I have had my current laptop since August of 2004, the year I started college. It is a teal green Toshiba, a sexy, middle of the road model that turned me on while still making good economic sense.
Over the last 5 and 1/2 years, it has graduated from the shiny, sticker-covered virgin I started with, to a battered, truck-stop, bunny-buckle warrior. It has flown on more planes and seen more countries then most people see in their lives. For that time, it was my “everything”, lover, connection to people back home as i jetted around the world, media outlet, news source.
And this morning, there were the fatal clicks of hard drive fail, coupled with a complete systems crash and a cyclic, mammoth attempt at disk-checking. Normally, I would just replace the hard drive and reinstall windows, but unfortunately, the following things are ALSO wrong:
- Monitor light burned out six months ago. I have another monitor plugged into the side, but that won’t work without drivers – which won’t be installed after a clean wipe. How will I see?
- Keyboard has several keys that don’t work. Have keyboard plugged into the side, but I think it also needs drivers.
- CD Drive doesn’t work – it only spins part of the way up. As such, can’t really use XP CD.
- USB Ports have some issue with them and tend to shock people.
But I’m afraid, so afraid to let go of XP.
Help, its dark in here…
