It has been really long since I last posted on this blog (Last post was on 14th Oct, so we can safely assume that it has been actually pretty long 😛 ). Title of the post explains pretty much of the stuff and this post may also appear to be the same ie crap :D. Not much stuff to write but yes a lot of, to tell that why this long gap. There was so much of crap to see in last one month or so. First it was the RnD to buy a new Computer and then not being able to buy it because of unavailability of one component or the another. Finally when i succeeded in buying it and came back home, the keyboard & mouse was found to be used and defective. So had to go back immediately and get a new one. Not a good start probably. Then started the struggle of installing some OS. Not a big deal but another beauty to see that the system kept rebooting randomly. Tried switching OSes but to no avail. Then started adding, removing, adding again, removing again the RAM sticks and so on some 100 times 😉 . Again no results and the focus shifted to motherboard. Finally it was declared that there was something fishy with the motherboard and it was the cause of this reboot thing. Did and made some people do some real good RnD and decided to buy another motherboard that supported the hardware properly. So went to Nehru Place and some dishoom dishoom with the dealer and finally succeeded in getting a new different motherboard. Now things should look good. Oh yes, the problem of rebooting was gone but Windows stared freezing randomly, again without any pattern or logic. So now what ? I was just thinking that what could be the game that noticed something crappy with the Hard disk. Ran some utilities and they told that the end of the hard disk was near 😉 . Oh noooooo. Time to replace even the hard disk. So again went to the dealer. Explained him the issue (That this particular SMART attribute of HDD is not ok…heavy stuff 😉 ). And he asked me to go to Seagate service center and submit it. Man it was like a kerosene distribution depot in India. So many people in queue to submit their defective disks (And from there you can pretty much guess the quality, Seagate is delivering these days 😉 ). Finally after a week or so, got a new refurbished (yea, refurbished, not brand new 🙁 ) Hard disk, installed it and i guess (yea guess 😉 ) it seems to work fine. Windows did freeze once or twice initially but since then it has not shown those strains. Does that mean that the crap has ended ? You never know ! Hopefully, it has ;).
& I am going to be regular again, again hopefully ;).
November 17, 2009 at 8:58 pm
u blogging after veeeery long time…
man ur PC is like modern Mahabharat !
Good luck bhaji. like the dishum dushum 😀
December 3, 2009 at 9:41 pm
Things seems to have settled down, hopefully :-s
November 18, 2009 at 2:35 am
it happens only in india. 🙂
December 3, 2009 at 9:41 pm
hahaha yo yo 😀
November 19, 2009 at 6:39 pm
Hope pc vows go away asap. And much hopefully , we are going to see a lot of technical posts comin from you as well (you know the reason why ) ;-).
December 3, 2009 at 9:42 pm
Hopefully 🙁 🙂