Robynne's Parade of Failed Computers
On Friday night, my computer froze. I waited a while, tried ctrl+alt+del, tried hitting escape to see if I could exit the program I was in and nothing happened at all. So I reluctantly held the power button down to force the computer to turn off.
The computer turned off immediately, which was weird, because normally it takes a few seconds to turn off from holding down the power button. And when it turned back on, it gave me an error message informing me that there was no bootable device.
When the computer froze, I'd heard an unusual kind of whirring sound. I heard the same sound when trying to get it to turn on.
The next morning I had my sister look at it, and she said the hard drive might be dead. I took it to Best Buy (where I'd bought it) and they confirmed that the hard drive was dead. So I bought a new computer.
I've lost all the data on that hard drive. Much of it can be replaced, but there is some that cannot. I've lost some pictures that I really wanted to keep, and several thousand words of writing. (I usually write in Google Docs, but there are circumstances under which that doesn't work.)
I've lost a lot of music and other media, too, and that will be a pain to reassamble but none of it was unique so the loss isn't terrible.
What really bugs me is that I just bought an external hard drive, but I hadn't gotten around to setting it up yet. If I'd just gotten on that sooner, all of my data could have been saved. *facepalm*
At least this computer failed in a different way than my others did. Before now, every computer I'd owned wound up unable to charge because the power jack broke.
Anyway.
The Fall quarter has started. I'm back to being a student.
There's a fun thing going on at TVTropes. It got me to finally watch Echo Chamber, which is amazing--at least, it's amazing if you love TVTropes, which I do. I have no idea if it's at all enjoyable if you haven't spent at least hours of your life browsing TVTropes. But I love it.
The computer turned off immediately, which was weird, because normally it takes a few seconds to turn off from holding down the power button. And when it turned back on, it gave me an error message informing me that there was no bootable device.
When the computer froze, I'd heard an unusual kind of whirring sound. I heard the same sound when trying to get it to turn on.
The next morning I had my sister look at it, and she said the hard drive might be dead. I took it to Best Buy (where I'd bought it) and they confirmed that the hard drive was dead. So I bought a new computer.
I've lost all the data on that hard drive. Much of it can be replaced, but there is some that cannot. I've lost some pictures that I really wanted to keep, and several thousand words of writing. (I usually write in Google Docs, but there are circumstances under which that doesn't work.)
I've lost a lot of music and other media, too, and that will be a pain to reassamble but none of it was unique so the loss isn't terrible.
What really bugs me is that I just bought an external hard drive, but I hadn't gotten around to setting it up yet. If I'd just gotten on that sooner, all of my data could have been saved. *facepalm*
At least this computer failed in a different way than my others did. Before now, every computer I'd owned wound up unable to charge because the power jack broke.
Anyway.
The Fall quarter has started. I'm back to being a student.
There's a fun thing going on at TVTropes. It got me to finally watch Echo Chamber, which is amazing--at least, it's amazing if you love TVTropes, which I do. I have no idea if it's at all enjoyable if you haven't spent at least hours of your life browsing TVTropes. But I love it.