Well, the main reason for my being absent from the interweb is that my antiquity of a personal computer decided to go on strike. When it comes to PCs I favour a hands on approach and tried fixing it myself. This abomination of a machine has been assembled by yours truly over the years, by replacing individual components whenever I saw the need. In a way, just like Frankenstein, I created my own monster. And apparently, to spin the comparison just a little further, in mid April said Monster looked into the mirror and realized what an ugly brute it was.
I will never forget that fear inducing , horibble scream of his and the moment he froze up in sheer terror. Whatever I did, the beast woudl not respond, the only thign my probing fingers were able to pry out of him were repetitions of that horrible, deranged outcry of mental pain: ....."BEEEEEEP"...."BEEEEP" at every push of a button.
But this is were the similarities with Frankenstein end. When he used power to bring his abomination to life, I had to cut power to fix mine. Okay I did fish some nasty looking used pieces taken from other PCs out of their dusty graves, let's forget about Frankenstein for now.
I have been fixing my PC for years and I consider myself a pro at installing Windows and all necessary updates. Hell I am so good at it I can literally do it in my sleep (Yeah original versions of Windows can be updated, and it can take up to 4 hours from scratch to SP3 + all security updates. Not that you would know that you filthy software pirates!) Jokes aside, this time it took me 5 days to do countless reinstalls, then I went to visit a friend in Geneva and when I came back it was all broken again.
As a result I have been fighting with my piece of crap excuse of a PC for a whole month now, only to discover it wasn't his fault at all. After sleepless nights, fits of rage and more bluescreens than there are bicycles in Bejing I found the reason:
Dust - no not the kind from the Golden Compass, the ordinary household kind.
After a serious clean and reassemble, I did yell out in delight: "IT'S ALIVE!!!"
No I did not really, however, I know what Frankenstein must've felt when he turned the switch and the long dead pieces of roughly sewn together meat started to move.
- I've done you wrong old friend, you may be limping along at the speed of Forest Gump prior to loosing his leg braces, and the capacity of your CPU would make you Forest's best friend on the short bus, but it wasn't your fault. -
1 comment:
"...and more bluescreens than there are bicycles in Bejing..."
i love you.
"...I did yell out in delight: "IT'S ALIVE!!!" No I did not really..."
if someone was there to witness the drama, i am sure you would have really. hahaha
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