Slept about two hours last night. Calling it a victory because I haven’t been able to stay in bed to sleep at night for over a week now.
About 3AM, I was perusing the intarwebz when my computer screen went black.
And there it sat.
I had to do a hard shut down and restart (it wanted Safe Mode) and it took 3 tries restarting to get it functional again.
Things seemed to be running fine. Then I tried opening a game. Brown, wonky screen and a loud buzzing noise as it locked up in the middle of playing music. It sat for a few minutes, shut itself down and restarted. Again, wanting Safe Mode.
Shut down, restart.
I started copying some crucial files to my external hard drive. Then made the mistake of opening Firefox to pass the time while files copied.
BLACK SCREEN.
The light on the external HD kept flashing as though it was still copying files, but I had no idea if such was the case because my computer was just sitting there with a black screen. I let it sit for a long time, seeing if anything would happen and eventually did another hard shut down.
I started it up in Safe Mode and copied a considerable amount of crucial files to my external HD. Things copied much faster in SM than they did in normal mode. Bonus there I suppose.
It sat running in Safe Mode until Bob came into the loft after getting ready for work. I regaled him with my woes, he told me everything would be okay. And after I copied most of the files I wanted to, I restarted into normal mode and got THIS MESS.
The picture doesn’t really do it justice. The colors were a lovely, muted pink and brown and the pinstripes were perfect.
Bright sides.
I can find them.
Which brings back memories of THIS and THIS.
I’d post the pictures here, but I’m not running my computer and can’t remember how the hell to set up the FTP client.
But those are the lovely screens I used to get with my old laptop when the graphics card died a slow and painful death.
I’m not sure when the problem officially started. It has been stuttering in iTunes for a few weeks. Music is playing and it skips and sticks like a bad CD player or a scratched record. My old computer did the same thing for a long time before its inevitable death.
Last night I’d brought my computer downstairs to use while Bob played a game on the PS3 and as I was plugging it in, it slid sloooooooowly to the floor off the ottoman. Barely a foot off the floor, but still fuckadamnduck it hit the floor with an ominous THUD.
Then when I took it upstairs and put it back on my desk at bedtime, plugging it into the surge protector on the wall, the outlet snapped with a big blue spark.
So…
My computer may or may not be completely fucked.
We should be able to salvage all the important stuff if it can’t be otherwise fixed, but I won’t know until Bob has time to sit down and look at it.
Hopefully tonight.
I hope.
In the meantime I’m using this…other laptop that we have and while it’s functional, I hate it because it’s NOT MY COMPUTER.
I’m doing a fine job at feeling sorry for myself over it all.
I installed iTunes on this thing and ripped one CD. I’m sure you can guess who it is.
Also, apparently this thing only has one speaker that only plays the left channel. Because obviously.
Platyduck pretty much says it all
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