Billy Young's Blog - Posts Tagged "lightning"

I’ve had a week of computer woes. It began on Sunday, there was a lightning storm which it a house over the back door from me. It also hit a car across the road scorching its paint work. Anyways my computer was on at the time, silly me. Luckily it was a corrupted file but since then my system has been very sluggish. I know what’s causing it, only thing is I have to reformat by drive to sort it. This is something I don’t want to do though I might be forced. At the time though I was in a right panic because there is always something we know we should have backed up. And it is always then that these things happen. Worst thing was I was thinking about that a couple of days before. I should get some imaging software really for that would be the easy way to keep myself from the painful way of dragging everything to another drive before formatting and reinstalling Windows XP. I would have done that if I had been a good boy. Instead I was forced to just install over the old copy which is what is causing the slow down. At least I was luckier than the folks that’s house was hit. There was a huge hole left in the chimney with a wide crack running down under the roof. The families had to be re-housed because of the structural damage. I was just glad to hear no-one was hurt. The car is still running though it will cost to get it re-sprayed, glad I don’t have to worry about that bill.

There was a lightning storm as I left work today. The sky just opened up and the roads were awash to the point it looked like we were driving in a river. Of course my worry was for my computer after the last time though I shouldn’t have as Magz was at home. The storm though continued for over an hour which I think is the longest I’ve ever seen it last. Usually it’s all over in less than half an hour.
Well tomorrow is the big day to wipe my drive to reinstall Windows. Hopefully that will then let my system get back to the way it was before. It would be good to get back to a stable, running system. Rather than the graphical glitches, sudden slowdowns and system freezes that I have suffer of late. I’ve even experienced these on start-up, which would suggest something isn’t right. As I have said in the past I don’t think it is hardware but rather problems caused by the way I fixed my problem the last time there was a lightning strike over the back door. Well I’ll find out if I’m right or if there is something worse that needs tracking down on the hardware side. That could be expensive and would probably be cheaper just going for a complete rebuild. Unfortunately it isn’t something that I could afford at the moment as the money I have saved so far has Christmas written on it.
Yes I’m already thinking of that time. Magz has wanted a PS3 for sometime so I’m getting her one. Mind not to tell her though. Anyway because of that I’ll not have the money to put to the computer for a bit. I’m hoping that the over time I did to day will give me some extra cash towards it. Of course I will have to get her something else as she’ll be playing the console as soon as I get it. Well how else would we know it was working, hehehe.