Adeiu to the warrior…v1.0

Hi everyone,

The days have come when all of us have enthralled in the happiness of getting what we most want without even asking for it. Sometimes, this is usually more than what we expect. I was no exception three years back, when I got my laptop from my uncle in Singapore. A HP Pavillion dv8319tx, 17″ wide-screen laptop powered by an Intel Core duo processor and a mind blowing nVidia Geforce Go 7600 graphics card. It easily became the most powerful laptop then, and I enjoyed it! An up gradation from the old 133Mhz Pentium(R) Processor with 80MB RAM, it was one big step. No game became unplayable and space never was an issue. Sometimes mistaken for a ‘brick’, with weight of about 2kg, I never had a problem carrying it around. It became one of my great friends with whom I spend a lot of time gaming, working, watching movie, etc.

All great things must end, so did this great warrior friend of mine. In the early hours of August 12th, 2008, while tackling a canyon course in NFS CARBON, my laptop took its last breath after which it drifted into a coma with messed up graphics! With nothing much to do, I was forced to pull the cord, and soon it was over. The next day presented with complete errors with display to be precise, pink lines, broken lines, wrong alphabets, and filled with exclamation marks. Soon, I took it to Dr. Hari, who rendered the diagnosis as irreparable damage to the graphics card which is integrated to the motherboard. This meant, that if I had to bring it back to life, I will have to have miracles happen in my life, again to be precise, 1)Graphics Card getting fixed by itself or 2) Rs20,000 aka USD500 at my disposal. The three years of flawless service comes to an end. But still again, the laptop does not leave me. It decides to give one last try so that I do not give up hope on it. And here I am, using Ubuntu (linux) with restricted graphics. Still making me happy by allowing me to work, watch a movie, and most importantly gifted me with zero data loss from my previous OS. Even after all this I still address my laptop as it which I am rightfully stopping to admit that I ain’t giving up any hope on him, he is still the best!!

~ by Petti on August 14, 2008.