The Fall

For those who wanted to know what happened with me and my laptop:
Unlike my friend Mr. Gray I have a little capability to destroy electronic devices. You see I have this laptop for three years and during all this time, it performed perfectly well and its genuine windows remained intact. Well, everyday is not Sunday.. (or Good Friday, or Saturday :p) Things usually don't remain as they are. People are just the same. That's another discussion... May be some day later I will talk about this too..
My laptop was suffering from a disease called 'Heating Problem'. There could be two major reasons:
  • It needed cleansing 
  • Something had gone terribly wrong.. Some internal delicate circuit was damaged  
One of my friend's laptop was suffering this second malignant disease and her laptop died after few months. I couldn't let this happen to my beloved laptop. So I decided to consult some doctor. That was my first mistake. He and his staff took out each and every bolt of this poor machine, cleaned its delicate circuits with a painting brush! and returned it to me after an hour operation. Turns out my laptop needed cleaning. I forgot to tell you first that my laptop's LCD was also problematic. The colours got distorted sometimes..
Well, this was the outcome of 'the service':
  • My laptop was free of this heating problem
  • LCD was back to normal
I was happy. However, later I discovered few horrible after effects (more precisely, side effects) of 'the service'. Interestingly, problems showed up one by one in irregular intervals on time axis
  • Two USB ports were gone!
  • The Linux system crashed
  • Windows got stuck in an infinite loop of starting, Configuring, and shutting down!
  • AVG started declaring windows file as viruses! (few of them though)
Well, I solved problem second and third. First and last are still there. But the interesting thing is that I am blogging through same poor laptop right now. It is working. Ubuntu works really well and windows causes problems now and then. Sometimes it won't run any software. Sometimes explorer.exe would get stuck in an infinite loop of stopped working and restarting. Sometimes it gives me several notifications about corrupt files that are actually windows files. Anyways it is working..

Surely I can't let it be like that for a long time. I was already fed up of this windows and I am soon going to reinstall it...

So, people, this was the sad story of my laptop's devastation. Hope you enjoyed it :(

3 comments:

  1. I enjoyed it :)
    Have you thought about opening it yourself? yes I am trying to implant an idea.Don't you have any confidence in your healing powers?

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  2. Several times indeed :P But, yes, I can't rely on myself especially when it comes to delicate circuits. Don't you remember what happened to our poor LCD's??? :P

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  3. Interesting blog :). Thanks for commenting on mine.

    Great to hear the woes of another engineering student. Best of luck for the exams and all!

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