Spring Break Reflection
My Spring break went as follows: HW-->Studying-->Laptop failed-->More Studying-->Laptop Fixed-->More Studying.
Saw two really cool movies: The Inside Man, and V for Vendetta.
The first day of my spring break staying at Berkeley, I got a sudden Blue-Screen of death, which I have never experienced before, after 3.5 years of heavy use of my trusty HP pavilion ze5400.
Contrary to the conventional wisdom, most geeks would probably tell you that personal laptops made by HP are complete junks, I actually had the most joyous times with mine. If you can stand the consistent fan noise due to a rare Pentium 4 in my laptop (with a pair of Bose QCII....what noise?), I can honestly say that I LOVE my laptop, since as any normal college student I would be completely and utterly crippled without it.
Anyways, after the blue-screen, the computer automatically restarted itself, and it took me to this menu, where it had a list of options of how you want to start the windows, which I also have never seen before. I reckoned that it was probably just a flook, so I selected Start Windows Normally....but it took forever to get to the start menu...and the computer re-started again for some bizarre reason...and after I went through this drill of hide-and-seek with my start menu for another half-dozen rounds, I was FINALLY able to operate properly, so I started backing up the important files, I left my computer on over-night, and went to bed. And what do you know...when I woke up the next day, the computer has restarted itself...Again. At that point, I knew something seriously wrong has happened, and the problem is out of my hands. I took it down to Berkeley Computers to get it fixed. And it turned out that there was a complete hard-drive failure.
Long story short, I got a new 60GB hard-drive, restored windows using the recovery disks, and lost everything that was originally on my laptop. Fortunately, I backed-up the important files before this tragic incident.
so...
in summary,
new 60GB hard-drive: $95+tax
manual labor of installation and restoration: $75
lessons learned from hard-drive failure: Priceless
Haha...I probably wouldn't be humoring myself if I hadn't have my Seagate 200GB external hard-drive.
Even though it was a pain in the neck, I guess it's a rite of passage after almost 4 years of use without a glitch, which is much more than I can say for Toshiba, Sony Vaio, and Dell laptops that my fellow colleagues have.
Saw two really cool movies: The Inside Man, and V for Vendetta.
The first day of my spring break staying at Berkeley, I got a sudden Blue-Screen of death, which I have never experienced before, after 3.5 years of heavy use of my trusty HP pavilion ze5400.
Contrary to the conventional wisdom, most geeks would probably tell you that personal laptops made by HP are complete junks, I actually had the most joyous times with mine. If you can stand the consistent fan noise due to a rare Pentium 4 in my laptop (with a pair of Bose QCII....what noise?), I can honestly say that I LOVE my laptop, since as any normal college student I would be completely and utterly crippled without it.
Anyways, after the blue-screen, the computer automatically restarted itself, and it took me to this menu, where it had a list of options of how you want to start the windows, which I also have never seen before. I reckoned that it was probably just a flook, so I selected Start Windows Normally....but it took forever to get to the start menu...and the computer re-started again for some bizarre reason...and after I went through this drill of hide-and-seek with my start menu for another half-dozen rounds, I was FINALLY able to operate properly, so I started backing up the important files, I left my computer on over-night, and went to bed. And what do you know...when I woke up the next day, the computer has restarted itself...Again. At that point, I knew something seriously wrong has happened, and the problem is out of my hands. I took it down to Berkeley Computers to get it fixed. And it turned out that there was a complete hard-drive failure.
Long story short, I got a new 60GB hard-drive, restored windows using the recovery disks, and lost everything that was originally on my laptop. Fortunately, I backed-up the important files before this tragic incident.
so...
in summary,
new 60GB hard-drive: $95+tax
manual labor of installation and restoration: $75
lessons learned from hard-drive failure: Priceless
Haha...I probably wouldn't be humoring myself if I hadn't have my Seagate 200GB external hard-drive.
Even though it was a pain in the neck, I guess it's a rite of passage after almost 4 years of use without a glitch, which is much more than I can say for Toshiba, Sony Vaio, and Dell laptops that my fellow colleagues have.
Labels: Berkeley, My Musings
posted by 凱西 at 2:15 AM
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priceless things are priceless....
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