When I went to bed last night, my computer was fine. Beautiful, in fact. It was a happy computer.
When I woke up this morning, it was sad. It had become depressed sometime over the course of the night, and attempted suicide. Whether or not it was successful is yet to be determined. Here's what happened:
When I woke up and stumbled into my living room, I turned on my laptop, and then wandered away to complete the rest of my morning routine. When I returned to my beloved toy, I discovered that although the power was on, nothing else was. The screen was black. The computer wasn't loading, nor would it turn off. It also wouldn't load the restore disk.
I need my computer. I need my Office Suite, which I can't install on Randy's laptop because it eats too much space. I suppose I could have used Randy's for the online course components, but my mind has that awful glitch that won't let me focus on anything else when something is wrong, especially something as wrong as my laptop's black screen of death. I decided to go to Circuit City to buy a new one. Extravagant, I know, and I wasn't happy about it. Was I giving in to the urge to buy something new just to have something new even though it wasn't technically necessary? To offset the guilt, I brought along my broken laptop to see if they could fix it quickly so I wouldn't have to buy a new one. Off I went.
When I brought in my laptop, it was hot. Very hot. I paid them to run a diagnostic, but it won't be completed for a couple of days. They're not even sure it can be salvaged due to heat damage. A new laptop it is, then. "If they can fix my laptop, I'll just give it to my brother, who wants a laptop but can't afford one," I thought. One of the tech guys was excited to work on my old one. It seems the store's heat went out yesterday and, though it had been restored, he was still feeling chilled. My computer had just become his hand-warmer.
I now own an HP G60-120US Notebook PC.
And, if the old one can't be fixed, the tech guy now has a space heater.
John- That wasn't me. I recently had to buy a new router (so glad I did... the signal on this one is much stronger!), but I haven't had to buy a new computer for awhile. The other was only 2 years old. It wasn't Vista that caused the problem; it was mechanical. It overheated, we're just not sure why. It seems to me that it's always run hot, though. I guess it was just a fault in the computer.
Ralph
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