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I recently had a computer death in the household.
I’ve been lucky enough to never have a computer outright crash on me, and I should feel lucky that it happened at this time in my life. Do malfunctions like these ever come with any type of warning? Even cars act like shit before you get the diagnosis of “head is cracked” or “blown rod.” Car killing diagnoses where the repairs would equal to a nice down payment on a new vehicle. Automotive heaven after that.
So I went to turn on my computer one day and heard a beed-a-beep-beep. A little flashing light on the front of the computer. The mouse wasn’t moving that well so I went to Target to buy a new one. That one didn’t work so well either, so I took it to my webmaster to see if he could fix it. He pronounced its death. “It involves the motherboard.”
He let me borrow a computer for a week before I could go shopping for a new one. It’s funny how I spent basically the same amount on this computer yesterday as I did for my very first in 1999 with this one being literally 100 times more powerful. I don’t remember the specifics of that first unit, but I had something like 4-8GB of storage space if I was lucky. The new one has 640GB. Plus, I bought a 500GB external hard drive.
This new unit has Windows Vista. People poo poo Windows but it is what it is. Vista - very nice interface and more modern looking but a bit convoluted so far. It seems to allow a download of Firefox or Gmail Notifier, but doesn’t show me where it is stored or if the download was even successful, yet doesn’t tell me it has failed.
My keyboard and mouse are wireless which is cool. My last computer was four years old so it didn’t have these capabilities.
July 11th, 2007 at 7:50
Man, that always sucks. Did you lose the harddrive, too?
July 11th, 2007 at 9:45
My webmaster ws able to recover most of my hard drive stuff somehow. Thank God.
Windows Vista - haven’t figured out how to download shit with it.
July 11th, 2007 at 11:10
No need to download shit - it is shit. (imho).
July 11th, 2007 at 12:29
yay on your new computer with the wireless mouse.
boo hiss on your old one dying.
my computer died recently too and I was more upset over possibly losing all my pictures and not so much about the computer.
*If you’ve ever read my blog you know I LOVE pictures. If you haven’t, well, I do. I take a lot. Probably too many.
Luckily they were able to recover them.
July 17th, 2007 at 8:21
“Aw, hell no dog…”
HELP computer- Stop all the downloading!
July 27th, 2007 at 14:12
While it always sucks to lose a PC, it’s good you didn’t lose all your data. Poor Ken lost everything when his bit the bullet last.
I’m running Vista on a system at work, and I love it. Once you get to figure out some of the new interface quirks you’re gonna find it works much faster and is way more intuitive.
Now all you need are multiple monitors like Ken and I! Come on Sonic…join us!!