Dear Computer...

[rj_anderson]

...I understand that you've been trying to get my attention for some time now, what with the odd noises and all, but really, I think things have gone a little too far.

Yeah, you crashed just before I went to bed last night, and I had to reboot you, but that's pretty standard fare. I really don't think it was adequate warning for what happened half an hour later, when I heard a distant "beep" and got up to see what was going on, only to find BLACK SMOKE POURING OUT OF YOU. Not to mention that lovely lovely smell of burning ozone.

It was nice of you to keep running Scandisk while this was going on, so as to let me know that the CPU and power supply were still working, but since I didn't have time to do anything but dive for the off switch and then disconnect all my peripherals post-haste, that doesn't tell me if my hard drive with the latest chapter of Knife and the graphic design work I was doing for a client (none of which I'd yet backed up anywhere) is still alive or not.

In short, NO LOVE, computer. NO LOVE.

Posted from my parents' ancient and horribly slow computer downstairs, with which I fear I will be stuck for a few days yet.

Comments

[peacockharpy.livejournal.com]

Oh no!

I feel your pain. Actually, it would be more exact to say I fear your pain, as my computer is doing ominous clicky things these days. I am now the backup queeeeeeeeeeeeeeen.

[kerravonsen]

Oh dear, it let out the magic smoke! Not a good sign.

[lydaclunas.livejournal.com]

I know I shouldn't laugh at your splodey computer misfortune, but the tag "things that blowed up real good" made me crack up.

[rj-anderson.livejournal.com]

SCTV is always in fashion.

[owl]

I hope that your hard drive is still okay!

[mary-j-59.livejournal.com]

Oh, gosh, how awful! And *I* was upset when my superdrive went up in smoke in the process of transferring files to my new computer! At least *it* was merely a portable storage device (horrible english) not an actual hard drive. I really hope you can recover all your files and programs.

[--kali--.livejournal.com]

Really, on a scale of 1 to 10 smoke is never good. At least it went out with a bang and not a whimper.

[sreya.livejournal.com]

Is your computer a Dell? I was just reading an article about how Dell put out a recall on a particular kind of laptop battery because it was exploding.

[duchessdollydot.livejournal.com]

Wow, your computer sounds really... agitated.