Wednesday, March 19, 2014

One of the worst nights in case of my own computer repair

Hello Again, my followers and readers! I want to share the experience of my super hectic, one of the worst nights ever I spent yesterday. So why is that? What happened? Actually I will state my ambitions first then will explain the whole.

Ambition :-
I planned to Format my Primary Partition and replace my CPU Thermal Compound, which normally takes 2 hours maximum with other Software installations after format, which is 3 hours maximum. But all of this turned out to take 14 and a Half hours of hectic work. This was just due to bad luck.

Now I will start my story with a bit of theatricality and like the starting of the Legendary NFS Most Wanted 1.

Here it goes :-

30 days ago :- My OS Which was a pirated Windows 7 ultimate like every others around me, started to become unstable. It suddenly gave an "explorer has stopped working"

                                                 "Check an online solution for this program"
                                                                  "Restart the program"

And here my cursor froze every time. I tried everything of my knowledge without any sign of success.

And I should define my specs to go on. My PC specs are Gigabyte H61M - S2P Motherboard, 4*2 GB Starlite RAMs, Intel Pentium Dual Core 2.8 GHZ G2010, Local made Frontech 650 W SMPS, XFX ATI Raedon HD 6670 GDDR3 GPU, Local Foxin Cabinet, 2 Inhale fans of one 80 MM Inhale side, 120MM Inhale front, 2 Exhausts 80 MM. Back and side, And an Intel Stock cooler, which a 10 Rupees (0.16 USD) worth of Zinc thermal compound was applied. It is summer now, CPU heating at 40 Degree minimum, and when playing games, 55 - 60. So My good Friend gave me this Cooler master thermal compound of Rs 450 ( 7.35 USD) worth.

15 Hours ago :- Took the Windows 7 Disk, Restarted my computer, Inserted the disk, Entered into the disk, Selected Install Windows 7, Selected Advanced installation mode, The list of the drives came, And Here is the 1st problem begins. The Installer was saying - Windows cannot be installed in this drive because of MBR Partition table problem. I quit and deleted the C partition from Linux stored in another drive, and don't know why and how, The rest of the drives merged up into a whole 841 GB of un allocated disk space, which I had to create a new volume and format, and My super precious data, My Mom's data, my all software backups, Movies, videos, All gone in 1 minuite. I started to sweat instantly, I turned off my PC and went out for a break. Now in this break, I met my friend who gave me the Cooler Master thermal compound. Came home with it. Now


11 Hours ago :-
Unplugged all my Inputs, Took and placed my Cabinet on my bed, Opened the left cover up, and ((before saying after "and", Let me mention, In India here, we play Holi  on 16th. Holi is a colour festival where people throws flower made colours called "ABIR" and chemical colours all day long and have fun)). Some friends came up and threw me colours and I was on the Open cabinet then, I protected my PC as possible, and fell down by my back to prevent it. Though My whole mother board became red. I bathed my self and came back in the room again. My objective was to open the CPU Cooler, Unplug hook the CPU, Alcohol remove the thermal compound, re apply the compound and re hook and fix it again which normally takes 15 - 25 minuites maximum. Instead of that, I had to open every parts of the cabinet even the Front panel too, Remove every colour powders and strains, After that I had to remove every components of the motherboard except the Cooler and first cleaned with Paint brush and then blew air out of small pipes to remove the rest, After that when I opened the CPU cooler, I say the CPU was red too. This was a risky part. I had to thoroughly remove it, Then as usual removed the paste, re applied it and re assembled my PC. Which took like 4 hours. When I powered it on, It shut itself down with a sound from inside. I had to figure the problem out which took about half an hour. It was the Deepcool Inhale fan which was short circuiting.

6 Hours ago :-
After I fixed all my Hardware problems, I came back with the OS and Software problem part. Now Hands on my head. What to do? what to do? I was just looking on the 840+ GB of Un allocated space and mourned. I finally came up with an Idea, which was damn successful. I got all my partitions back as Intact it was except for the drive letters which I changed later, Formated my Primary partition, and did all the after format stuff, and now it is 5 AM in the morning. I am finally done working. I sat here at noon at 2:30 PM, break for 1 hour at the middle, then again left at 5 AM writing my whole worst experience in my blog. 
  
                   Now for the Geek part, How did I got all my partitions back, I will do a post later. 


THANK YOU

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