p_o_b
03-19-2008, 02:27 AM
This is a tale of caution:
Don't strike your computer. Just don't do it. The momentary satisfaction will soon be replaced by terror and even deeper anger when things begin to fail.
I have a 23 month old 15" macbook pro that has served me faithfully for our entire relationship. Recently the left fan had taken to occasions of rattling but it wouldn't last long and the the monitors reported no slow down in the speed. So I disregarded it as a minor annoyance that I would deal with when I got around to it. Then last week I decided I would try out ustream for a project at work. Well as soon as I got the feed up and streaming the fan began to rattle. Not really that loud to me but the built in microphone transfered the sound so the feed sounded like it was coming from the back of an idling motorcycle. I gently tapped on the left speaker area thinking I might quiet the racket, but that only made it worse. I tapped harder but no change. I then got frustrated and smacked the blasted thing. Lo and behold the sound stopped.
All was right with the world, but soon the bad mojo began. Firefox crashed. Not that unusual, so I restarted and it crashed almost immediately. I launched safari to see if the internet was working and it ran with no complaints although it was a bit slow. I futzed around with firefox for a while then decided to download it again thinking something had corrupted. Still would not run. I tried camino with the same results. Then things got really weird, reboots took forever and several programs would not load including iTunes. I ran the disk utility and indeed some of the permissions were in need of repair so I repaired and restarted. STILL NO FIREFOX, safari would work without issue. I had just one week prior upgraded to Leopard and thought perhaps it was a bad install. Upon a fresh install firefox ran for about 30 seconds then crashed. All in all I must have tried to reinstall leopard about 5 times. Each time having to repair permissions on the disk. Eventually I decided that the hard drive had been damaged and researched replacing the drive. Extremetech has a very good article which happens to be the first google result for "replace macbook pro hard drive" I ordered the drive and it arrived the next day (being in the same state as Newegg's warehouse helps) (oh and Newegg rocks!) after installing the drive as per the article and reinstalling leopard one more time all is again right with the world.
The moral of the story:
Do not resort to physical abuse with your technology, use emotional abuse. Withhold affection or call it dirty names but for the love of God DON'T SMACK THAT MAC!
ds
Don't strike your computer. Just don't do it. The momentary satisfaction will soon be replaced by terror and even deeper anger when things begin to fail.
I have a 23 month old 15" macbook pro that has served me faithfully for our entire relationship. Recently the left fan had taken to occasions of rattling but it wouldn't last long and the the monitors reported no slow down in the speed. So I disregarded it as a minor annoyance that I would deal with when I got around to it. Then last week I decided I would try out ustream for a project at work. Well as soon as I got the feed up and streaming the fan began to rattle. Not really that loud to me but the built in microphone transfered the sound so the feed sounded like it was coming from the back of an idling motorcycle. I gently tapped on the left speaker area thinking I might quiet the racket, but that only made it worse. I tapped harder but no change. I then got frustrated and smacked the blasted thing. Lo and behold the sound stopped.
All was right with the world, but soon the bad mojo began. Firefox crashed. Not that unusual, so I restarted and it crashed almost immediately. I launched safari to see if the internet was working and it ran with no complaints although it was a bit slow. I futzed around with firefox for a while then decided to download it again thinking something had corrupted. Still would not run. I tried camino with the same results. Then things got really weird, reboots took forever and several programs would not load including iTunes. I ran the disk utility and indeed some of the permissions were in need of repair so I repaired and restarted. STILL NO FIREFOX, safari would work without issue. I had just one week prior upgraded to Leopard and thought perhaps it was a bad install. Upon a fresh install firefox ran for about 30 seconds then crashed. All in all I must have tried to reinstall leopard about 5 times. Each time having to repair permissions on the disk. Eventually I decided that the hard drive had been damaged and researched replacing the drive. Extremetech has a very good article which happens to be the first google result for "replace macbook pro hard drive" I ordered the drive and it arrived the next day (being in the same state as Newegg's warehouse helps) (oh and Newegg rocks!) after installing the drive as per the article and reinstalling leopard one more time all is again right with the world.
The moral of the story:
Do not resort to physical abuse with your technology, use emotional abuse. Withhold affection or call it dirty names but for the love of God DON'T SMACK THAT MAC!
ds