strong>

This week was frustrating.
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	<li>Monday: No school at Ray, didn't work.</li>
	<li>Wednesday: Spent 4 hours working on one machine that booted up okay but went to a BSOD rather than staring Windows. I was able to boot up other computers off the same HD, and the MS knowledge base suggested that it was a driver issue. I spent quite a while with this hard drive hooked up to another computer installing new drivers. Ultimately, all I accomplished was getting windows to give me a different error code.</li>
	<li>Friday: Switched out the HD on the computer of death for a different one, still had issues. I gave up, stripped it of RAM and its HD and threw it away. I did some impromptu tech suppot for a teacher who wanted to use the owl monitor control thing to send a link to her students. Ultimately I had to make a posting on her blog so the students could get to the google doc survey. I started testing another computer, which booted up okay once, then crashed, then told me nfts.sys was dead and I needed to repair the OS. I found an OS repair disk and put it in, but the machine refused to recognize its CD drive. After playing around with different CD drives for a little while, the computer decided that it didn't want to start up any more. It does nothing and has a solid yellow light. Dell tells me that this means</li>
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<strong>My regular schedule at this school has changed, to become: ____</strong>

<strong>(Optional) Thought for the week:</strong> (Would you care to share an aphorism, proverb, quip, epigram, “…Not!” gotcha, overheard remark, excerpt, brief lyric, stanza, or quotation?)

<strong>(Optional) What’s playing now?:</strong>

<strong>(Optional) What’s been good to read lately?:</strong>

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