I had one of the biggest scares of my college career this morning. I opened up my laptop and the screen was white. No blinking, just white. I didn’t really think anything of it since it happens everyday or so. But when I closed it and opened it back up again, it was still white.
I closed it again and decided to give it a little while and see if it would fix itself. So I studied and then tried again an hour later. Still nothing. It was still white. I started to freak out a bit since I have two papers on it that are due this week and next week. I hadn’t backed them up on my flash drive either.
Since I know it’s just the screen, I had to find a monitor to hook it up to so I could get my papers onto my flash drive. I went to the library and their monitors wouldn’t hook up to my laptop. I think it’s because they’re LCD screens or something. Then I tried hooking it up to my friend’s laptop, but I didn’t have the right cord.
Then by some stroke of luck the screen went back to normal. That was the longest it had ever been white. I have definitely realized how much I rely on my laptop. I backed up my papers and now I’m backing them up as I write them. I just need my laptop to work for two more weeks. Then I can get it fixed.
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I have over 100GBs of just music on mine, let alone movies & TV shows, plus 5000+ photos and numerous documents. I have three external hard drives, plus a server because I’m so paranoid that something like that will happen to me.
Thanks for reminding me…I need to buy an external hard drive to back up all of my stuff to.
Hope your laptop won’t blank out on you again!