Fixed!

Oh man. After something like three weeks of not thinking about my computer being broken, I tried to get the computer people at Dell and at the Computer Help desk to help me, and then somehow my computer ended up fixing itself. Let me just say, I sorta want to punch the people at the computer help desk in the face. They totally were not helpful. I ended up carrying my computer all the way from plimpton to the barnard library to get their help, because no one called me to say they would come to my room. Then when I was there, I don't think I got proper help. They connected my computer to one old, shady looking monitor and pronounced within five seconds that I have a hardware problem and they can't help me. They don't try to connect my computer to another screen. They don't ask me to connect my mouse and keyboard to my computer to see if they turn it off and turn it on again if it won't make a funny noise. They don't ask why I think my monitor was broken (it has a pin missing in the plug that connects to the computer). ARG. Then I decided to not trust my opinion that they were being stupid and unhelpful, and listen to them and call Dell. So I call an 1-800 number to Dell technical support, and during the course of my phone call I decide to make sure the hard drive light isn't on when I turn on my computer, you know, to make sure I'm not dialing through endless phone menus only to find Dell can't help me. And I notice 1) my mouse and keyboard are connected and the computer doesn't beep when turned on and 2) the hard drive light is on. Though it flashes, it's still on. So I hang up with Dell, call the help desk and try and get her to get someone to come check out my computer. She ignores my thought that those that helped me didn't properly look at my computer and tells me to call Dell. Frustrated, I decide to go to the computer lab, to go on the Dell website. There I notice the hard drive lights behaving exactly how the light on my computer is working. So I drag my screen down to the lab and connect it to a computer (which I should've done in the first place, but at that point I thought I'd better wait until an RCA came to suggest the idea of messing with the lab computers) My screen works. Weirded out, I come back to my room, connect my screen to my computer, and lo and behold, it's working. I don't know how it works now when I SWEAR it wasn't turning on a few weeks ago, but I do know that I'm really annoyed with the computer help desk. Seriously.