Jump to bottom

Of PCs and nostalgics

03
06

On thursday evening, my PC gave up working. He had been strange quite a lot of times and everytime it had to do with the bootfrequency of the PC. First Windows froze, and then, when rebooting,it saidd that the PC had been booted with a false frequency. All the last times I changed the frequency to 133 for the 800 MHZ processor but this time it did not work out. Instead, after booting a couple of times, windows does not start at all. I talked to some people and they all said it was some problem with the PC itself and maybe with the mainboard. The fact is I cannot access my data, I was lucky having saved the important docs on my USB stick.

In his lifetime, the PC also caused problems when recording CDs. Including the PC was not really mine, a friend lend it to me, saying it was reliable but the fact is that it let me down.

There I was, burst out in tears, because supposedly all my data are gone, and even if I fix it, who knows what comes next?

So yesterday I made the decision to buy myself a notebook, and now I can work properly.

By the way, talking of nostalgics, I have another PC, an older one, which was given to me by my father when I started university, just to have something to write my homework on. It has 2GB of harddisk and no USB slots, but it works fine and is very reliable. I connected it to see if it worked still, because it had been unused for one year. It worked fantastic and I looked through the data to see what I had left there.

There were some of my first homepage designs ever and many university things.The CD unit contained a CD I had missed. I got a little bit nostalgic looking at the PC.

Thanks to everyone for the nice comments concerning the new layout :heart:

The job interview went well, but I am not too sure of it as always….

AND a small message for my brother: Spam messages are deleted! :tongue:

This was written by Daniela on June 3rd, 2006 and filed under: My life, Reflections. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

10 Comments so far to “Of PCs and nostalgics”

  1. gravatar Jen left a comment on June 3rd, 2006 at 2:54 pm :

    It’s awful when the computer dies at the most inopportune times - when you haven’t saved everything you need. I suppose there’s no hope for data recovery? Or perhaps that may cost too much. Nostalgia, indeed! I browsed through my laptop a few months ago, and there were designs from over 3 years ago, at the very beginning of my venture online. Designs brought back memories, but I find what I wrote positively embarassing.

  2. gravatar Carly left a comment on June 4th, 2006 at 1:01 am :

    Oh! I hope your new notebook is lovely for you :tongue:

  3. gravatar Nicolah left a comment on June 4th, 2006 at 8:27 pm :

    Computers always die right before you get to save everything. I hate that. I got a laptop now and I love it. I need to start saving stuff to a memory stick or something so I never lose it.

  4. gravatar Miss♥Beleza left a comment on June 5th, 2006 at 1:37 am :

    i really like your layout & your faces :spin: very colorful and different…and THANKS!@ the gravatar thing I been dying to know about that!

  5. gravatar Aliah left a comment on June 5th, 2006 at 4:06 am :

    I hate it when the computer stops working. All my data will be at loss. Hope you get the job!

  6. gravatar Kal left a comment on June 5th, 2006 at 10:49 am :

    My laptop does like to have times when it freezes almost to the point of frustration; however unlike your problem mine does work after a reboot. I do truely empathise though, as the computer before my laptop wasn’t exactly all to be desire for. I do believe that was because of my disgusting habits of installing programs and not doing a manual installation.

    Oh what’d be like to rummage through that computer again. But I do usually transfer all of the things I use on a previous computer to a new one; so it’s more than likely I would have deleted some of the files. Nostalgia is sorely missed; it’s nice to go back and see your beginning as a web designer.

    Good luck with getting the job! And the layout is very nice, it reminds me of a raspberry ripple ice cream.

    - Kal
    (limepink @ despair.nu)

  7. gravatar Nadine left a comment on June 6th, 2006 at 2:38 am :

    my computer gave in a few times and each time it died,
    my heart really broke because there were no backups! ):

  8. gravatar Kayla left a comment on June 6th, 2006 at 2:53 am :

    aww i’m sorry about your computer!! i hate when it happens! my computer crashed once and i lost everythingggg! it was horrible!! and i really like the colors of your layout )

  9. gravatar Ally left a comment on June 6th, 2006 at 3:12 am :

    Sorry about your computer! Such things often happen to me actually and every time I want to kick the computer… Last time when I was about to finish my essay, it suddenly died! It took away my whole morning’s work; I forgot to save it in time sad
    I hope you can get the job :heart:

  10. gravatar Dayna left a comment on June 6th, 2006 at 5:53 am :

    The problem with technologies these days - they aren’t really stable. I have been having problems with my laptop as well so.. I’m in the process of getting a new hard disk. Good luck with yours. )