I appear to have just successfully installed the USB card without Blade’s supervision. Opened the tower, took out the cover plate, snapped it into the motherboard, screwed it in, closed the box up, plugged everything back in. Turned it on.
Nothing has blown up yet. (He’d be the first to know, really, as my office is right under his bedroom.) Windows even recognized it as new hardware, identified it correctly, found the drivers, and everything.
I plugged the external hard drive into it. The computer sees it as a valid drive and I can move things back and forth. It’s even a 2.0 USB card, so things move faster than before.
Huh.
Maybe I should buy a lottery ticket or something.
(Thanks Jan! You have made my life ever so much easier!)
Huzzah!
I wish *I* had a Blade around so that I could stop tearing out my hair over this stupid wireless router. :P
(Although I do note that you did this Bladeless: go you!)
Blade can travel as needed, but wireless routers are also the bane of my existence, as evidenced by the fact the Liam believes I live in the walls ever since we dropped the patch cable from the top floor to the basement.
LOL, He still knocks on the bathroom access door in mine and Ar’s room, and calls your name.
HRH
Woohoo!
I may take you up on that (not in the next ten days, though, ’cause work is shaping up to be insane) and will provide whiskey and other booze as needed to help smooth the process. ;)