Happy April Fools’ Day!
I celebrated April Fools’ Day with the dreaded blue screen of death. No
problem, I reasoned, it’s just a glitch. Then it happened again… and
again… and again. Then my laptop wouldn’t even boot up. Then it
started working again, sort of. It would crash every time the laptop
moved or shook slightly. Then this morning, it completely zonked out.
And so I headed to "La Circle" in Accra, purchased a shaving brush and a
set of screwdrivers and went to work. I completely disassembled my
laptop, swept out all the dust and reassembled it. It limped back to
life, but was still giving me random crashes. Finally, after much trial
and error, I determined a certain area of the motherboard that was
causing the error when I pushed down on it. So, I cut off the end of my
toothbrush, wedged it inside against the problem area, screwed
everything back together and everything seems to be okay, as long as I
don’t jostle the computer or make any sudden movements it is happy. I’m
pretty sure it’s a loose contact somewhere, but it’s doubtful I’ll be
able to get my hands on a soldering iron with a superfine tip while I’m
in Ghana.
April 7th, 2009 at 4:42 am
that’s so ingenuous of you