Having resuscitated my blog from a mistake I made two weeks ago kept me going with my renewed effort to venture into the Internet Marketing world. All seems to be in good order until another mishap come up last week end. Murphy law said that if something failed it will fail without you knowing it.

Last Friday night my PC died on me!

The signs were there all along that the PC will be shutting down on me but I just didn’t know it is so abrupt.

First the operating system is slowly grinding to a halt. There are so much disk activities on my Vista operating system that it is spinning the “donut” most of the time. This is the sign that the operating system partition is extremely fragmented and the Master File Table (MFT) is reaching it capacities. This is known problem since Vista was in beta stage but now it is hitting my PC now.

I launched Disk Keeper Pro and it recommended me to do a boot-time defragmentation on the operating system partition. So I did and it went through the defragmentation of the operating system partition after a reboot. All seems to be fine and the MFT was being rebuilt into consecutive spaces and then the defragmentation complete. The system now rebooted another time and low and behold, the windows loader was missing! Without the loader the Vista partition cannot be booted up again so that Disk Keeper Pro can continue with it process.

It just so happen that I loan my Vista DVD to my niece for her to fix her PC on another problem so I could not do a startup repair immediately. Thinking that I will do it later and since I needed to read some Internet mail, I boot up my Windows 7 partition. That’s when the problem start since the Disk Keeper boot-time defragmentation process is not fully completed, Windows 7 operating system thinks that the Vista partition is corrupted and tried to recover that partition. Well since it started the recovery I can’t do much so I let it continue it run.

However half way through the recovery suddenly the PC just shut down. There is nothing in the monitor. Hitting the power button also doesn’t power on the PC. There is a slight burning smell coming from the power supply unit. Thinking this could be due to a blown power supply unit I took it out and went to the computer store to get a replacement. After fitting the new power supply unit it still doesn’t power on the PC. It looks like there is something else that is broken.

After some research from the Internet on similar cases, the recommendation is to remove each of the components from the PC and try to isolate the faulty component. After several attempt I found that after I removed the graphic card (a Gigabyte 9800 GT) the system is able to power on. Well look like it is either a “fried” PCIe slot on the motherboard or the graphic card is faulty.

This morning I took both the items to the computer store where I bought it from and now they are investigating which is the faulty part. I am writing this post using my wife’s notebook.

I am eagerly waiting for the computer store to call me to tell me the result. Without the PC as a proper tool, it would be just so difficult to continue to make a present on the Internet. Also most of tools I use are on the PC hard disk so it is essential that I get the PC back alive so that I can continue to monitor my blog. Also I will have a hard time trying to remember the userid and password to all the sites that I have joined which means I will have to take a lot of time going through my mails to find them.

I am hoping that everything will be resolved by tonight. I’ll keep you posted.