Your computer will die in 5 minutes...

[SkyeNeko]

sigh and find an outlet, then rage because it takes more than 5 minutes to find an outlet in my house. then plug it in and have my computer ask if i would like to restore my session.

if its dying like never turning on again?

sigh and battle my bro/mom to death for the use of one of the other computers.

 

[Paksenarrion]

Transfer all of my lesson plans to an external drive, of course. And then get a new laptop.

 

[tkioz]

I fire off an email to the store I got it from, I only brought it 2 months ago and for the price I paid for it, I expected better.

Note, I use to work in the industry, and could have built my own machine for a little cheaper, however I decided that I'd rather pay $200 to get someone else to deal with it, and ordered a custom machine for a store I use to deal with, works wonderfully and I didn't have any stuffing around, just plug in and go.

 

[Naheal]

Try my best to make the thing spontaneously combust.

 

[WaffleCopters]

Delete the software. its probably a virus.

 

[Laurie Barnes]

Reformat immediately. Killing the virus and all my info simultaneously, HALO STYLE!

 

[Shadowtek]

PRINT EVERYTHING (then pray i have enough ink)

 

[infinity_turtles]

Taunt my computer. This is what you get for crashing so fucking often you son of a *****! (My videocard has been failing for the last four months and I'm finally getting a new one tommorow)

 

[snakeakaossi]

If I knew my computer would die within five minutes I'd leave it to die, get some spare parts from the attic, start wondering why the hell it's taking so long, enjoy the explosion and replace the dead parts with the spare ones.

I'm not that scared my computer will die on me, I've got enough spare parts for 3 more

 

[Risingblade]

Be happy I have a warranty on this and get a new one~

 

[Charli]

Try and fix the problem I guess...

 

[Danish rage]

Hmmm. First. Blank stare. Second. Remembering everything is backed up. Third. Looking forward to vacation until the new computer arrives in a weeks money.

 

[Auxiliary]

Unzip.

 

[Cowabungaa]

At first I'd curse and be very annoyed that I haven't backed up my latest, erm, additions to my collection yet; the entire series of Monster, Ghost in the Shell CAC and the discographies of Iron Maiden and Judast Priest. Luckily most of it is, but I'd have to 'attain' those again. And patch my outdated WoW client I've got backed up, which is a *****.

Then I'd curse some more because this thing is only a couple months old, get on my laptop and order a new one (with a few changes) because I've got plenty of money anyway.

I fire off an email to the store I got it from, I only brought it 2 months ago and for the price I paid for it, I expected better.

Note, I use to work in the industry, and could have built my own machine for a little cheaper, however I decided that I'd rather pay $200 to get someone else to deal with it, and ordered a custom machine for a store I use to deal with, works wonderfully and I didn't have any stuffing around, just plug in and go.

Woah, 200 pounds?! I pretty much did the same with an online store and it only costed me 40 pounds to get it assembled and all that.

 

[Pistachio101]

Probably spend 4 1/2 minutes trying to come up with something funny to say about it on facebook and then questioning myself if its really worth posting it at which point the computer explodes.

 

[tkioz]

At first I'd curse and be very annoyed that I haven't backed up my latest, erm, additions to my collection yet; the entire series of Monster, Ghost in the Shell CAC and the discographies of Iron Maiden and Judast Priest. Luckily most of it is, but I'd have to 'attain' those again. And patch my outdated WoW client I've got backed up, which is a *****.

Then I'd curse some more because this thing is only a couple months old, get on my laptop and order a new one (with a few changes) because I've got plenty of money anyway.

I fire off an email to the store I got it from, I only brought it 2 months ago and for the price I paid for it, I expected better.

Note, I use to work in the industry, and could have built my own machine for a little cheaper, however I decided that I'd rather pay $200 to get someone else to deal with it, and ordered a custom machine for a store I use to deal with, works wonderfully and I didn't have any stuffing around, just plug in and go.

Woah, 200 pounds?! I pretty much did the same with an online store and it only costed me 40 pounds to get it assembled and all that.

mmm at current exchange rates it's about $90 pounds, and the pound has better buying power, when you look at basic staples of life (milk, bread, etc) the cost of GBP and AUD isn't the same as the exchange rate.

$200 is a little over market rate, but I chose to have a 72 hour test (standard is 24), because if I was building it myself I'd of ran a 72 hour stress test, I also chose software installation and update (I'm incredibly lazy), along with a proviso that no beggerware was to be installed (i.e music players and shit), which also drove up the cost. Total service cost was a little under $200, $192 or something, which was about double what a normal build costs, but IMO well worth it because I got it exactly the way I wanted it, just as if I had built it myself, without the hassle of actually building it.

 

[Thimblefoot]

Remove the hard drive, then throw the (I assume to be) exploding computer out of the window just before the 5 minute mark.

 

[SpAc3man]

I am so awesome I could prevent it.

I will run my heavy duty malware scanner and fuck the shit out of whatever is messing with my pride and joy. I would then have to do a system restore cos my hardcore malware scanner likes to fuck up the desktop gadgets for some reason. Reinstalling them doesn't work, running a registry clean after uninstalling the whole sidebar and then reinstalling it doesn't work. It gets completely screwed. If all of this doesn't work I would pull out my second 1TB drive to save all the movies, tv shows, music and steam backups from destruction. Once the carnage is over I will run the saved HDD through a VM to make sure it wasn't carrying the cause of the Bad Thing.