A hospital visit for my pride and joy…
Well this is it.
My laptop is going into hospital tonight.
It is lying on my bed as I type and it’s in it’s bag ready to be airlifted at 4.30pm this evening. I would love to be able to bring it in right now but unfortunately I had to come to work, this enables me to pay for the care and attention it will receive at the hospital y’see, that’s how it works. I am getting off an hour earlier though to bring it in.
I won’t stop for something to eat, I will grab my laptop and go.
My laptop has cancer.
Cancer of the graphic chip.
It’s in a lot of pain and it’s got a dangerously high temperature, which is common for it’s breed. I didn’t sleep a wink last night worrying about it. I have bombarded my brothers phone with constant texts asking him questions. I have bored everyone within earshot about my worries and fears. I have dreamt about it on Friday night and again on Saturday night. It’s all I have thought about all weekend. I have researched it’s symptoms online and have come away frightened by chatting with fellow forum-mites who tell me it’s fit for the scrap heap.
I am afraid it will be a terminal illness but the man in the repair shop sounded hopeful. His name is Steve. We had a little diagnostic chat about it’s symptoms and I told him about what the man in the shop said and he kinda got annoyed with me and told me not to listen to those guys as they ‘don’t have the knowledge’. Steve said he has special thermal paste, I am not sure what that’s for but he even invited me to watch a bit of the operation and to look at the machines. I said I would be very interested in that.
Anyway, I have to find a way to make the next four hours go quickly.
I will let you know the outcome of this grave situation.
Laptop is banjaxed…
About 15 months ago I purchased a lovely Sony Vaio VGN-FZ21Z Laptop. It was my pride and joy and from that moment on I must have spent at least six hours a day looking at it. It had a year warranty which expired just three months ago and like clockwork, it started giving me gyp. I am unable to bring it back to the shop now so I would like to diagnose whether it is a hardware or software issue so I can decide what to do next.
I have the CD which enables me to revert it to its factory settings, I don’t want to have to take this route as I will have to re-install all of my programs etc.
Another option would be to buy a hard drive and swap it with the one I have in my laptop, which would determine if it was a hard drive issue immediately and I wouldn’t run the risk of losing all my programs.
However, something tells me it is not a hard drive issue as there has been no freezing or crashing and everything is fully functional.
Here are the symptoms:
My laptop has major graphics distortion. Multi coloured Zig-zags, stripes, patterns, fuzzy lines are displayed and the resolution has been altered also, so everything is massive! I try to get the resolution back to normal but it completely ignores my command. I shut it down & restart it but it doesn’t change a thing…
If I switch it off using the off button and then turn it on again, this sometimes brings it back to normal. It is working perfectly at the moment; I don’t expect it will stay that way for long though. In the good ole days, this is what my normal login screen looked like…
And now look at it!
Honestly, this is really traumatic! I feel like I am about to lose a limb…
Last night after tinkering with it and trying to bring it back from it’s serious illness, I kinda felt like I was ill too…
Here are some other shots of it acting completely mental. I don’t know why it is doing this to me, we were such buds.
What the hell is this all about:
And this carry on:
Snowdrops!
And now it’s giving me lip and being all uncooperative about stuff:
And why is it enlarging it’s text so much, like it thinks I am half blind or something.
So I went out last night in a panic and bought an external hard drive and copied everything over to it.
I then deleted everything from my Laptop. I am running Cyberscrub Privacy Suite right now which erases previously deleted files beyond recovery. I am doing this in case i have to hand it into the Laptop hospital to have an operation (I have turned into a psycho-paranoid freak when it comes to data).
It came with 2GB of Ram but I upgraded it to 4GB, even though it is unable to utilise the full 4GB. I think it can only use up to 3GB or something like that.
It has a built in graphics card which I am told is built into the motherboard. I am inclined to think it may be a graphics card corruption or something, but who knows? After I have wiped my entire laptop I am going to revert it to factory settings, so if you don’t hear from me, it means it completely ruined it altogether and I have been blown out of cyber space entirely.
Goodbye Cruel CyberWorld…
