About my old computer.

My first computer was a gift from my mother, exactly ten years ago. It was before Christmas in December 2007, and definitely had to be one of my happiest days. I didn’t need to go to a cyber café anymore to do my homework, or to play pc games.

The first time it started to go wrong was three years afterwards. I was disheartened at those blue screens ruining my life time and time again. Once I got it fixed, it continued working for five more years, although those blue screens still appeared. Many times my computer suddenly turned off, and I must have lost many projects for that reason.

Anyway, during all that time I never took my computer to be serviced. I just solved everything by hardly hitting the CPU. Also it was kind of therapeutic. Finally in 2015 my old computer died. The technician told me that he couldn’t fix it. The only solution was to buy a motherboard which was very expensive. It wasn’t worth it.

So I bought a computer, my first laptop. It still works just fine. The blue screens are in the past, but I had always had the idea of bringing my old tech friend back to life. It would serve just for pretty basic tasks though. Technology advances and those devices that you bought only a year ago now seem too old.

I don’t know why, but something told me that I could do it by myself without it being necessary to buy a motherboard or any hardware. It was a software problem. So earlier this year I did what everyone else would do in my position: look for tutorials on Youtube. I spent hours of my summer vacation trying to find a solution, also reading post after post in blogs. With such an old interface that makes you cry.

Eventually I managed to download a repair CD-Rom. I set up the computer and turned it on. I inserted the cd, and it was working! The Windows 7 logo appeared on the screen, waiting for me to complete steps. I was kind of reaching a nirvana, but it all fell down when I restarted my PC. A new error had replaced the old one. And once I solved that, another one.

Since February I have tried to fix it from time to time. Each time with all my faith put into both that freaking cd and myself. All in vain, but I persisted as if nothing had happened. In the end, last month I decided to give up. I’m thinking about calling a technician to do what I couldn’t.

But at least I tried. I just hope my notebook works fine for a long time because I know that despite everything, I would go through the whole process again