General DAH on 23 Jan 2007 10:34 pm
Back on my old laptop
About a week ago or so my old laptop died on me. Too many years of abuse and rough handling had finally done it in. I know of at least 8 times when i was watching a video on my laptop before i went to sleep, and awoke in the morning to find it lying on the floor… needless to say the harddrive suffered a head-crash, or something similar. Hitachi even has audio clips of the various dying harddrive noises!
Yesterday i finally got tired of lugging my work laptop home, and ordered a new hard drive from newegg. Top of the line 80 Gb Hitachi drive, and it only cost me $99.28 after shipping. It arrived at my work today (gotta love newegg’s fast shipping!) and i have spent the evening getting it re-installed and running. My last major task i want to undertake with this sucker is to figure out a way to improve its air-flow. My silly old emachines laptop has one major shortcoming – the case was not designed with airflow in mind, and when ever doing cpu intensive things, such as video editing, my laptop tends to overheat and shut off to protect itself. This overheating may have contributed to the initial hard drive failture as well. I hope to figure out some fancy way of cuting strategic holes in the laptop body to improve this situation… maybe a custom paint job would be fun too?
Well, my dinner needs to come out of the oven, and then i am gonna watch last nights episode of 24!
