I hate technology
I mentioned this briefly on tumblr yesterday, but I'm having computer problems and things are now looking a bit more serious. On Saturday, my computer started not booting up probably. At first, my computer started "clicking" and the computer would just hum and fail to get even to the first splash screen. At this stage, it would sometimes randomly boot up (but skip lots of the first screens like GRUB a bootuploader) and I could get into ubuntu but not windows. I then tested all my computer parts (harddrive, graphics card etc) so the good news is that they seem to be working fine. Now however the problem is worse and it never boots up and after the clicking there are added long beeps.
Fortunately these beeps led me to find out what the problem is. I'm now 98% certain it is corrupted BIOS. I tried to reset the BIOS, but this didn't have any effect, so after googling some more I found this a really common problem with Acers. I now have two options:
a) although I tried resetting the BIOS, apparently this isn't enough and there are more (really complicated) steps to get the BIOS back to the default settings. I don't know if I could really manage this by myself.
b) buy a new motherboard. It might just be easier to just replace motherboard, but only if I can find the same model, because apparently if I get a newer generation motherboard it won't be compatible with my other parts (processor, graphics card etc) and I don't think I can afford to replace everything. =\
So basically this all means that I can't access anything on my computer and of course no sims. I'm hoping it won't take me too long to fix this, now I know what the problem is, but I just want to give everyone the heads up as if things don't go according to plan, it could take me a while.. I hope I can work things out though. (Also I really hate the mobile tumblr app ugh).
Fortunately these beeps led me to find out what the problem is. I'm now 98% certain it is corrupted BIOS. I tried to reset the BIOS, but this didn't have any effect, so after googling some more I found this a really common problem with Acers. I now have two options:
a) although I tried resetting the BIOS, apparently this isn't enough and there are more (really complicated) steps to get the BIOS back to the default settings. I don't know if I could really manage this by myself.
b) buy a new motherboard. It might just be easier to just replace motherboard, but only if I can find the same model, because apparently if I get a newer generation motherboard it won't be compatible with my other parts (processor, graphics card etc) and I don't think I can afford to replace everything. =\
So basically this all means that I can't access anything on my computer and of course no sims. I'm hoping it won't take me too long to fix this, now I know what the problem is, but I just want to give everyone the heads up as if things don't go according to plan, it could take me a while.. I hope I can work things out though. (Also I really hate the mobile tumblr app ugh).