The Wingnuterer

I love/loved my ASUS-Tek EeePC 1000, it is was (nearly) indestructible.  It went to Mexico with me and returned several times, surviving airport security,… it went on many a dive boat in both fresh and salt water,… I lugged it all across Ontario,…  it went hundreds of kilometres with me on my bike,… it has been dropped,… it has even accidentally flown across the room.  The one thing thing that finally did it in was the May two-four weekend rain storm.  It got soaked while it was powered on in sleep mode, the battery in,…  This it could not take.

So I operated,…  The patient could not be revived,…

I extracted,…

These are the hard drives, the smaller of the two is a fast 8 Gig SSD (actually very slow compared to today’s SSDs), the other is a slower 32 Gig SSD.  These were the only two things I needed to work,… but it became obvious to me after several different Mini PCIe interface devices that the water that caused the motherboard of my EeePC to short out also killed my two SSDs.

Luckily, and not through any purposeful planning on my own, I had backups of my files else where.  It took a few weeks to piece it altogether again.  Accounting files, most of my music (lost some), The Wingnuterer files and all my software installs (a considerable amount of financial investment there).

Anyways, I have since replaced my ASUS-Tek EeePC 1000 with a ASUS-Tek EeePC 1015PN (with tint control).  The new EeePC isn’t as robust as the old, it has a mechanical HD, but I will replace that shortly,… until then,… and forever after,… backups!!!

2 Responses to “It’s Dead Jim!!! Or how my EeePC 1000 died”