Thursday, December 31, 2009

Oh, my laptop is broken!!

First of All, Alhamdulillah because i just finished my spanish test today and I think it was quite easy for me. However, this does not mean that I will get 100 points for the test. I hope that my mark would be more than 91 points in order to obtain an A for spanish course. Actually, I am having a problem that perhaps other people would think that it is a trivia. My laptop, acer, is broken and I just found out about this last two days when suddenly I could not turn on my laptop. Once I pressed the 'on' button, the computer immediately turned off itself.

Oh, What a weird thing!! Then, the next day, I tried to switch it on again. This time, I managed to have it turned on. The laptop could run as normal as it did before. Nonetheless, as I feared that it would turn off without giving any warning, so I decided to have it switched off, hoping that my laptop would be alright. It is like I was giving some time to my laptop to get a rest...huhuhu... So, I borrowed my friend's netbook (wani) to get my spanish homework done.

Unfortunately, it turned out that my laptop could not be turned on though I had pressed the 'on' button hardly.. and I did this many times. Moon, one of my chinese friends, told me the place at school that I should to get help for fixing my computer. I didn't know that MLK building exists at University of Arizona before. What a shame! Alhamdulillah, at least I already know about it right now. So, after I finished my spanish class, I went back to Sahara to take my laptop and bring it to MLk Building.

There, there was a man who checked my laptop. He said that there were two possibilities: First, my computer had a problem with the ram and the second its motherboard is damaged. At the moment, I was praying that everything would be Ok so that I could just get back home and use my computer as usual. As I already expected, its motherboard was damaged. The man, who wore an earring on his left ear, advised me to go to Acer center or factory or whatever related to Acer to get a replacement for the motherboard. I was like.. huh?? Where can I find the factory?? Do I still have the warranty?? The International warranty??!!! ..Oh, just forget it.. It seems that I have to get a new laptop right now.

The problem is that I don't have enough money to buy a new one. Tomorrow, which is friday, we (my friends and I) are going to Grand Canyon for a three-day trip. This means that I will be using money that probably costs about 200 dollars!!! I just did a survey with Arif's help. He gave me a link , tigerdirect.com, where cheap prices are offered for electronic stuff. Maybe for this time, I can only afford to buy a netbook and not a laptop (due to budget restriction). Let me see first, anyway. See how much money left in my account after coming back from the trip. Ya Allah, please help me to find a wise solution. Amin.