Bah. And humbug

[annwfyn]

So.

It appears my laptop has died.

Or rather, the screen has gone again. I haven't dropped it, no one has trodden on it, and it was totally fine last night. This morning there is only a black screen. Everything else is working, I think. I can hear it all buzzing along, and the occasional noise of programmes starting up when I try and boot it up, but there is no screen.

I'm just out of my warranty, so no hope of getting it fixed for free.

I was considering getting a new laptop, and am quite close to just trying to transfer the contents of my hard drive to a datastick, and then looking for something new.

Why do laptops always die so fast?

In other news, I had a lovely day yesterday. I went to see Leah, an old friend from school, and her adorable daughter. Charlotte Darbyshire is a complete sweetheart, with the biggest blue eyes I've ever seen. It was fab just to hang out with Leah for a bit.

I'm now home, feeling very very poor, and wishing I had the cash to go out and do something exciting to do. Thankfully, my father tells me that I should be getting a little bit of inheritance money through in the next week, which won't make me rich, but will pay off my credit card, and leave me a little bit of money to buy something shiny with. Which will probably be a laptop, but I'll see if I can weasel some money aside for something frivolous as well.

In the interim, I shall head out into the day and go hunting for books, which may actually be useful for me. I shall do college work today. I shall. I shall.

And today will turn out alright in the end...

Comments

[wildrogue.livejournal.com]

Good luck. I thoroughly recommend reconditioned laptops, which cost a fraction of the price and do almost as much as brand new ones.

[headinclouds.livejournal.com]

And today will turn out alright in the end...

I hope you're right.

[bringeroflight.livejournal.com]

Laptops are designed as a single unit and the warranty is designed for what they've made sure it will survive for.

Why does a laptop always fall apart just after the warranty runs out? Because firms aren't daft and know the rough life expectancy of a laptop. They are rarely built to the same quality as a desktop machine...

[suave-steve.livejournal.com]

That said (and touching as much wood as possible because if it now breaks there is no way I can afford to replace it) my laptop is now 5 years old and doing fine, ok it's been dropped a few times, the screen can be a bit odd at certain angles and the HD is often full, but it works still.

[badgersandjam.livejournal.com]

I've never had a laptop, so I don't know.

But what I'm really posting to say is EEEEEEE! Molly Grue!

[flamma-lupus.livejournal.com]

my laptop does that randomly on occasion, as do others I've seen, for me I've had success getting it to work again by closing and opening the "lid" a few times, just pushing it a bit to make sure everythings where it should, and rebooting it.
It may not work for you, but worth a try... or wave a hammer near it threateningly which is my patented cure for most computer ills!

[pmp.livejournal.com]

One thing it's worth trying is to unplug it, remove the battery and try holding down the power button for 30 seconds.

I've had desktop PC's fail to output a picture (but are otherwise on) clear up because of that. As far as I understand the science, there's a buildup of charge somewhere in the motherboard that's mucking up the data.

Failing that, I can always bring down a tool set and have a play. It's not impossible for it to be something mundane rather than a total failure.

[aardnebby.livejournal.com]

If you are in Reading on a week day pop into my work. There is a company there that rent warehousing space from us to recondition old machines. They can either give a bash at fixing it or sell you a reconditioned laptop cheap. (Needless to say I get on rather well with them and occasionally do them favours...)