Got chrome loaded on the little laptop, figure i should start here first... no spell check yet, but i'm working on it.

Yup, I used to get that on my old pc until I changed the onboard battery.

Art, you know it isn't that hard.   what kind of computer is it, make and model -- then ask the internet how to open the case.

Heck, ask the internet how to change the bios battery, somebody has posted a you tube video showing you how.

On the surface of the board there is a round watch battery, about the size of a 50 cent piece.  Trick is generally there is another one right under it, sometimes a total of three stacked up but the last one is somewhat tough to get out as it is recessed down in the plastic.

Note how they went in, write yourself a little sketch, then carry one to the store to make sure they give you the right stuff.

Pop them in, then expect the machine to want you to redo the bios choices when you boot the machine.

Might want to visit the bios and make some notes on each entry before taking out the batteries.

Oldfeller--FSO wrote on 04/07/14 at 07:29:56:


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Art,

This is a choice you will have to make.  

We all realize now that you know practically nothing about a computer beyond typing on the keyboard.

Honestly, during the installation you are going to read some simple choices and you, Art, will have no basis on which to understand which simple choice to make.   Indeed I doubt you will even understand what some of the questions really mean, the implications that they have for how the machine would operate.

Unless you were to print off the help instructions and actually carefully read them and attempt to understand them, all you would do trying to install that software by yourself is bumble through it and create a new situation that you don't understand (and since nobody else was there with you when you did it they won't be able to help you after the fact).

Do you have any relatives that live nearby that would have responsible older teenage children?   Or younger adults?   Young people have absorbed a great deal through osmosis and can do things very easily that older people find difficult about computer stuff.

(plus it gives us old folks somebody else to blame when it all screws up).

In short Art, get some help.  Get someone who knows something about computers to help you install that disk.   Doing it by yourself would just result in more computer pain and suffering.


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Art bought a wifi only Chromebook intending to hook it up to a Time Warner cable modem with a USB cable.

There is a language to computers, and a basic knowledge of how they work that most of us have picked up on in the last 20 years.

Art hasn't.   His installation skill level puts him at the same level as my mother in law, who won't touch her machine for "fear of messing it up again".  I think my mother in law could maybe deal with using a chromebook, but she certainly couldn't set one up.  Grandma will use her ROKU, but she can't add a channel to it.

Art, I am afraid, needs to seek some assistance at this time.

No, you can try it.   Items involving passwords, keep them short.  And on the screen that offers you the chance to use automatic log in make sure you click that button.

Main thing is to go slow, read everything.  IF you don't understand, ask the question.

I think you think you know enough, problem is that if you are making any assumptions about anything, well we know what ASSuME does to us, right?

HEHEH.....start a new post...computer problem or some such... take pic's of your puter all sides... we could tell you how to crack the nut... and maybe help find your battery.

Also..if you keep having the bios error (low battery) and setting it to "default" to get it to boot, it means you shouldn't have much of a problem replacing your battery as you will have to reset it to default after the change.

Or do you have to do that? or is the error just letting you know the system battery is low?

Or find your model and look it up on a youtube video