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Let's see if I can summarize this properly. I think the world has it in for me this year. Honest.
I think that should be good enough. But if you want more detail:
10:00 Couldn't focus on paper. Eyelids drooping.
11:00 Crap! Not done with paper! Eyelids drooping, but writing continues.
Noon: Turn in paper about a minute and a half late to no ill effects.
1:00: Doze off in Civ for about a minute, until catching self wondering why the professor was making a lecture on the 58 Sufjan Stevens songs he had downloaded.
2:00: Return to dorm. Discover new, large, rather maroonish-pink couch. Discuss Half-Blood Prince with roomie. Move computer from chair it was put on when couch back onto desk. Sleep.
2:15-6:30: Sleep, glorious sleep.
6:30: Wake up. Come groggily into living room. Greet other roomie. Tell computer it's okay to update Firefox. Wonder vaguely why it's going so slow. Notice a very unhappy grinding sort of noice. Frown.
7:00: Frantically try to figure out how to fix computer, which is running so slow it's basically unusable. Determine (by few leaps of the imagination) that something hardware-related has finally bitten the dust.
7:30: Discover warranty information is nowhere to be found. Call home. Wait for call back, and finally get CPU fan cover open.
8:00: Pull ridiculous amounts of dust from CPU fan, vainly hope that this it the problem. Computer still rebels against me. Mom calls back with tech number.
8:30: Call tech support. Get treated like an airhead. Cause the operator to freak out because I told him I cleanded the fan. He asks if I did it while the computer was on. (Yes, of course. I also used water to clean out the dust.) Long conversation in which I try to explain that, if it's not the fan (which it does not appear to be), then it is the harddrive that is finally on its way towards the great light beyond. He tells me that if it is not making noise loud enough to disturb a crowded room, it is not a problem, and gives me a case number to call back if anything "really goes wrong."
9:00: Finally get computer happy enough to run more than one program at once. Still painfully slow, and inexplicably using 100% of its CPU way more often than it used to. Much internalized anger and emo.
So yay, dealing with my computer finally giving out on me on only four hours of sleep after staying up all night working on the paper of DOOM. Oh, and it's a good thing I didn't skip Civ today, because yay, we got another paper assigned. The day we turned this one in.
Anyway, does anyone know if there's a second fan in a laptop, maybe near the hard drive? My computer's sad noises don't always sound like they're hard drive related, and the tech guy hinted that there was more than one fan (even though he was USELESS otherwise. Freaking actual American tech guy). If that's what's broken and it's just making the hard drive overheat or something, I sort of have hope. But, well, at least I've got everything backed up, just in case. Hooray for my externa hard drive!
I think that should be good enough. But if you want more detail:
10:00 Couldn't focus on paper. Eyelids drooping.
11:00 Crap! Not done with paper! Eyelids drooping, but writing continues.
Noon: Turn in paper about a minute and a half late to no ill effects.
1:00: Doze off in Civ for about a minute, until catching self wondering why the professor was making a lecture on the 58 Sufjan Stevens songs he had downloaded.
2:00: Return to dorm. Discover new, large, rather maroonish-pink couch. Discuss Half-Blood Prince with roomie. Move computer from chair it was put on when couch back onto desk. Sleep.
2:15-6:30: Sleep, glorious sleep.
6:30: Wake up. Come groggily into living room. Greet other roomie. Tell computer it's okay to update Firefox. Wonder vaguely why it's going so slow. Notice a very unhappy grinding sort of noice. Frown.
7:00: Frantically try to figure out how to fix computer, which is running so slow it's basically unusable. Determine (by few leaps of the imagination) that something hardware-related has finally bitten the dust.
7:30: Discover warranty information is nowhere to be found. Call home. Wait for call back, and finally get CPU fan cover open.
8:00: Pull ridiculous amounts of dust from CPU fan, vainly hope that this it the problem. Computer still rebels against me. Mom calls back with tech number.
8:30: Call tech support. Get treated like an airhead. Cause the operator to freak out because I told him I cleanded the fan. He asks if I did it while the computer was on. (Yes, of course. I also used water to clean out the dust.) Long conversation in which I try to explain that, if it's not the fan (which it does not appear to be), then it is the harddrive that is finally on its way towards the great light beyond. He tells me that if it is not making noise loud enough to disturb a crowded room, it is not a problem, and gives me a case number to call back if anything "really goes wrong."
9:00: Finally get computer happy enough to run more than one program at once. Still painfully slow, and inexplicably using 100% of its CPU way more often than it used to. Much internalized anger and emo.
So yay, dealing with my computer finally giving out on me on only four hours of sleep after staying up all night working on the paper of DOOM. Oh, and it's a good thing I didn't skip Civ today, because yay, we got another paper assigned. The day we turned this one in.
Anyway, does anyone know if there's a second fan in a laptop, maybe near the hard drive? My computer's sad noises don't always sound like they're hard drive related, and the tech guy hinted that there was more than one fan (even though he was USELESS otherwise. Freaking actual American tech guy). If that's what's broken and it's just making the hard drive overheat or something, I sort of have hope. But, well, at least I've got everything backed up, just in case. Hooray for my externa hard drive!
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Wow, sorry for that completely useless answer. ^_^;;
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