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12-April-2015
My old desktop PC
died, officially. It was originally installed with
Windows XP, but I
tried to run in in
Vista when the OS was released, then finally to
Windows 7. Well, they all run okay, but to say the least, it was
slow. And why not? It was an old
PC that can only accommodate a
maximum of 2GB
RAM. 2 slots, that's all.
The longest time
possible it was running Windows 7 OS, but when 14.04 Ubuntu was
released, I thought, “Why not try and see if
Ubuntu Linux will be
better?”
I did just that. And
it was on
dual-boot mode. Windows 7 alongside Ubuntu Linux 14.04.
For some time, I run
it that way, and one very stark difference is the speed. Windows 7
was slow, Ubuntu Linux was speedier. And they use the same hardware
and all.
About 2 months back,
I decided, I am not doing anything in Windows 7, or to say it more
specifically, I cannot do anything in Windows 7 because I am simply
waiting for a button click to get through, or complete.
Came the decision:
Wipe out drive C:, and install Ubuntu Linux – only!
I did just that, and
Ubuntu Linux installation started nicely. That was just about the
time we were going to have dinner, so I left the old desktop PC alone
while the installation was going on.
Afterwards, when I
checked on the installation progress, I noticed that the lights on
the PC were off. The
power switch was still turned on, so I was
wondering how it was turned off. I tried to press the power button,
but no response. I had to open up the casing to check on what the
problem could be.
No power. I did the
standard troubleshooting steps, but there isn't anymore a response,
like simply leaving the PC unpluged for a while and letting the
stored charge be discharged, and upon plugging back in and turning
the switch on would immediately turn the blower fan momentarily on,
then off – well, none – nada!
A few more rounds of
doing this, and with the night getting late, I had to retire, and to
'officially' retire the old desktop PC as well.
Good thing was that
the secondary hard disk is still intact, and it is still in the PC
today, but before the supposedly installation of Ubuntu Linux, I made
it sure that all data was moved out of the primary disk, and all
stored in the slave disk.
It has served me a
long time, and it had its time. Computers don't live forever. And it
picked a fine time to die, just when I thought of giving it a 'new
life' with Ubuntu Linux...
Till then!
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