Zephik
08-22-2007, 04:18 PM
So heres a funny little story about bad luck that all started with the want to mod my laptop. Yes, I know, its hard to believe that anything bad can come from the want to mod something.
So first, I had the great idea of having my laptop custom painted (which was a success, thnx Commando!). So I got my wish come true, my laptop now has a bitchin' paint job. But, somehow, that has triggered a series of unlucky and unfortunate events that should take place around my laptop and only my laptop.
Well, I guess lady luck was a little jealous of my now totally awesome laptop, because when I was putting the laptop back together, I ended up snapping the lcd frame thanks to a screw that didn't want to budge (I skipped it to come back to later(because I used the wrong screws, so I had to unscrew them all), but forgot it was there, then when I pulled on the frame to take it back off, SNAP). No biggy, I can still screw in the lcd to the laptops lid (luckily, nothing has happened to that). So now I'm at the point where I am trying to hook up my laptops keyboard back into the motherboard. Yea, well, I sort of pressed too hard I guess and the connection on the motherboard snapped off. Doh! Well, whatever I guess. I have a wireless keyboard and mouse that I can use, which I was using anyways because my mouse pad stopped working a bit before even having the idea of getting a custom paint job. So life isn't _too_ bad. I can still have a portable laptop because of the wireless keyboard and mouse.
Well, I seemed to have forgotten to reinstall my laptops optical drive. Haha, awesome. I TOTALLY know where I put that when I took it out during disassembly. ...on top of a bag full of junk that I was throwing away. lol Yep, you guessed it. I somehow ended up throwing away my laptops optical drive. I think it must of slipped in the bag with me unaware some how. Well, whatever, I'm taking that in stride too, because I never really used it. Duh, I can download everything I have on CD, because I own it, therefor, its not illegal. :-)
Well, my story doesn't end there unfortunately. As much bad luck as I've had within this two week period, more is still to come. Lady luck must be REALLY jealous at this point, probably because I haven't really shown any sign of disappointment.
So my favorite place to use my laptop, is on my bed. Well, it started overheating of course, but it wasn't just because it wasn't getting enough air. It wasn't getting any air over in the gpu department. The fan had stopped moving for some reason. So I open it up, cleaned out the dust, unplugged and replugged the connection, and voila. It works again. But my laptop was still overheating, this I knew, was because of not having proper airflow coming in from the bottom of the laptop. So I bring in these cool stools that are the same height of my bed and that also have a cool design in them that would allow proper airflow. How lucky is that? Well, not really. They turned out to be not very stable. As a result, I ended up putting one too many things on one side of the stool and down she went. CRASH! Okay, now I'm panicking. That wasn't a nice soft crash, that was an ugly crash that made a sickening noise. It turns out, my fears were right, the screen had shattered. ><!!!!
Lady luck had finally received her revenge for the jealousy of me having an awesome laptop.
omg... wait. I wonder what would happen... if I unplugged the monitor from the motherboard, then plugged in an external screen to the back of the laptop? Maybe, just maybe it will work!
Well, here I am. Obviously, it worked! HAHA! I am victorious! I don't have a laptop anymore sure, if you WANT to see that as a negative be my guest. But *I* am looking at it like this. I now have the smallest desktop of anyone I know AND it has a bitchin' paint job. :D
Sorry that I didn't spend more time writing that up. Usually I can write up a pretty decent story thats easy on the eyes and the mind. But I don't feel like being articulate or well spoken, so tough beans. :P
So first, I had the great idea of having my laptop custom painted (which was a success, thnx Commando!). So I got my wish come true, my laptop now has a bitchin' paint job. But, somehow, that has triggered a series of unlucky and unfortunate events that should take place around my laptop and only my laptop.
Well, I guess lady luck was a little jealous of my now totally awesome laptop, because when I was putting the laptop back together, I ended up snapping the lcd frame thanks to a screw that didn't want to budge (I skipped it to come back to later(because I used the wrong screws, so I had to unscrew them all), but forgot it was there, then when I pulled on the frame to take it back off, SNAP). No biggy, I can still screw in the lcd to the laptops lid (luckily, nothing has happened to that). So now I'm at the point where I am trying to hook up my laptops keyboard back into the motherboard. Yea, well, I sort of pressed too hard I guess and the connection on the motherboard snapped off. Doh! Well, whatever I guess. I have a wireless keyboard and mouse that I can use, which I was using anyways because my mouse pad stopped working a bit before even having the idea of getting a custom paint job. So life isn't _too_ bad. I can still have a portable laptop because of the wireless keyboard and mouse.
Well, I seemed to have forgotten to reinstall my laptops optical drive. Haha, awesome. I TOTALLY know where I put that when I took it out during disassembly. ...on top of a bag full of junk that I was throwing away. lol Yep, you guessed it. I somehow ended up throwing away my laptops optical drive. I think it must of slipped in the bag with me unaware some how. Well, whatever, I'm taking that in stride too, because I never really used it. Duh, I can download everything I have on CD, because I own it, therefor, its not illegal. :-)
Well, my story doesn't end there unfortunately. As much bad luck as I've had within this two week period, more is still to come. Lady luck must be REALLY jealous at this point, probably because I haven't really shown any sign of disappointment.
So my favorite place to use my laptop, is on my bed. Well, it started overheating of course, but it wasn't just because it wasn't getting enough air. It wasn't getting any air over in the gpu department. The fan had stopped moving for some reason. So I open it up, cleaned out the dust, unplugged and replugged the connection, and voila. It works again. But my laptop was still overheating, this I knew, was because of not having proper airflow coming in from the bottom of the laptop. So I bring in these cool stools that are the same height of my bed and that also have a cool design in them that would allow proper airflow. How lucky is that? Well, not really. They turned out to be not very stable. As a result, I ended up putting one too many things on one side of the stool and down she went. CRASH! Okay, now I'm panicking. That wasn't a nice soft crash, that was an ugly crash that made a sickening noise. It turns out, my fears were right, the screen had shattered. ><!!!!
Lady luck had finally received her revenge for the jealousy of me having an awesome laptop.
omg... wait. I wonder what would happen... if I unplugged the monitor from the motherboard, then plugged in an external screen to the back of the laptop? Maybe, just maybe it will work!
Well, here I am. Obviously, it worked! HAHA! I am victorious! I don't have a laptop anymore sure, if you WANT to see that as a negative be my guest. But *I* am looking at it like this. I now have the smallest desktop of anyone I know AND it has a bitchin' paint job. :D
Sorry that I didn't spend more time writing that up. Usually I can write up a pretty decent story thats easy on the eyes and the mind. But I don't feel like being articulate or well spoken, so tough beans. :P