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myurbandreamthe curse holds true. i have killed another computer.
on saturday my very shiny and beautiful laptop, hoffie, which i bought brand new in february, decided that he did not want to turn on. i had him running just fine on my desk at home, turned him off just like normal to take to school to do homework, and twenty minutes later i plugged him in at my drafting table at the college and hit the power button, and... nothing. DED.
when i hit the power button, hoffie obviously was trying to start - the "running lights" came on, the fan whirred, the hard drive clicked... and then, after about five seconds, he died. and then he'd try again. and die.
hoffnung auf zukunft ist tot.
so i was, y'know, minorly freaked out by this; i took him home for some tlc from jim, who had to go to work soon and couldn't diagnose really what was going on. in a panic, i took hoffie to best buy (where i bought him originally), sans receipt b/c i couldn't find it although i know i kept it, and had the geek squad take a look at him. i was really terrified that i wouldn't be able to get any of my data off of hoffie's hard drive, and when the guy in best buy looked at everything, his firt impression was that there was a physical problem with the hard drive, which would mean that all my data was toast. i just about broke down and cried right there. HOWEVER, on further inspection, chris (the geek squad dude) discovered that my hard drive was, in fact, just fine, and the problem was in the laptop hardware itself - mainframe or power system or some such, he couldn't tell by looking. so i paid $99.99 to get all the data off of my hard drive and they packaged it up to send to gateway, since it's still under the manufacturer's warranty.
(that was a whole other bundle of joy, btw. remember how i couldn't find my receipt? well, apparently, despite the fact that hoffie was manufactured last december, i couldn't apply the one-year manufacturer's warranty without my receipt to prove that i'd bought him in february of this year. wtf. so they searched their system for my new cell phone number, and my old phone number, and jim's phone number, and my full name, and they couldn't find a record of my purchase. so then i had to call jim and get him to look up the card number of my old debit card that i used to buy the computer, and then call best buy's records company to get them to look up my card transaction. but i did finally get a copy of my receipt. buggers.)
and then when i got home, my neighbor jared explained that he has a hard drive reader cable and could have got all the data off of my hard drive for free. fml.
and then, saturday night when i was going through the back-up of hoffie's hard drive that i paid $99 for, to do my homework, i realized that they didn't copy everything over. i was about ready to kill something by that point. so sunday morning i went back and made them unbox my laptop and plug everything back in and check that every folder was copied onto my external.
(come to think of it, my external hard drive has never been named, and has served me faithfully for several years now. hmmm....)
thus begins a three-week stint of late hours in the computer lab and the library on campus. bugger all.
on saturday my very shiny and beautiful laptop, hoffie, which i bought brand new in february, decided that he did not want to turn on. i had him running just fine on my desk at home, turned him off just like normal to take to school to do homework, and twenty minutes later i plugged him in at my drafting table at the college and hit the power button, and... nothing. DED.
when i hit the power button, hoffie obviously was trying to start - the "running lights" came on, the fan whirred, the hard drive clicked... and then, after about five seconds, he died. and then he'd try again. and die.
hoffnung auf zukunft ist tot.
so i was, y'know, minorly freaked out by this; i took him home for some tlc from jim, who had to go to work soon and couldn't diagnose really what was going on. in a panic, i took hoffie to best buy (where i bought him originally), sans receipt b/c i couldn't find it although i know i kept it, and had the geek squad take a look at him. i was really terrified that i wouldn't be able to get any of my data off of hoffie's hard drive, and when the guy in best buy looked at everything, his firt impression was that there was a physical problem with the hard drive, which would mean that all my data was toast. i just about broke down and cried right there. HOWEVER, on further inspection, chris (the geek squad dude) discovered that my hard drive was, in fact, just fine, and the problem was in the laptop hardware itself - mainframe or power system or some such, he couldn't tell by looking. so i paid $99.99 to get all the data off of my hard drive and they packaged it up to send to gateway, since it's still under the manufacturer's warranty.
(that was a whole other bundle of joy, btw. remember how i couldn't find my receipt? well, apparently, despite the fact that hoffie was manufactured last december, i couldn't apply the one-year manufacturer's warranty without my receipt to prove that i'd bought him in february of this year. wtf. so they searched their system for my new cell phone number, and my old phone number, and jim's phone number, and my full name, and they couldn't find a record of my purchase. so then i had to call jim and get him to look up the card number of my old debit card that i used to buy the computer, and then call best buy's records company to get them to look up my card transaction. but i did finally get a copy of my receipt. buggers.)
and then when i got home, my neighbor jared explained that he has a hard drive reader cable and could have got all the data off of my hard drive for free. fml.
and then, saturday night when i was going through the back-up of hoffie's hard drive that i paid $99 for, to do my homework, i realized that they didn't copy everything over. i was about ready to kill something by that point. so sunday morning i went back and made them unbox my laptop and plug everything back in and check that every folder was copied onto my external.
(come to think of it, my external hard drive has never been named, and has served me faithfully for several years now. hmmm....)
thus begins a three-week stint of late hours in the computer lab and the library on campus. bugger all.
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Date: 2009-10-13 01:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-10-13 02:29 am (UTC)mostly i'm just frustrated that i can't seem to keep a computer for more than a year without irreparably breaking it. >___<*
soooooo.... got any good recent star wars fic to cheer me up? *grins* i miss my obi-wan.
I know ... I want mine to boot up forever. It's been four years and I quiver, dreading its loss.
Date: 2009-10-13 05:11 am (UTC)Fire and Ice by Yesac entertained me and for something shorter,
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5034435/1/
The Twilight of My Uncertainty by Ticklesivory
Re: I know ... I want mine to boot up forever. It's been four years and I quiver, dreading its loss
Date: 2009-10-13 06:43 am (UTC)so, i just got these and now i have to go to sleep, because i have class in... six hours. *sadface* but i read a couple paragraphs of that first one already, cause i have no self-control like that. thanks for the links!! ^___^ you totally made my... really-early-morning. yay!
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Date: 2009-10-13 02:34 am (UTC)But it all turned out okay, yeah?
ME
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Date: 2009-10-13 03:18 am (UTC)*feels disgruntled*
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Date: 2009-10-13 05:52 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-10-13 06:29 am (UTC)but yeah, i think i'm going to try not naming the next major piece of hardware i get. marshy seems to be just fine, tho', so really i think it's just a curse on all computers, that's all. T__T
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Date: 2009-10-13 02:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-10-13 02:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-10-13 02:15 pm (UTC)being bored means you aren't busy enough, sav. ^__^ look at me - i think "ridiculously busy" is pro'ly a better term for how not-bored i am right now. *grins*
i oughta go do homework right now, as a matter of fact. ttyl!