My Computer

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Current revision as of 15:38, 1 September 2009

My computer was the natural, and much-needed successor of the notoriously shitty Compaq 500 (errors). My Computer did, however, include the old box of Compaq 500 (errors) since the hardware of the new computer was built inside of it. The computer was, as one would guess, a custom-job by a certain friend of my parents. I also had to keep the half-broken and shitty Compaq-monitor for this computer, which was only recently replaced by a flat screen monitor.

My Computer was certainly, looking back at it now, a step in the right direction: 2 Ghz Pentium processor and about 50 G's of hard drive space. The amount of RAM was a problem at first yet again, but some more was purchased when Deus Ex wouldn't run fast enough anymore. One of the sadder things about My Computer was, that it had Windows 2000 as the operating system since I didn't have Windows 98 or XP at that time. The use of Win 2000 was a major problem in terms of gameplay, since 99% of all the games that I tried to play wouldn't run on it. The graphics card on the machine wasn't that good at all for new and modern games, but I believe that if I could've had a better OS at the time, things would've been better.

My Computer received an upgrade of RAM-memory at some point in the early 2000's, and then when I was fortunate enough to be hooked up with a working copy of Windows XP, things started to look better again. Some newer games worked on the machine again, but naturally the shitty graphics card kept the level of gaming at bay. This sucked, but what could you do. My Computer also received another hard disk drive in 2004 or 2005, when I bought a used one from my friend. Oddly enough, the computer only recognised the drive as having a little over 10 G's of space in it ,when it was supposed to be about 30 G's. I could never figure out what was wrong, exactly, since my computer skills aren't of the best quality. Nevertheless, though, even 10 G's was enough for

When I moved out of Sipoo in 2006, I took this computer with me to my new apartment. You still couldn't play very many games, but most of the older classics still ran well along with such titles as Combat Mission, Operation Flashpoint, Grand Theft auto III, Hidden&Dangerous, the various Close Combat-titles, Fallout Tactics, Anachronox and Aliens vs Predator 2.

Then in the fall of 2007, this machine suffered a strange accident all of a sudden: the computer just broke down one day. I believe that the motherboard of the computer exploded, or something. This could've been caused by a number of things - but the main problem was after the accident, that I was left completely without a computer for several weeks, and back then I needed a computer for my studies-related projects as well. In the aftermath of the disaster, I was forced to buy a new computer with as cheap of a price tag on it as possible. I ended up with The Temporary Orange Box, but not before there was a short misadventure with the "D.O.A Machine".

As for what happened to "My Computer"? Well, I still have it, although I am considering on pulling out one of the hard drives and finally throwing away the rest. I also believe that we'll never know what happened to the computer exactly, since at the time when it broke down, I had very little means or skills on trying to find out what happened. I was also led to believe that repairing the computer would've cost alot, thus I decided not to do anything with it.