Author Topic: My Computer may die  (Read 4040 times)

You think being 'abusive' to a computer breaks it well yes by dropping it 4 times indeed, but overuse like I have caused on mine for the warranty to be used by apple two different times to replace parts inside for free.  I have corrupted its HDD by overuse causing an I/O error thus corrupting it and I have as well caused my CD/DVD drive to stop burning causing it to burn out lol pun completely intended.  I currently have a 500GB internal HDD with my partiton of 120GB that I have had even before the corruption.  I barely have any memory remaning as apple looked at me strangely enough, they literally asked me "How do you have this many files on your computer?"  I told the guy "I do quite a bit of video editing and photo storage" which is true lol.  Don't just say "typical mac's" this thing has lasted 3 years so far and can still do tasks you wouldn't normally see it even able to do as in it plays gta 4 on my windows xp partition at a solid 30 fps settings at lowest because the GPU only has 256 mb VRAM.

Pic's of my remaining space and current partition according to my HDD:



First: There was a warning message, Second my dad explained to me it MAY die.
From reading your posts, I see you have a laptop. Laptops die faster than desktops. I am not talking about virues here, I am talking about hardware failure. The most common part of the computer that fails, is the screen. Unless it is backlit, it will fail after a couple years of usage. When playing games on laptops, they tend to over heat faster than a desktop will and if your laptop is too hot, the computer will turn off automactlly. The computer does this to stop the circut board from getting too hot. The 2nd most common thing to fail on a laptop, is the hard drive. Once the hard drive fails, the hard drive will never work again and your operating system can never boot up. This only really happens if your laptop is really old or your computer over heats too much. Other things that will be worn out on your laptop over the years are:
Some of your keyboard keys will be broken if you press on that key too much.
Your laptop's battery will soon only work 5 or so mins before the computer has to turn off if its not plugged in.
If you mess around with your laptop charger's cable too much, your charger slot may stop working, thus your computer has trouble charging.

I have experenced all of these problems, and I had 2 laptops die. I've had so many computers over the years and so many computer failures. I suggest backing up the files you wish to keep on a external hard drive or on multiple computers, so if you ever find out your computer won't turn on, atleast you have your files. You may not be lucky if you don't do so because I had a computer fail on me and I didn't even back up anything. I lost lots of files cause I didn't do so. If you don't want to break your keyboard keys, I suggest buying a USB keyboard and play games on that. Trust me, I broke several laptop keyboard keys off cause I pressed on it way too many times. Also your laptop's mouse can break too, so if you buy a USB mouse you can also protect your laptop's mouse. Don't mess around with your laptop's charger too much cause that happend way too often to me, and I had a laptop that couldn't charge anymore just because I moved the cable around too much. The best thing you can do for your laptop is, just try to be gentle with all things involving your laptop. Laptops break far more often than desktops do.

I droped it by accident and it was on my bed so it was a soft surface.

Aside from what Waldo said, I would do a virus scan for sure.

Also backup important stuff onto an external hard drive or drop box or something before its too late.

I would do a virus scan for sure.
And I recommend you to use non-stuffty AV software's.