Today, my laptop has its own likes and dislikes. The cooler keeps spinning crazily, causing loud annoying noise when I use the laptop at my parent's house, and functions perfectly silent at my place. Careful inspection proved full working order. What's going on? FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I returned home to find out that my new and very expensive computer had overheated. I confronted my mom, and she told me that she had covered up the fan because she didn't like the noise. FML
Today, the speakers on my laptop weren't working. I worried I'd broken something, and started freaking out. I restarted my computer numerous times and played with the settings for an hour before calling my sister in to help. She looked at it for two seconds, then unplugged my headphones. FML
Today, my aged mother continued to complain about her computer issues to me. A relative, who is good at tech support, won't bother servicing her computer because whatever she does ends up bogging it down the next day, so I have to hear about it on the phone. FML
Today, I received my new laptop in the mail and put it on the kitchen counter, where my family charges all our electronics. My mom then decided to make soup and spilt chicken broth all over my new laptop before I even got the chance to turn it on. FML
Today, I found out my mother only uses two settings for volume on her laptop: maximum volume or completely quiet. She'll play it over whatever other people are doing, and then get mad when they tell her to turn it down. FML
Today, I got my laptop back after waiting weeks for it to be fixed. It turns out that they didn't fix it; they dusted it off, held it for a few days, and sent it back. FML
Today, I restarted my PC a few times because of a little clicking noise coming from the direction of the tower. No, my hard drive wasn't doing a death rattle, it was music coming from ear buds lying beside said tower on the desk. FML
Today, the family computer kept overheating. My four-year-old son thought the solution was to pour a nice, cold cup of water on it. FML
Today, I opened up my laptop to replace a faulty chip inside, which took me half an hour. When I closed it all up again, I saw the replacement part in its packaging on my desk. FML
Today, my washing machine, dryer, vacuum cleaner, and laptop all stopped working. FML
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D J's MOM 17
that's easy..... your parents house is haunted. lol
Hangryko 32
More humidity at your parents', maybe?
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Hangryko 32
More humidity at your parents', maybe?
D J's MOM 17
that's easy..... your parents house is haunted. lol
cpguru24 18
Fans spinning would indicate a rise in temperature. What are you setting it on your house vs parents? I did have one laptop that a lady brought it because it kept freezing. I ran stress tests hard drive tests mem tests to the 9th degree could not get it to lock up. I tried having the customer come back in and step me through the last thing she did when it froze last (She said it was random no specific process or app etc..) She walked in store and around the corner near her laptop and it froze! I had it for 2 weeks running constantly with zero issues!! Crazy! She left and I rebooted and the laptop went happily along. I think she replaced it. But I bet yours is an environmental issue.
Sdog 6
Yeah, likely the surface it’s on at your parents. Something like a carpet might not give it enough airflow.
IHaveThePower 18
Either you're setting it down on a cushioned\carpeted surface--in which case, stop that--or you need a priest.
FluffythePink 23
Computers are evil and out to get you.
notthatbad 1
I find that sometimes different types of devices on the network effect performance. when I have Linux only devices running on a network or Mac only network vs windows + Linux + Mac + android, the mixed network fans turn on more and things generally run poorly with devices on the mixed network. when Samba actually sees a windows device on the network it goes a little nuts, when there is nothing to talk to things run more smoothly, as an example