Dr Reid is dead

[innerslytherin]

My computer is dead.

It started acting weird last night after Windows installed updates on Wednesday. Watching a DVD crashed it. I finally gave up and went to bed after the third crash. This morning it booted fine and I started checking email and stuff. It worked a good half hour at least.

Then I got interrupted by a phone call and when I came back to it, it had crashed again. Now when I say it crashed what I man is that the comp is apparently still running but the monitor says there is not input. I have to manually power it off and do a hard reboot. All morning I got it to boot up but not to stay on when idle.

Suspecting it might be related to the screensaver or video card (which I just installed 5 months ago) I tried turning off the screensaver. Didn't work. Called my dad, who suggested a system restore. I've never done one of those aside from when Windows XP SP2 screwed up my last computer. But okay, I'll give it a try.

BIG MISTAKE.

The computer crashed in the middle of the system restore, and now it WONT BOOT AT ALL.

My father, usually a thoughtful and kind man, apparently cares so much about this that he is taking a nap while I am in tears and trying to make the computer boot.

Just Thursday I helped a friend pick out a laptop that would meet her needs. We went to Fry's and although I am usually envious of the person getting a new computer, I wasn't this time.

I knew my computer was more than adequate for what I do with it, and I wasn't even tempted to buy a new one. Which is good, because I'm broke since paying off the car and buying an iPhone. So I guess this is my reward.

My life sucks.

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Comments

[innerslytherin]

Back up battery, huh? Weird. Fortunately (and unusually) for me, I had purchased the 3-year warranty on this, so they're going to send someone out to fix it. Hurrah! I don't usually do that, but I'm glad I did on this one!