My computer gave up the ghost this evening. We had some sort of power surge, and it appears to have fried my power supply — thankfully, it seems to just be the power supply and nothing else, but we had a lot of "fun" trying to diagnose the issue and blowing the fuses in every kettle lead we had in the process.
I can't imagine a life without computers, but dear God if I don't fucking hate what we now know as "the PC" sometimes. I think back to the good old days of the dear Atari 8-bit and ST, and they either worked or they didn't. (Well, okay, the ST's myriad compatibility issues depending on what day of the week it was were a bit silly, but you could learn to live with them.)
In my experience though? PCs break for seemingly no reason. One morning you'll try and turn it on and it just goes "nah". In the last couple of years I've had my computer forget it had a hard drive, forget it had an operating system, refuse to display things properly and, as we stand now, refuse to turn on altogether. It's immensely frustrating, because you don't realise how much of your life sits on those little no-longer-beige boxes until you're suddenly confronted with the possibility that you might not be able to access their contents any more. PC Master Race my arse.
With any luck, it is just the power supply and not a fried motherboard or any other components. The various tests Andie and I ran this evening would appear to suggest that is the case, but we'll have to wait and see. Hopefully I'll be able to collect some components from our local(ish) computer emporium tomorrow and give them a go, and all being well that should get Peashy mk. 2 up and running again. It's not as if I'm spending a lot of money right now what with not going out or driving to work, but it's still £100 I could have done without having to spend!
Oh well. It is what it is.
Thankfully, I got everything I wanted to achieve out of the way before this happened tonight! "Normal service" may be disrupted for a day or two, however, so please understand if… things are a bit more sporadic than usual! 🙂
Anyway, as irritated as I am right now, there's nothing else I can do at the moment, so I guess there's nothing for it but to sit in bed and play retro games. Oh no!
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