A few months ago, I left the room for a few minutes, with the computer on. When I came back, the screen was black, and the computer was making much less noise than it should be making. The tower has two lights on it: the green, solid light, and the orange, blinky light. This time, ol’Blinky was solid, just like Mr Green next to him. I was forced to do a hard shut down, and when I tried to turn it on again, it refused. It took about a half an hour to get it to turn on, and when it did, I saw that the weirdness had only just begun.
The “picture” on the monitor does not stay in place. Sometimes, it “drops,” where the picture seems to slide down below the screen, and the top part only remains. Sometimes, it “jumps” clear through the top of the monitor, and only the bottom half is visible. Sometimes, black bars appear. Sometimes, it plain old disappears, leaving the monitor black, with spots of light purple or a big while halo in the middle.
Ok, I decided, I need a new monitor.
Until about a week later, when I was sitting in front of the computer innocently writing a paper. Click, scrape, whoooooooooooooosh! The monitor went black, and the computer was eerily silent. Blinky was now solid. Hard shut down, waited half an hour, and I was good to go. I call these freak outs.
Once every few weeks, the computer would bug out like that, and nearly every day the picture on the monitor would slide around. I would be convinced that it was a monitor problem only if it weren’t for the noises the computer makes and the solid orange light. I had no idea what the problem is, but my mother insists that it’s my fault, because I don’t use the computer right. She says I “type too fast,” and that’s what makes it crash. However, she also thinks that I make the computer crash by having a desktop that’s blue, so whatever. :rolleyes:
In reality, I think I’m pretty good to my computer. I don’t have any unnecessary stuff installed on it. In fact, the only programs I run regularly are Word, Excel, AOL, IE and Winamp. Maybe I should say ran regularly, because at the beginning of last week, both AOL and Winamp stopped running. They can’t be started up at all. Ok…fine. Piece of useless shit is now down to running only 2/5 of the programs I use, and when they are running, damned if I can see them on the motherfucking monitor.
And by the middle of last week, my computer had gone from freaking out once every other week or so, to once every few hours. Last night, while I was trying to get my work done, it was going at the rate of about once every 45 minutes. Finally, I went totally apeshit and decided I was NOT starting it up again. Instead, I decided to relax by watching TV. Except…
The fucking TV wouldn’t turn on. Yeah, that happens fairly often, too. I’ll turn the TV off at night, and in the morning, it won’t go back on. A week later, I’ll give it a try, and lo, and behold! It’s back.
What the shit?!
