Computer Returned and Online
Sep. 24th, 2024 05:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kevin_standleeToday, I got my Dell D7 laptop back from repairs. They replaced the following:
After first testing that the computer would boot properly when not connected to anything including ground power, I cleaned up the area around where it sits on my desk (lots of vacuuming), reconnected everything, and started things up. Everything worked, aside from a few minor things that needed tweaking. There were a whole lot of updates to install on account of the machine having been offline for weeks. I moved my Quicken files back to my personal machine (that took quite a while). Then it was time to start working on the project backlog.
The 2024 Saturday WSFS Business Meeting uploaded to my account (not the official version created by the Business Meeting, but Lisa's recording) has had a strange glitch in it that caused the audio and video to get out of sync around 1h 17m. I launched Adobe Premiere and brought up the original file, which merges the nine original files. The glitch isn't in the original. I can't figure out why it happened in the first place. All I could do was generate a new "version 2" of the Saturday meeting, which took several hours. The source files total 25.7 GB. The compiled file is only 5.4 GB.
The compiled file doesn't have the glitch in it, so I uploaded it to my YouTube channel. As I write this, it says that it will be several hours before it finishes processing the uploaded file. Even with my decent upload speed (around 20 mbps), it takes a long time to upload these files, and large files like this require lots of processing time by YouTube. If you subscribe to my YouTube Channel, you can get notified when new files, including this Saturday Version 2 file, is live.
Tomorrow, we'll find out if Version 2 doesn't have the glitch. If it does not, then I can move on to the last of the editing jobs of the 2024 Business Meeting, which is combining the eight segments of the Monday Meeting into a single file, which again will be much smaller than the individual files off the camera. Once again, this won't happen quickly; however, I will post when the file is live on YouTube.
- Battery (cost extra because it's not a warranty item)
- Fan (which was the original issue)
- Heatsink (probably a good idea given how hot the machine was getting)
- Palmrest (including the touchpad, which had been pushed out of shape by the swollen battery)
After first testing that the computer would boot properly when not connected to anything including ground power, I cleaned up the area around where it sits on my desk (lots of vacuuming), reconnected everything, and started things up. Everything worked, aside from a few minor things that needed tweaking. There were a whole lot of updates to install on account of the machine having been offline for weeks. I moved my Quicken files back to my personal machine (that took quite a while). Then it was time to start working on the project backlog.
The 2024 Saturday WSFS Business Meeting uploaded to my account (not the official version created by the Business Meeting, but Lisa's recording) has had a strange glitch in it that caused the audio and video to get out of sync around 1h 17m. I launched Adobe Premiere and brought up the original file, which merges the nine original files. The glitch isn't in the original. I can't figure out why it happened in the first place. All I could do was generate a new "version 2" of the Saturday meeting, which took several hours. The source files total 25.7 GB. The compiled file is only 5.4 GB.
The compiled file doesn't have the glitch in it, so I uploaded it to my YouTube channel. As I write this, it says that it will be several hours before it finishes processing the uploaded file. Even with my decent upload speed (around 20 mbps), it takes a long time to upload these files, and large files like this require lots of processing time by YouTube. If you subscribe to my YouTube Channel, you can get notified when new files, including this Saturday Version 2 file, is live.
Tomorrow, we'll find out if Version 2 doesn't have the glitch. If it does not, then I can move on to the last of the editing jobs of the 2024 Business Meeting, which is combining the eight segments of the Monday Meeting into a single file, which again will be much smaller than the individual files off the camera. Once again, this won't happen quickly; however, I will post when the file is live on YouTube.
