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BrockSmith
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 Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 10:10 am Post subject: How do you react when your computer breaks? |
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When my last computer broke, I kind of felt a feeling of shock that lingered for a long time. Computers/the internet are a major part of my life, so when my computer broke I almost didn't want to believe that my computer actually broke.
It was such an awful time when my computer broke, because the space-bar on my computer broke a couple days before my actual computer 'died'. My computer shut down by itself while I was listening to the Eminem song 'Fack'. I wondered 'WTF'? I tried turning my computer on. It only stayed on for five minutes, then shut off again. I repeatedly pressed the power button until finally I heard this 'crackle' sound, and my power supply blew up, shooting long sparks at the wall. After this happened, I couldn't even turn my PC on at all.
At first I figured that it was just my power supply that was broken, but that apparently wasn't the case. I had purchased a new power-supply, but the same damn thing happened to it when I hooked it up to my PC. It's still a mystery as to what is wrong with my old PC. It's still sitting here behind me with the side case panel off it.
Anyways, after my computer 'died', I was without for a computer for a year and a half. Right after getting a new PC, I joined up to this site. It was while not having a computer that I finally realized that I possibly had asperger's syndrome. While not having a computer I spent most of my time reading literature, watching movies and listening to music. |
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Ishmael
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Joined: Jul 08, 2008
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Location: Australia
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I usually swear vitriolic rage against any individual, company, nation or race involved in the compute industry, hit the bloody thing a few times, dispose of it and buy another or, if a minor issue, waste time repairing it.
Unfortunately, the damnable things have become a necessity. You try constructing theoretical interaction models of neuclic materials without one!
Luckily, I now keep three computers - so I don't much have to worry.
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Ishmael
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Location: Australia
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I usually swear vitriolic rage against any individual, company, nation or race involved in the compute industry, hit the bloody thing a few times, dispose of it and buy another or, if a minor issue, waste time repairing it.
Unfortunately, the damnable things have become a necessity. You try constructing theoretical interaction models of neuclic materials without one!
Luckily, I now keep three computers - so I don't much have to worry.
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yesplease
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Age: 102
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| Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 11:52 am Post subject: |
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| I throw one of my other computers into service or toss together one from spare parts. |
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ValMikeSmith
Velociraptor
Joined: May 19, 2008
Posts: 488
Location: Stranger in a strange land
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| Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 12:39 pm Post subject: |
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I used to jump up and down and scream at micro soft and reinstall windows all day
but then I switched to Linux in 2005 and it hasn't broken since then. |
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lau
Quinquaginta Novem! Male Gee-knee-us + silly bits.
Joined: Jun 18, 2006
Age: 59
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Location: Somerset UK
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| Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 2:10 pm Post subject: |
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I haven't had a computer "break".
Mind you, one laptop, which never ran for long on its battery pack, has now got a fudged universal power supply, replacing the underpowered PS that replaced the dead original PS for a while, and probably made it so it won't now tolerate having its battery pack plugged in.
And... I haven't turned on my "old" PC tower case this year. I recently stole its floppy drive, a while back, for the "new" PC tower case, versus this "current" PC tower case, versus the QL tower case, etc.
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Fuzzy
Ack! Thbbbt!
Joined: Mar 31, 2006
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Location: Alberta Canada
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| Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 2:31 pm Post subject: |
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Mildly annoyed, then I use my other computer(s).
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shugo974
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Joined: Apr 07, 2007
Age: 15
Posts: 115
Location: New York, USA
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| Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 4:32 pm Post subject: |
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walk around where I live to get less mad then I go home and fix my PC my self. because no computer repair place can figure out my PC or the OS (windows ME)
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Vanilla_Slice
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Age: 50
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I fix it, like any other self respecting AS geek. The secret is to make regular backups of your data because one day that hard drive WILL fail or that power supply WILL burst into flames.
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DentArthurDent
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Joined: Jul 27, 2008
Age: 43
Posts: 693
Location: Ballarat, Australia
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| Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 5:13 pm Post subject: |
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I expect computers to fail so generally I just calmly fix it. If it is a virus I get pissed at the nasty little sh** that wrote the virus, then fix it, generally it is someone else's computer with the virus so I tell them off for going onto the internet using windows instead of linux.
A year and a half without a computer eeewwwwww, that would be a financial priority even if I could only afford someone else's boat anchor.
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Orwell
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Joined: Aug 09, 2007
Age: 19
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Location: Room 101
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| Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 7:15 pm Post subject: |
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| Fuzzy wrote: | | Mildly annoyed, then I use my other computer(s). |
I've only got the one laptop.  If it breaks, I'm more or less screwed.
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Fnord
Metasyntactic Variable
Joined: May 07, 2008
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Location: Pantopia
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| Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 7:21 pm Post subject: Re: How do you react when your computer breaks? |
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| BrockSmith wrote: | | How do you react when your computer breaks? |
I repair it.
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Eggman
das Freak'n Techno Viking!
Joined: Jul 18, 2008
Posts: 1866
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| Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 7:29 pm Post subject: |
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fix it
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pakled
"Bless his Heart"
Joined: Nov 13, 2007
Age: 51
Posts: 3044
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| Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 9:32 pm Post subject: |
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swear silently, roll my eyes, and fix the pig...
Back up early and often... |
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Taly
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Joined: Sep 23, 2008
Posts: 181
Location: Rain Forest
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| Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 7:04 am Post subject: |
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LOL I LIKED THIS ANSWER.
Never buy a poor Compaq laptop. It's unfixable.  |
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