One of the main things I have been learning more of the last several months is love and patience. Patience being a characteristic of love has come in play with one certain situation. Back in April I purchased a new laptop off ebay for a very good price (I recommend only to buy a second hand one off ebay). The first laptop i had was fine, but had a little audio problem, something that I could of lived with. But it being new and under warranty and going overseas I thought I should get it sorted. In my last week of being in Australia i received another laptop exchanged for the previous.
I had no idea what would be installed with this one, but it had video hardware issues. It would freeze, bluescreen, hang, everything, mainly during multimedia functions. Hence for that reason I brought this model. Over the next four months I tried to do what I can troubleshooting the problem and resolving it. The seller sent me new RAM to try and resolve the problem, as this is the common fix.(it took over two months to recieve). But I did every thing possible to resolve the problem if it was software related, even though I knew it was hardware. The whole five months I was in communication with the seller. Back in September I had run out of options, except to install XP onto it. So I sent the laptop back to Sydney, Australia, which wasn’t too straight forward. I went without the laptop for over a month, even though it was a faulty one. And I received it back last week, same laptop. The hardware issue seems to be resolved, but the software issue can still come back to bite me at times. It is fixed, but it isn’t. So I may convert back to XP, even though I should be able to run Vista. I am grateful that I have this laptop and that it made it back to Mt Hagen, I will have to make do with it for now. But anyway, this has just been one of many situations where my patience has been tested and growing in.
