Computer problems

For the past few days, my blogging frequency has decreased. Weird problems with my computer were one of the reasons. The thing I most hate is any kind of aberration in my computer, it totally disrupts my routine. Usually any computer problem seems weird and leaves me at my wits end; still I feel I always have the weirdest problems when it comes to ‘my’ computer.

Once I remember, the whole display of my office computer went upside down, a perfect 180 degree. There is no way it can happen with any available settings. The systems people, when they saw it, termed it as the issue of the year and laughed for good amount of time. They later formatted the system and installed the Windows again.

If it is a hardware issue (which itself is an issue to determine), at least the manufacturer warranty covers it. It is that software or operating system issue, which leaves me completely helpless. Thanks to those myriad discussion forums on internet, you can post your issues and someone will help you. But my issues have often proved to be a tough nut to crack, even for them.

The latest issue I had was one of such kind. After booting, things would run fine for just few minutes and after that, there would no sound device, no networking installed or configured and God knows what else! I kept on restarting, for the computer to work fine only for few minutes. Even the IP address would become 0.0.0.0. I perused many discussion forums, posted my querry and did whatever I could. One suggestion I got said the mother board of my laptop has gone corrupt! After using information from many forums, I could at least solve half of the jigsaw puzzle. I found where my sound device suddenly goes after few minutes of restart? The services corresponding to sound, networking and DHCP (?) would stop by itself. When I manually started them, all of these started to work fine. But the question, why they stop automatically or what stops them automatically is still unsolved? I have not restarted my computer since then; I just keep it in ‘stand-by’ or ‘hibernate’ mode. It will again take a full day to find out the answer.

I know people say that Windows is not the best available thing, MAC notebooks are better or Linux is better operating system. But trust me, for a normal computer literate person like me, Windows is the most convenient one. You got to hand it to Gates; it was not his technical skill but his marketing skill which made him the richest man. So even with the deficiencies or loop-holes, Windows has the ease of use. It does give me issues from time to time, but what thing does not?

I hope to find the resolution for the latest issues very soon.