If you enjoy watching a grown man cry.
Sep 30th, 2008 by Peter
. You should have been around me yesterday. After 4-5 hours of writing a review of the new Acer Predator on my laptop, it suddenly died. Bluescreen and all.
It tried to reboot but nothing helped. Couldn’t even get to where it repaired the hard drive. The bluescreen gave random error descriptions every time, but it looked like hardware trouble. I figured it could be either memory or hard disk issues, so removed half the memory twice, with no effect.
Then after repetitive retries, it suddenly booted only to crash as I pointed my mouse on the document with the review. Doh.
The semi-success made me a bit optimistic, so tried rebooting plenty of times and at last it came around and I managed to drag the document to C computer (on the net). Then as I released the mouse crash.
The document was saved though, and even though I still lost worth 1½ hours work (didn’t save a long time, as I was caught up in writing), I saved twice that. Better than starting all over, right?
It seems that I got the machine up again, and by deleting some .tmp files in the user catalogue. Still crossing my fingers. That will be decided by trial and error the next days.
Still a major DOH, and yes, I almost cried.
wah wah … crybaby :-)
Die… die!!! :)