My computer died two days ago. Two and half years, and it deservers all the rest it can get.. like the other five or six computers I was able to take down in my odd twenty years with computers (well... actually seven or eight, but those were just mother boards.) One such story involves a kid (me) with an army man above my computer (which was about 8 feet up through a hole in the wall) and I was dropping him down, tried to get him up(first by long pole, and then I went down to get him I think), ended up pressing the reset button while doing so, and poof, there went the computer. This was about what happened to every computer in my childhood (I took out three computers in nine years) before. I am now forbidden to touch my Dad’s computers due to it.
One night a while ago, I had two mother boards that I was working with, and my computer. I managed to fry one (smoke came out of it due to mismatching the power box and the mother board), the other just died (would not work) and the last one (the computer that died two days ago), had it’s innards sticking out from a break on the part connecting the two pieces a wire had been broken, I touched it while it was on and there were pretty sparks...
and my finger was now burn somewhat through and black.
So this is why this computer (which is now probably famous at every Apple certified repair place in GA) which has had the screen cracked from the body three separate times, (one time for three months it was held together by nothing but duct tape and sheer will) and has other maladies (burns, restarting every time it moved, and it’s usual load of being used every second of the day that I was awake). My friends are even buying Mac’s on the premise it’s survived me this long, it’s survive them forever.
And the funny part is? I want to be a web designer.
My advice? See post #2 and find out who makes that computer.
How the heck does pressing the Reset button fry the computer? You’d think if it could do that, they’d have left it off entirely.