September 28, 2006

My dvd drive died last night. That was LOADS of fun, let me tell you!

I was right in the middle of using it when it seemed to have gotten stuck in it's process. After that it just didn't want to read any sort of dvd media no matter what it was. If it was a dvd, it didn't even recongize there was a disc in there. Now, if you placed a cd disc in, it worked fine. This pissed me off and after reading about this sort of problem online, I was majorly pissed off. Apparently this is a common problem for multi-function drives. If you're lucky only one part of the drive will become unusable and the other will continue to work...which is what happened to me.

Having to go out and spend money on a new drive wasn't something I was planning on doing. Oh well. So I bought one, installed it and so far so good. I sometimes think my computer hates me, so it's just a matter of time before something else happens. Oh and I managed to cut my finger somewhere along the installation process. My finger looks like that damn neosporin commercial with a nice red diagonal slash on it. Lovely.