As of today, we have been traveling and living in our motorhome or four months. One time since we weighed anchor on this our maiden voyage, Phil took the desktop computer, (built by cousin, Randy) apart and cleaned it thoroughly. We believed it had started the annoying glitch of shutting down after running just a few minutes because it had collected a significant amount of dust inside the case. But, as it turned out, after cleaning we still had the same problem. Eventually, through the process of elimination, we figured out it was a malfunctioning GFI receptacle that was tripping the circuit and had to be replaced. Oh well, we had a nice clean computer and it has run flawlessly until a couple days ago. So, we’re going to try that again only this time, it’s the USB ports that won’t work. We’ve lost our printer connection, our ability to download pictures from the digital camera and our cordless mouse link bringing us to the conclusion … the USB port is either dirty or broken. If cleaning doesn’t fix the problem, then we may get our first lesson in replacing a part on the computer, after receiving a crash course in computer hardware 101 from Randy, of course. Unfortunately, there will be no new pictures for the blog until we solve our dilemma. I’ll keep you posted.
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