My PC Crapped Out
Originally published at Morbid Romantic. You can comment here or there.
Yes, just a few weeks after reformatting my PC, cleaning it out and spending hours filling it up with all of the stuff I need and love, it decided to stop working. All of that work for nothing! Let me tell you what happened…
I turned it on because there was some stuff that I wanted to transfer over. Everything was normal, it started up like it always does. Except, there was this funny burning smell. A definite electronic smell, but nothing too strong that I was concerned. It really wasn’t so much that something was burning but that it was really hot. I have smelled it before and nothing life shattering has happened, so I figured that this was pretty much the same.
So, I went downstairs to talk to my mom. When I came back up and looked at my computer, the screen of my monitor was black but the light was on like the computer was off. Well, since I certainly didn’t turn the computer off, I was confused. Looking down at the computer tower, I noticed that the light that usually blinks bright green was a very soft green and it was blinking rapidly, too rapidly, in fact. It was on, but stuck in some low powered broken cycle. I couldn’t even restart it manually. I finally had to pull the plug.
For the sake of experimentation, I plugged it into a different socket and tried it again. Unfortunately, no matter where I tried or how I tried, the thing kept doing that weird blinking and not booting all of the way.
That means I have no PC. Boooo.
At least I have my laptop. And all of my important stuff is on an external hard drive that was in no way affected. I don’t want to use my precious laptop so much, though, but now I have to because I don’t have my PC to work from. How lame is that? I think the PC is gone for good.
On one hand, I suppose it’s good. It is one less thing I am going to have to take with me when I move. One less thing to find a place for. And, I can get a new one when the time is right. This is what I tell myself. It’s how I keep from throwing a tantrum like a child!