story of chips

For the last couple days, I 've crazed by my IBM laptop. Changeable and hard to predict it has become. Sometimes, I found it's so hard to turn it on, waiting for the startup, and there were so often moments error stopped all operations for no reasons seemingly.

My first reaction was God, I must be attacked by outbreaks of viruses. For my computer had not large hard drives for huge antivirus softwares, and if I did, as I did now, the machine worked so so slow. I installed from disc, norton, avp and others from the net, but all showed I had no threats. Good news.

So it must be the techinical problems, as indicated on the error pages, varied from time to time. Since I could not get on the net, I had to go to a night public net cafe at 1 am, to seek some repair stores information. Of course I did find some help but the next hours till 7 am I watched some movies, comforting one night craziess doesn't kill.

I noticed the streets out of the cafe became brighter and brighter as my stomach felt emptier and emptier. In the end I kinda crawled out and had a big breadfast. One hour's sleep before I packed my machine and poped on the bus to electronics market.

It was on the third floor of the market. The staff was very patient and helpful. He checked with ghost softward and concluded that one of the two memories chip must be corrupted. He pulled one out and installed the operating system again. And he also helped contacting some stores for new chips( of course he would make some profits). He called twice and the second store was closer to the market. He turned off his ibm x right on the table and left to fetch it.

I must be so very trustworthy to him, as he dared to leave his whole store and computers to me, with no one at guard either. Minutes later he returned but complained the store gave wrong info on the phone.

He was not to blame but my old machine about 10 year old. He regretedly asked to be cool with the possible result that xp could be running slowlier.

It wasn't fun to travel at noon time aross the city from the market in the west part of the city back to where I live. But I felt great. My laptop was reborn with new life. But, as soon as I powered on, the error page showed again. And again and again, after I tried to switch it on, off and on, off, among which, some worked but not long. Despressed I had a nap; and I was planning to have a new computer. So my afternoon was spent in two computer stores closeby.

I don't know from where I had such a mad idea. When I came back home,I took away the one thought to be good, but put back the diagonised chip. It seems all righ now, after two hours.

God bless me!