Showing posts with label computers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label computers. Show all posts

Friday, April 27, 2007

"Where's My Hard Drive?"

One of my co-workers, a woman in her mid-fifties, had her outdated PC replaced with a new laptop and docking station yesterday. Utterly confused by the change, she kept pointing to her new laptop, asking, "So where's my hard drive?"

Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Screen of Death Reappears

About a year and a half ago, a blue screen popped up on my laptop that said, "beginning physical dump of memory." When I asked my IT friend about it, he told me in IT world, that is referred to as the "screen of death." Hence I would eventually need to replace my hard drive. At which point, I was advised to purchase a hard drive from Newegg.com, which I did, and my friend was nice enough to install it for me and everything. Pretty sure I also purchased a 3 year warranty with my hard drive through newegg, but I have no idea where my receipt is. How is it possible the screen of death came back to haunt me only a year and a half after replacing my hard drive? I'm gonna be so pissed if I have to buy a new computer or hard drive again! Why do my computers always crash?!? Although, if I do have to buy a new one, I'd really, really like a macbook!! Guess it's time to finally put that external hard drive I got for Christmas to use.