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Sunday, June 20, 2010

Like London buses

7:26 PM / Technology / 2 Comments

They say that when it rains, it pours. Or, in my case, when one computer component fails, another one won't be far behind it. Last weekend, it was my six-week-old motherboard. This weekend, it was the hard drive in my laptop, barely two months old itself. For some time, it had been making alarming clicking and squeaking noises, and recently had developed an irritating tendency to randomly not appear when the machine was booting, requiring a restart. This morning, I switched it on only to find that the performance was abysmal, with frequent, inexplicable freezes and a general sense of sluggishness. I decided to perform a diagnostic test on it using Seagate's SeaTools software. A couple of minutes later, it failed the short DST (diagnostic self test). At this point I promptly prised it out of the laptop and contacted Ebuyer about an RMA.

So, once again I'm without a laptop. The most annoying part of it is that this drive was itself bought to replace one that had failed, albeit in a more extreme manner. I doubt it could possibly be the case, but I really hope there's not some fault in the laptop itself that is periodically shafting hard disks.

June 2010: the month in which not just one but two computers went tits-up on me.

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