For Whom The Bell Tolls
I thought this an ominous sign.
My computer crashed today. Hard. The hard drive made two clicks and a clunk, and was no more. Subsequent attempts to reboot were met with partial loading screens before the gasps of dying hardware again made themselves known. Soon, there was nothing but clicks.
Fortunately I'm paranoid. About two weeks ago I heard the loud knocks, few and far between, definitely abnormal. Within seconds of each, the operating system would lock. I thought this an ominous sign.
So I bought an external hard drive, and backed up my entire hard disk. Had I not done this, I would now be writhing in bitter agony on the carpet of my apartment, wailing a dirge for my many, many gigabytes of precious data.
The hard drive is one of a series of failures of my current computer over the past several months. It was a system I put together around two and a half years ago and was beginning to show its age. I've ordered a new computer. Unfortunately it won't be here for another two weeks. The specs you ask? But of course, I answer:
- AMD Athlon™ 64 3200+ operating at 2.0GHz
- 1 GB DDR / PC3200 (2 DIMM)
- 160 GB 7200 rpm Ultra DMA Hard Drive
- 16X max. DVD-ROM Drive
- 8X DVD+RW/+R drive (DVD writer & CD-writer combo)
- Front USB, Firewire and Audio Ports
- 7-in-1 Card Reader
- 128MB DDR NVIDIA GeForceFX ™ 5200XT, TV-Out
- Integrated 5.1 Capable Sound w/Front Audio ports
- Nifty silver and black coloring