TECHNOLOGY/THIS HAPPENED TO ME
I used to be dreading the worst however hoping for one of the best
The dread of worrying in case your laptop computer goes to work once more. I’m certain nobody needs to really feel that. I bought my laptop computer earlier this 12 months to switch my previous one which was working advantageous however we couldn’t return them. It is a lengthy story, however I wrote an entire factor about it final 12 months.
Earlier than I bought on my laptop once more to write down this very Medium story, my laptop computer was fully darkish. I went into full panic mode. Mike wasn’t freaking out however I used to be absolutely freaking out. I do all of my stuff on the laptop computer. I write and edit on it. I additionally watch my reveals and work together with my many Medium buddies on Discord via it. I couldn’t watch it die a sudden and tragic loss of life.
Mike needed to do one thing about it and I wanted my connection to the world once more. In spite of everything, I used to be panicking earlier when my management button stopped working. I didn’t want one other factor to go improper with my laptop on the identical day. But right here I used to be watching as we tirelessly however unsuccessfully saved attempting to energy it on.
It felt prefer it was attempting to come back on however one thing was stopping it from approaching. At one level, Mike thought that perhaps my method of shutting it down fully froze it and he’d should open every part up. He took his screwdriver and took all of the bolts out and opened my case. He first took out some energy connectors, some keyboard connectors, and even my RAM at one level to examine to see if resetting any of this may assist.
It nonetheless didn’t work. We have been again to sq. one attempting to get it to work. It took round 45 minutes and he tried every part he may. He had already related, reset, and disconnected every part. All we would have liked was one final hope and a last-second miracle or a minimum of that’s how I noticed it.
It lastly got here again on. I’m so fortunate that I’ve a tech-savvy man to assist with this form of factor. I most likely would’ve despatched this laptop again up to now and even worse taken it to a store the place they most likely would’ve found out the issue as rapidly as Mike did. And they’d’ve charged me a whole bunch of {dollars} within the course of.
I imply, a takeaway for readers, is to both get good at determining the way to troubleshoot laptop points or simply have a tech-savvy associate round that will help you repair it when it goes improper. I want I had completed extra with computer systems once I was youthful.
I used to be already born into the technology that was anticipated to take a lot of these laptop jobs again within the day (I’m an older millennial who graduated highschool on the flip of the century). I simply by no means capitalized on that trade.
I’ve discovered issues right here and there and having a educated technological thoughts round is certainly an enormous benefit. I may most likely nonetheless be taught one thing from him. I did undoubtedly be taught one factor from him immediately.
Don’t ever improperly restart or shut down your laptop or else you can spend minutes and even hours attempting to revive your laptop. I discovered this lesson the laborious method and I’ll ensure to fully shut down my laptop the following time.
Now sufficient scares whereas I’m nonetheless recovering from the flu. I don’t want all this laptop hassle proper now.
