2TB!

Aug 03, 2010 21:05


The increasingly frequent high pitch whining whirring sound coming from both my desk top and external HD coupled with the fact that every time the computer shut down it took nearly an hour to boot up again was a sign that a massive disaster was in the making. So Saturday armed with a specs list compiled by Kin Yan, an email by Seng and my DVD burner salvaged from my computer for reuse, I braved Low Yat by myself to get a new computer.  The shop guy assured me I could get my computer with the required specs at a lower price then estimated in my list.

Everything went along pretty smoothly probably because as the shop guy was explaining things to me and going "understand" I just told him "No but keep going anyway". We did have a bit of disagreement when I insisted that I wanted 2TB of HD space and he insisted 1TB was enough I could always add it on later. I was like "I'm to lazy to bother about fixing another one in later just put in another TB!!". Once we had settled all the specs he told me it would take a couple of hours to assemble everything so I wandered off to Sg Wang.

As I was hanging out at the anime shop in Sg Wang I got a call from the computer shop "Ms Lim can you please come back we have encountered a problem". I went dashing back to Low Yat only to find out the problem was my old dvd burner could not be connected to the new mother board because it was to old, it was IDE and the motherboard was Sata *waves hand*. One of the other shop guys told me "we look for another motherboard that has sata and IDE" and opened up one and was telling me that that one IDE and his other colleague came over and they started having a very lively discussion in front of me about whether the motherboard actually IDE or not... I was like "stop stop!! How much is a new dvd burner" when I was told that it
would only costs RM66 for a new burner I was like "God just put in a new one, you could have told me this over the phone instead of making me come all the way here!!". I mean come on... when you hear "we have encountered a problem" you don't expect one that can be solved so easily...

After everything had been fixed, I lugged the CPU from Low Yat to Lot 10... boy that thing was heavy!! Any fool who stood in my way was probably going to get flatten so I had 0 maneuvering ability. Once I got the computer home, transferred everything from the external HD over, the plan was then to hook the old computer back up, transfer everything over to the external HD and from there into the new computer.


That's when disaster struck... the old computer refused to boot. Not only did it refuse to boot it made a high pitched siren type sound... so there I was fiddling with the innards of the computer trying to figure out what was wrong when I jammed my finger into the computer fan gah! I should be grateful the damn thing was made from plastic I suppose. That's about when I gave it a couple of solid punches and gave up.

On Sunday, Hon Yau kindly came over to my place and miracles of miracles he managed to get the old computer to boot up. First what we did was hook the old dvd burner back to the computer, when in doubt apparently the rule is to return everything back to its 'original' condition =p It still didn't work and we figured the best bet was to remove the external HD and hook it up to my new computer.

The mission of getting the old computer to boot up became a do or die mission when we discovered that my new computer didn't have the suitable ports, wires, whatchacallem to connect the old HD the new computer. So Hon Yau yanked out stuff, re-plug in stuff and we left for an  hour and it after that voila it booted up! I immediately moved copied everything out and just in the nick of time as I was shutting it down, the siren like sound came on again... Phew... computer disaster of astronomical disaster averted!!

So now I'm sitting pretty with my new computer with 2TB of space, let the fun begin!

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