Monday 20 January 2014

Persisting Technical Issues

Technology has not been on my side so far this year. Perhaps I've done something to anger the machine gods. Should I sacrifice something to appease them? Maybe set fire to my old computer parts, my old phone, and my old laptop while screaming binary at the sky?

This would be far less painful than what I've been doing so far.

Seriously, some of these things may as well be on fire.

Let's start with my desktop computer. A stick of RAM was defective and caused my entire computer to crash literally every few minutes. Fortunately, I had a friend come over, we found the defective stick, removed it, and now things are ok now.

Unfortunately, we believe that that stick of RAM also corrupted my OS. I spent around a thousand dollars on upgrading the parts. It shouldn't lag when I try to view files or stutter when I'm watching a video on Youtube.

So fine, we need to do a reformat of my hard drive. A bit of a hassle, all we have to do is back it up and we're good to g-

Oh wait. My external hard drive is corrupted too.

Kill me now.

When my computer was crashing I tried to back up my files. Unfortunately it crashed during a back-up and this has done something to my external hard drive. I could reformat it, but I have files on it that would be forever lost. I have back-ups from multiple computers on it.

So I'm kind of scrambling to try and access it. I really don't want to go running about through old computers hunting down specific folders.

Speaking of old computers. Have I mentioned how bad my laptop has been getting? I constantly require a laptop cooler otherwise the whirring and the overheating gets unbearable. One day in class I was afraid it was going to catch on fire.

Maybe if I fall asleep everything will be ok.

And then we have my phone. It began to die in less than 24 hours leading me to believe it was a battery issue. But the new battery does nothing. Nothing! So it's just my phone being defective. Lovely.

My sister recently upgraded to a Nexus 4. And I'm really tempted to do the same. Sure, I'll be giving up my beloved keyboard, but I'd getting something that isn't a complete disaster. Something that can take decent pictures and have voice commands.

Upgrade now, or upgrade at the end of the year? Decisions decisions.

My main concern is still my computer. Hopefully things will be resolved by the end of this week.

20 comments:

  1. Oh man, I hate computer problems. Mine's about due one, actually - it needs upgrading but unfortunately I don't have the money.
    I hope you manage to get yours sorted without losing any of your files.

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  2. That sounds difficult! I hope you can fix it :)

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  3. Have you checked your phone for software gone rogue? It may be eating up lots of CPU use, draining the battery.
    Sounds like an annoying curse you have gotten over you though. Man, I'd freak out if my precious tech got all those issues all at once. Good job on keeping your cool, and best of luck with file recovery!

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  4. This is why I sometimes want to just shun all technology and build a cabin in the woods :)

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  5. Sorry to hear about the string of bad technology luck. :(

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  6. that's why I don't really spend much on computers. I spent maybe three hundred on mine, and I've already gotten more than enough time out of it. But I hope it lasts at least another 2 years.

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  7. Wow sucks when technology collapses like that. Good habit to back up regularly on an external drive. Hope it all gets fixed up and cheap.

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  8. Uggg the tech crap just doesn't want to leave you alone

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  9. I was bloody proud of my laptop's battery backup...and now suddenly it decides to get overheated and low battery all in a span of 15 minutes. Plus my phone is ANCIENT!! Sorry actually PREHISTORIC!!!!!

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  10. good luck with all your electronic equipment. it can be all so expensive when they all fail at once :(

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  11. You do need technology on your side. I will be praying. That is all I can do. I wish that I was tech savy.

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  12. Man, corrupted external hard drive? Can't you just reformat it and re-use? There's no software, I would really hope the solution could be that simple. Good luck with it all!

    As for the phone, I don't want to get rid of my keyboard either.. but the M and FN keys no longer work and.. well.. after turning itself on and off every day and neglecting my will to send texts, I think it's time for a change.

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  13. Well, fuck! That sounds like the day at my parents' house where the oven, microwave, fridge and A/C all went out in a matter of a couple of days. And then the chair broke. Yes, it's true.

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  14. Oh my. That is not fun. I hate it when a computer goes bad. You work so hard on a project and for it all to go to waste. Computers are an evil necessity.

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  15. From the description of problem i can say that the there may be a virus in your PC use the CD to install OS do not use Ghost image of OS

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  16. My computer cost about $300 and my cell phone like $10 and they are both working fine. You should consider the minimalist lifestyle.

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  17. My old mac laptop gets way to too hot to use now... It still works perfectly other than that though. Impressive, since it is 11 years old.

    Fire. Set them all on fire. It makes you feel better. <3

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  18. Technology - a blessing and a curse.

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