My laptop computer did something extremely ungood. I had tethered my smartphone to the machine and was transferring a photograph from my phone when all hell broke loose. At once, everything on the screen began jostling back and forth rapidly. The open windows, icons, and folders on my desktop all distorted themselves into a constant blur. The Esc key didn’t work. Ctrl–Alt–Delete failed.
Finally,
I resorted to jamming down the power button for several seconds, which forced a
hard shutdown and instantly sucked the screen to black. After a mini-debate
with myself, I poked the power button again to see if my machine would blossom
back to normal operation.
Nope.
After
the machine chased its tail for a minute or so, a message on the screen
informed me it “couldn’t connect with the network.” I took a second run at
rebooting and achieved the same result. Following that, I shut the laptop down
for good.
This
trouble makes perfect sense when you consider that my factory warranty recently
expired. I’m on my own with this one and will be taking my machine to the
computer shop today. At present, I’m writing this on my old laptop, which is
limping a little and bumping into things as we proceed. But at least I’m not
entirely dead in the water. I’m sharing a photograph of the message I got on
the screen of my broken laptop.
—Mitchell
Hegman
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