Irritating unknown-reasons syndrome

My laptop is down with the "Irritating unknown-reasons syndrome". I started encountering some of its symptoms a couple of weeks ago. However the first signs were noticed about a month ago, where it kept giving me a message prior to even booting/starting up.. something along the lines of "Dude your hard drive is facing imminent failure so if you've got anything to back up now would be the right time", bear in mind that started happening out of the blue. I hadn't installed any new softwares or hardwares, nor had I dropped it a couple of times (something I felt like doing). So it beats me why I kept getting that message everytime I start up my laptop. Don't you just hate it when modern technology or machinery gives you attitude?

That was almost immediately followed by some weird erratical behaviour after each log in. Then just a couple of days before my finals I had trouble switching it on, I couldn't even get as far as the windows log in screen. I kept trying to access windows in several other ways until it (the laptop) thought it was about time it gave in. I didn't want to be put in that same situation again, especially that I had my finals in a couple of days so I decided to keep the sucker running until after my finals. Thats exactly what it did... it was left on continuously for a week or so. I started feeling sorry for both the laptop and myself. The laptop had enough, and I suppose my eletricity bill had enough too.

I intended on taking it to the hospital (agent or main dealer), and I made it to one of their wards (showrooms) just in the nick of time on a Friday. Little did I know that they had whole wards (showrooms) for each of their ranges of products. The one I paid a visit to was their photocopiers showroom. The notebook showroom I should've gone to was nowhere near it, and my next chance of taking it would be in another two days. So all in all I guess I'll be left without my laptop for about a week or so. Damn it! I should've known something like this would've happened... call it karma?


Basically I don't know when's the next time I'll see my beloved laptop rid of this syndrome. I hope it gets well soon. Until then I won't be posting.. as often. I'll try to every couple of days though.