"From the darkness, sleeping light." Formerly luminus dormiens. Lux pacis, light of peace.

Quote: "Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us." --Bill Watterson, cartoonist, Calvin and Hobbes

20040403

computer, mend thyself!

I so totally hate my computer. It just crashes for no reason. I mean, I can understand that people do something to make it crash. Maybe they were using a program and a bug caused it to crash.

But for what reason would a computer crash of its own accord? For what reason would I need to restart my computer seven times in order for it to stay "un-crashing" for longer period of time. I mean, sometimes this computer would crash many times during its first fifteen minutes of being turned on, then after that, it works unperturbed for hours afterward.

That makes no sense. If it was a hardware problem, it would not work at all after crashing. If it was a software problem, all I need to do is not use that software. But one minute I'm using it, perfectly content to read a news article, the next thing, I'm pressing the reset button repeatedly, waiting for it to turn on. It's like some kind of disconnection between the CPU and the input devices, or something.

What I just did to stop that, was to shake the computer and bang it on the floor. Seems to be working now, no crash. Maybe not, I don't know. I'm typing this as fast as possible. Anyway, my mom felt the bang through the whole house and lectured me on why I should not be banging a desktop computer, because it will crash and never start up and work again. But it was crashing before. Some people might accidentally drop a laptop, but that laptop was working before, but mine is not working now. So what should I do with a faulty computer that will suddenly not work? Maybe I need to figure out a connection problem. Anyway, after that annoying Scandisk message telling me to shut down my computer properly, I'm going to leave this computer and see if it's still working after a couple of hours. Maybe if it's not, then I'll try to find out why. See if it's the motherboard or something.

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