4 Computers in 4 Years

I have worked at ADP for just over 4 years and have been through a few computers. I’m sure it’s more frustrating to the IT guys than me, but it sure is inconvenient. The first computer I had was a Dell PC, it was awesome for a year and a half. Then, near the end of a very busy workday and in the heat of open enrollment, it crashed. The hard drive simply gave up. They gave me a new PC the next day and I goteverything back in order the way I liked it.
This new PC, also a Dell, worked flawlessly for one year at which point they decided to give me a laptop so I could work from home if necessary. I was so excited, but I was unknowingly getting the most horrible laptop ever made!
I got my Lenovo laptop a little over a month before I went on maternity leave. My return to work is when the real trouble began. The computer suddenly just stopped shutting down. On shutdown it ALWAYS restarted. I would have to hold the button down for a minute after the restart and it would finally really shutdown. Along with that my video card went out and there was an error with my hard drive, so they had to replace it. I was beginning to think it was me. I talked to IT about everything I do on my computer, but they assured me there is nothing I could do that was causing these problems.
IT hooked me up with a new hard drive and video card, but the shutdown continued to have problems. One not so lucky day I thought I had it shutdown and it apparently wasn’t. I put it in my back pack and headed home. I tried to start it up the next morning and it was dead, windows didn’t even start. Again, my trusty IT guy, who I know on a first name bases (Dan), did some examination and found that my computer got so hot it fried my motherboard. Back to IBM the computer went.
Two weeks later it came back with a new motherboard and it even shut down, I was so excited to have a fully functioning computer, but it didn’t last long. Two hours after getting my computer back I got an error message that it was overheating and it shut itself down. Don’t worry, this time it was just the fan. They fixed the fan and I got it back again. It was amazing and it was completely functional for about a week and half.
As I sat at my computer yesterday the whole thing suddenly went black. It had apparently decided to shutdown, so I gave it a rest and started it up again. I worked some more and there appeared to be no issues. I shut it down at the end of the day and it RESTARTED! I called up Dan this morning and he came to check it out. It’s been decided that my computer is a lost cause. Hallelujah! Today I got a new laptop!