I hate computers

Sep 19, 2009 14:03

I hate computers. At least I hate mine. The amount of time, energy and nerves this piece of crap had cost me the last few months just isn't funny anymore.

A chronology of horrors:

- for several months already the display if flickering like crazy. It's hurting my eyes, and changing the monitor doesn't help either. It's some kind of problem with the graphics card. At first it was only the first few minutes after switching it on. Now it's permanent and I have to switch to a lower resolution to make it bearable. And I still wonder why I'm becoming increasingly short-sighted?
- it crashes all the time for no apparent reason at all.
- For about half a year, out of 3 components (TV card, sound card network card) only 2 work simultanously. It sounds crazy but it's true. This gives me 3 options: Internet + sound, but no TV (which is what I'm using now), Tv + sound, but no internet (which I installed as 2nd hardware profile, so I have to restart to use it and then restart again, when I want to go online again), and TV + Internet, but no sound (which is entirely useless, unless I watch silent movies).
- Since a few weeks, my computer isn't recognizing 2 out of 3 external HDs anymore. It's not a problem of the hard drives, they're fine, it's my computer. Of course one of them has all my music, which I miss dearly. I just slavaged a tiny portion of it unto the third and oldest HD, which is still working, via a friend's computer.
- I got some nasty malware recently. Well, that's my fault of course. When my HD stopped working, I thought it was a disc failure and I became careless when pirating some data rescue programmes, trying to get my data back. A took me a week to get rid of all the nasty stuff.
- Firefox is crashing permanently.

And now, the highlight. Yesterday, windows stopped working alltogether. It did start and all that, and then it would just stop and shut down again to the log-in screen. And again and again. Safe mode, system restore, even re-installing windows wouldn't help. The only option was to reformat C: and make a fresh install. But there is too much important data on that drive, so I removed it from my computer and replaced it with some old 20GB-HD I had lying around, reinstalled windows there and the most important programmes, which took me a whole day.

On the bright side: with a fresh windows the computer is fast again, and firefox no longer crashing. The display is still flickering though and it still doesn't regognize most of my external hard drives, including my old internal drive when installed as external, so until I can salvage the data via another PC, I'm without my data, setting, bookmarks, passwords etc. Sigh.

If all goes well, I should be able to buy a new comp in November. I can't wait, seriously. Any more with this old piece of shit, and I'm going crazy.
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