Actually, my old computer didn’t die, but its replacement did.
That was a year ago. I needed to upgrade my old faithful PC, as it was beginning to struggle with a lack of memory. I suppose that comes to us all eventually. For several years it had done a good job, but time had arrived to upgrade to something that didn’t take thirty seconds to start a YouTube video.
Enter a new Dell, Windows 10 PC. Well, a new(ish) refurbished Windows 10 PC. All was well until it wasn’t. After three months it developed a clunking sound at start-up, only running silent after a restart. It sounded like something was going to fail, so I took it back to the shop.
“It’s a noise from the fan.” Said the shop assistant.
“No, it isn’t,” I replied. “I took the side off, and the noise is near the start button. A component part is going to fail.”
“I’m afraid you will have to bring it back when it fails, as the PC runs perfectly on a reboot.”
Customer service.
I took it home, but one day three months later it made a clunking sound for the final time. I looked at the monitor, and it was like a scene from The Matrix. The picture was breaking up, Matrix-style, numbers falling down the screen. Except this was the PC wallpaper image making a pretty pattern of broken pixels.
