:: What becomes of the broken-parted? ::

Thursday, July 03, 2003

Well, after 18 months of dragging it around almost every day during subway commutes, 3-mile walks home, picnics in the park, and bunny-exterminations, my trusty laptop finally decided to up and semi-break* on me. I can't really express dissatisfaction as I've treated it like a basketball, and I doubt, despite those lousy Dell ads informing us that each model undergoes a one-on-one cage match with the Hulk to prove its durability, that it was designed to take the amount of abuse I doled out to it. Anyway, my presence in all forms digital might atrophy over nights & weekends, especially during long stretches of "relaxation" like the patriotic celebration which now looms large. Other than that, it should not impede much blogging, other than precluding me from uploading pictures. I shudder to think what this is going to cost me.

* It seems like there's a loose connection somewhere affecting the video card. The machine will run fine for a few minutes before freezing with streaks on the display. After a reboot (i.e. removing both batteries and disconnecting the power supply), Windows kindly tells me the nVida driver is at fault, but since I haven't had a single problem with the driver since buying the computer (and since I've changed nothing software-related in a while) I suspect hardware is the culprit.

Posted by morland @ 05:53 PM

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