Everything was going smoothly for a while. My girlfriend was able to edit two videos for my variety weekend, but a lot was going on in her life and I needed to cut some of my content from an emergency backlog recorded during a stream I had in December. I was finding a decent balance between work and releasing videos. Unfortunately that would not be the case for long.
Wednesday night, two weeks ago, I was working on a social media assignment to turn in when I suddenly heard a loud clunk come from inside of my computer. I saved my progress immediately and turned off my computer to inspect the problem. I had never anticipated this as an issue, but my motherboard had broken and my heatsink had fallen off of it. It is a good thing I turned my computer off quickly because that event could have fried my computer for good. I know someone who fixes computers and had previously worked on mine, so I texted him my issue hoping for a response.
Luckily, he was awake and offered to take a look at it if I was able to bring it to him. Considering I needed the files from my computer to turn in my assignments, I took him up on the offer. Once I was there, he concluded that my motherboard was broken and needed to be replaced and I brought up that I was looking to upgrade the motherboard and other components once my summer semester was over anyways. We talked about options and then I told him what upgrades I wanted, retrieved the files I needed to turn in my assignment before midnight, and left my computer with him to fix. The most unfortunate part of leaving my computer with him, besides having to miss over a week of video uploads, was being severely hindered in doing my school work and letting all of my groups for class projects down. Thankfully, they were all very understanding, but I hate to leave them with my responsibilities, even though this was out of my control.
I got my computer back after a week and had to reinstall all the programs that I frequently use. It is now a much more powerful machine and will make recording videos with higher quality and editing a much smoother process. Sadly, I lost a lot of files from my SSD card because the repair technician didn't back-up my drive to save the files before formatting it. He told me after that he always creates a back-up image and doesn't know why he didn't that time or even ask. It hurts, but what is done is done and we move forward. I will need to take another week off of releasing videos to make up for the lost time on my school assignments and get ready for the end of the semester that is looming ahead.
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