音時雨 ～Regentropfen～

Even though I was sort of comprised last time, I have never been happy with a laptop that can't play music while being fine otherwise. So I eventually re-installed the whole OS again on last Saturday.
It was a mystery that how previously it failed only at audio formats -- literally any format, flac, wav, mp3 and ogg -- regardless what player being used. But apparently reinstallation got it fixed.
Also I didn't lose anything as I'm good at keeping my files safe so this is funny but not typical (Just scribed for 1TB OneDrive in March).
Plus I even got rid of some extra programs/etc. completely. Happy end. (*´∀｀)

Not sure if mentioned last time. Considering the battery is only valid for 3 seconds, I've removed it from the machine. While it does take a while to boot up, I brought hibernation back so I can pull out the power cord without worries.

Along with the regain of audio-playing ability, I was excited to have another "hearing test", and the topic this time was the phantom butterfly's BGM, which I fell in love at the very moment.
Honestly, I'm so glad to know it only has 3 sharps, as initially I thought there might be 5+ sharps/flats.. xD;;
The outcome. I personally do think is not bad, though I wish I could dig further it's like impossible.
If From ever releases the score, I'll buy.

Earlier than the reinstallation, I finished the 9k puzzle after buying it in January 2017.

9k = 1.93 x 1.39 cm
Now I glued it as 12 pieces, will find a chance in the future to figure out about a frame.. (´・ω・｀;)
Conclusion, it's fun. If I had the space, I'll definitely do a 18k one someday.

After the reinstallation, I tried to use fabric paint -- I'm not planning to do any sewing recently -- on the back of my phone, as I'm tired of looking at the all-black body, or mask tape that kept peeling off.

Done by using a paper stencil, still the surface is way too smooth and hard to work with, especially that I don't have a brush.
And I don't know why I chose golden, probably simply because this colour won't be used on fabric more often than others.
Now the next thing is to see how long it starts getting worn off. (・_・)
-- If it really gets worn off before the phone's end of life of, I'll paint claw mark (the one I mostly use) or blood rapture (looks better)!

Coming plans: stretch my fingers and start clip studio paint (finally).

The fan arrived much faster than I expected, and I performed the fan transplant 10 days ago. As the second time, it all went well. I could tell that I relied much less on photos of where each part originally locates, also I did find the (possible) location for one of the extra screws I left over last time.
But it meanwhile went more brutally -- I know I become less careful after knowing how things are arranged -- that the biggest accident was dropping the hard-drive onto the floor, from a between-table-top-and-chair height. It was dropped along with the metal rack for holding it to the machine, so hopefully it's not physically damaged due to the shock.
Though to replace the new fan was a bit hard because the working area for inserting the cables back was rather small, otherwise the overall time was obviously reduced when I put the shell back -- and then I noticed there's a loose cable sticking out of the machine so I had to open all screws again to figure it out. At least the loosen cable was not at an inner part so just opening the shell was enough.

Next, turning on the machine to have a test. (At the very first time of disassembly I was even worrying if it would explode due to miss/incorrectly connected cables.) But seemed it didn't read the hard-drive, which was soon found to be that I didn't properly connect the HD at all (only 2 screws to reach the HD, easy check).
While another problem was the keyboard turned to not work at all (not so important as a small portion of the keyboard had been already died for quite a while and my USB-keyboard works fine), a week later I opened it again and found it was me who failed to firmly insert the cable to the slot.
Once the HD connection was confirmed, there was no more issues to boot to the OS, although it turned a little slow -- could be due to the potential HD damage. As the disk usage before the old fan died was always high, it didn't catch more attention until I found it plays audio files with a lag almost every a few seconds, plus the system keeps saying I need to reboot for a disk check, but no actions seemed to be actually done after multiple reboots.

More strangely, it's drive D instead of C being the problematic one.
Yesterday I tried two chkdsk commands, one was in the morning and I left it running but saw it got stuck at ~6% 8 hours later. Another in the evening I retried and noticed it was repairing same files as I saw in the morning run, and quickly got stuck at the same progress, 6%. (Both run I typed chkdsk d: /r hoping it can do the repair. Didn't really know every option, simply saw using "/r" on a webpage's example.)
Then This morning I eventually grabbed the repair disk and chkdsk-ed from its advanced repair command window, without "/r" followed by "/scan" as suggested by the system.

Even it looks solved, the audio-playing problem remains. (Tried three players, all the same. While it plays 1080p video smoothly.)
Fine, I do have my old phone as a backup music player. ~_~

When my 9-year-old VAIO's fan begin to spin like mad, I got a hunch that it's getting over -- while my hunch immediately became true as the fan soon sounded like a mini-chainsaw.
With several testings in following days, it takes over 10 minutes to start up, slow response to every command, the disk usage is always 100%, plus that when the fan enters chainsaw mode, everything except the mouse cursor freezes.
So it was safe to conclude the fan was undone.

I'm not surprised, nor in a panic -- most files on that machine are also on the cloud. Actual loss I can recall would only include the DMC5 OST that I downloaded but haven't unzipped yet, and a few anime episodes (that I nearly dropped), as well as some RSS feeds (should have it exported long time ago).

However, it's also not what I expected.

-- There's no Surface book 3 yet! (ﾟдﾟ)！
Which means I need to accept using my current Surface 3 (works well but 4 GB RAM is apparently not enough for my daily abuse), or try to fix/replace the near-death fan.

On Sunday, I thus experienced my first time laptop dissection.
Of course before that I had no real experience in dealing with computer hardware.

Though it was fun (glad I do have screwdrivers in different sizes) and I made to an okay end.

No wonder (literally) everything needs a clean-up, that I almost dump the entire fan plus the whole motherboard into ethanol (what I actually ended up with was consuming half bottle of compressed air).

The fan indeed had physical problem more than a clean-up. Even by spining it by hand it was clear something was wrong around the axle.
Knowing it's better to have it replaced, I wanted to see what would happen with the deep-clean -- result was as expected, that nothing seemed to change.

Good enough that Amazon does have fans that are likely to be the same (or fairly close). Once it arrives it would answer whether I can keep abusing this VAIO or downgrade it to another external hard drive.

(While one thing I don't understand is why I had 3 extra screws left after I reassembled it...)

↓ My current setup. Never thought you can arrange two displays vertically. _(:3」∠)_

↓ Earlier recent things: replacements of my torn-off messenger bag.


why ideology? watch this..
Fabric dyeing and paintings are also fun! |ω・｀)