| Jan. 6th, 2009 @ 03:02 pm ARRRRRGH SCREW YOU ACERRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!! |
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Current Location: College
Current Mood:  hopeful
Current Music: World Revolution - Chrono Trigger
Well, if you couldn't tell from the title, I have a story to tell here.
So, some of you may or may not be aware, but I got one and only one present for Christmas this year: a new computer. It was an Acer Aspire 2005 model that was about x4 better than my old computer. Well, I say old, but I mean it in a loving sense....my HP Pavillion from 2001 with upgraded RAM held me for a long, long while. It's a sturdy girl.
Anyway, back to the point. This gloriously powerful Acer kept my life candy and nuts for a week and a half after I got it, providing me with some of the fastest loadtimes I've ever experienced and enough RAM and PRocessing power to let me play DotA and have Skype running all at once. It was awesome!
Until it broke.
Last Saturday night, the damn thing started freezing for no apparent reason. After keeping my poor sis up all night helping me through attempted fixes and keeping me from losing my mind, we determined the poor thing was suffering from Hardware failure and had to be replaced. Sunday I went in and got it exchanged for a new one, and enjoyed that one too.
Until Monday.
That's when this one started shutting off without warning. At first it sorta seemed weird, like it was just a fluke and I thought I could ignore it. Then it shut off again with even less warning than the first time, leaving my screen blank and Windows off. This time I was determined to figure out what was going on, so I turned the thing on in Safe Mode and tried to determine what the problem was.
When it shut off in Safe Mode, I gave up on Acer.
So today I returned the shitty compute for my money back, walked out of the Best Buy and hauled my ass over to Future Shop where I found myself a giant relic...a 2006 model HP With pretty much the same specs. It's a nice thick thing that reminds me fondly of the tower i've been using for years, and apparently has all the loveliness of the first one as well. As I type, it's being set up and having all it's trial software removed by the guys at Future Shop. I also got myself a 3 year warranty....because hell, what with what's been going on, I NEED it.
And can you believe that all this has cost me my Christmas and Birthday presents from my family? ARgh, I hope this one WORKS!!!!
Anyway, I've also started college again, hitting Semester 2 of my GAS courses. Hopefully the gaps in my schedule will allow me to write again, but in all honesty my will to write Naruto is very low right now. I'll get back into it though, I promise! |