The Ghost In My Computer
Yesterday my computer had gone totally weird. May be it was protesting for a weekend leave as I have been overusing it for quite sometime now. I have no idea what made it deport in such unearthly manner but it was a real terrifying experience. Well, a lot of people with eccentric tech know how must be visiting my blog and may be they’ll be able to explicate the matter.
It must be some 9:00 a.m. in the morning that I logged into Yahoo Messenger and started a conference as usual. It was after sometime that I found out a lot of buttons in my keyboard weren’t working. I had a bad time in the conference and I almost considered buying a new keyboard. Now again there were uncanny combination of keys that weren’t working i.e. keys on the extreme left and on the extreme light 
. I was like really fuddled with it and left my computer for some 3-4 hours. It was when I sat on the comp with almost no hope I found out that all the keys were working perfectly. Eldritch, ain’t it ?
I hadnt gotten over this experience that my Samsung Optical Mouse started givin me shocks 
. I had been chatting on the net for the whole day and suddenly out of nowhere this mouse gives me shocks. This was when I thought am I inebriated?
The only possible logic that I could concoct from the two situations was that possibly my peripherals were in the vicinity of water. It could be only water which could make the keyboard stop working and when it dried the key board must have come to life. Also, the water must have conducted current from the internals of mouse . But I can ascertain you that I don’t let water or any other liquid reach near my computer table. Nor am I careless enough to operate the mouse with wet hands. Dude, I smell rats 
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Wait, this wasn’t all I had to take. It was at around 11:00 p.m. when my monitor started to go shades of green. No, it wasn’t that greenish effects made by speakers or any magnetic field near the monitor. The whole monitor displaying area went uniformly greena and the screen was flickering a bit.
This green monitor syndrome is till stuck with my computer while my mouse and keyboard are working just fine. Now, I was just wondering if any levelheaded and well-informed person can explain me the possible scientific or acceptable reasoning regarding this. My computer is dearest to me and I literally go nostalgic when I have to stay away from it for a long time 
. I just hope there isn’t mephistophelean soul trying to overpower me by exploiting my weakness for my ‘compy’
November 21st, 2005 at 9:06 am
I told ya… it’s the GX effect!
November 21st, 2005 at 2:24 pm
If monitor goes green try turning it offf and then on, worx for me wen it starts to lose colors after using it for long hrs.
My compy is very dear to me too… i have even named it Abhigyan
November 21st, 2005 at 6:18 pm
Monitor turning green… check for monitor cable. It happens when one of ur monitor interface wire is loose. Try to tighten it at both ends.
November 21st, 2005 at 7:37 pm
as the old man said, “no use trying anything, simply take the patient to the nearest tantrik baba and get all the evil-shadows affecting your compy removed”.
what say?
November 28th, 2005 at 4:10 pm
lol
December 5th, 2005 at 7:35 pm
to aadi
i guess this is not your real name just like itsme but i’m sorry if it is. you are a legend!!!!!!!!
my computer turned green and yeh it was the cably thing. i love you (platonically!!!!)
thank you dearly xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
December 7th, 2005 at 2:55 am
lolz
take it sree he is the biggest tantrik world has ever known
..:: peace ::..
Jeba
December 8th, 2005 at 2:51 pm
December 15th, 2005 at 9:21 pm
I dunno how it happens but once my friend banged his keyboard cos he lost while playing a game. Many of his keys stopped working. But after a few ‘months’ they were working again.
You checked for water. But, how about magnetic ojects. The greenish color of screen seems more like a effect of a nearby magnetic feild. If your computer is near a wall there could be a possibility of a magnet behind a wall. I had experienced it with my TV when my neighbours room was being repaired.
December 17th, 2005 at 9:25 am
Abbey, problem khatam hua kya ? Update kar na
December 20th, 2005 at 4:37 am
Itna sannata kyon hai bhia??
December 28th, 2005 at 1:35 am
Hmm… seems more like a magnet or cellphone…
When I say cellphone, i mean a very old model… the ones that weighed more than say 200gms… Coz they had such a problem..
Best is check ur PC for a mouse (a live one…)
Prav.
July 28th, 2008 at 5:30 am
I’ve had key problems with water spilled before- you can try a solution of 1/3 water and 2/3’s isopropyl Alchohol ..put it in the sink and use a spray bottle- making sure to tap EVERY button during the process – let dry…repeat if necessasry – (i’m a chain smoker and I’m amazed at how much GUNK comes out) otherwise don’t waste time and buy a new keyboard – they make them dishwasher safe now! you’ve just got to spend a little extra. As for the monitors – the same solution is great to clean ANY monitor incuding a laptop.
As for the GREEN in the uppder left hand corner -we just had lightning hit very near or on my house – no rain predicted…thunderstorm just HAPPENED…and I was shutting down systems as qukcly as possible. i’ve got 3 monitors and two of them lost color in upper left hand – whomever posted about turning them off – THANKS! It got NOTICEABLY better. I was sure they got a charge – and were toast (could have been static build up) so I used my static pad (or you can touch ANY ground to your monitor cable) and on second restart ALL is well.