As soon as I fix a problem with my laptop another one seems to arise. For a couple of months now I’ve been having issues with my laptop crashing over and over again. At first I blamed it on running too many applications. Then I thought it was a faulty pirated copy of AVG Pro. But I finally located the real cause of the problem a few days ago. My laptop was overheating due to overuse and bad maintenance.
So I bought an Orion Notebook Cooler. I’ll be writing a full review soon with pictures but for the time being I’ll just say that it’s a silver slab which sits at an angle and propels air upwards. Sit your laptop on it and the components will be kept cool.
After the laptop cooler was set up, the crashing stopped instantly. But twice today I’ve had a blue screen of death abruptly shut down my system. This laptop may be only a year old but it’s gone thru a lot of formatting. It started with Windows Vista OEM before being upgraded to Windows 7. Then I downgraded to Windows XP, before migrating to Linux Mint 8, and then coming back to XP. That’s a lot of formatting.
Whether the formatting has lead to some sort of corruption or wearing out of the hard disk or various other internal components is beyond me. I’m far too scared to take a peek inside lest I cause further damage.
But I think I can live with one or two BSODs here and there.
Meanwhile, my Skypephone S2 seems to enjoy receiving text messages twice and this is making my inbox fill up, in turn, slowing down Amoi. Why, oh why, technology, do you always fail so badly?
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