Oh my f*cking goodness. The technology bad-luck bug has struck again!!!
I'm in deep, deep shit; i just bought a new internal DVD-RW drive to replace the old one that wasn't working too well. When i plugged it in, the computer somehow couldn't detect BOTH my DVD drives.
Then, i thought that perhaps it was my IDE cable that was spoiled all along, not my DVD drive. And yeah, it certainly seemed like it, since my IDE cable had been folded to the point that certain parts of the BLACK cable had turned WHITE.
So i replaced the IDE cable with the one from my old computer (which was working fine).
And now, my newer computer can't be used at all.
Whoops. :|
The only thing i did wrong was that i had forgotten to turn off the main switch when i was changing the cable. My computer was still turned off though. But well...i'm afraid that i might have short-circuited something.
Put simply, my computer can be turned on, and everything in the computer is running - from the processor to the disk drives and graphic card. But my monitor repeatedly reports no signal. I did a bit of troubleshooting and went to change monitor and cable, to no avail. At first, i thought my graphic card had a problem and i went to check the connection and stuff.
But then i realised that my MOUSE was turned off. Or rather, it had not STARTED UP yet. So now...i think i might have short-circuited some parts of my freakin MOTHERBOARD.
Die die die. I don't have the time to do further testing and i don't have the money to just throw it away and buy new stuff or whatever. The worst thing is, even if i had the time to tear down my entire computer and send the motherboard for repair, i might not be able to use the warranty to get it done for free.
And that's because when i bought my computer, the shopkeeper had given me a more advanced motherboard model (probably by mistake...i only discovered it when i got home), but charged me for the price of the older and cheaper model and wrote that model on the receipt. Back then, i thought i had just escaped with a damn good deal. But now, i wonder if i'm going to suffer because the warranty might not be valid.
But i really do need my computer to be up and running! And so does my entire family...goodness gracious. I need help. For now though, i'm just going to sleep...hopefully, when i wake up tomorrow, the problem would have been miraculously solved on its own.
