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I never felt like our computer ran optimally. We bought it in August of 2004, and, well, I'm of the opinion that if the system starts crashing without explanation during the first 6 months to 1 year, it is not a solid system. But barring the occasional fist-thumping, it served our needs, so we couldn't exchange it or anything.
Yesterday, we ripped God Ween Satan onto it. Crash. Reboot. Blue unmountable boot volume screen.
Called up Dell technical support, they ran us through a drive diagnostic, and the hard drive had failed.
WTF kind of hard drive only lasts just over a year? A spiteful, warantee-hating, Ween-conspiring one, that's what.
Irkage.
So I've been keeping this other drive around, dated 2001 I believe, and we did the switch, setting it up as master and leaving the other one as slave. Yes, we know how to set the pins. And no, it isn't booting. The drive diagnostic shows it's there, but we're getting a blue boot error now.
So I have given up.
And I'm trying really hard not to hold Mr. Hemlock personally responsible for this.
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On a totally unrelated note, I keep forgetting to write that the hospital lit the first menorah candle on Monday of last week. By evening, they'd realized their mistake. Still, come on, people! What a way to alienate the majority of your funding source!
Also, the Christmas Tree standing next to the menorah is huge and gaudy. And it appears that someone got pathologically carried away with the lights, as maybe 10 strands are wrapped over and over around the base of the tree, making it look like its pants fell down to its ankles.
Yesterday, we ripped God Ween Satan onto it. Crash. Reboot. Blue unmountable boot volume screen.
Called up Dell technical support, they ran us through a drive diagnostic, and the hard drive had failed.
WTF kind of hard drive only lasts just over a year? A spiteful, warantee-hating, Ween-conspiring one, that's what.
Irkage.
So I've been keeping this other drive around, dated 2001 I believe, and we did the switch, setting it up as master and leaving the other one as slave. Yes, we know how to set the pins. And no, it isn't booting. The drive diagnostic shows it's there, but we're getting a blue boot error now.
So I have given up.
And I'm trying really hard not to hold Mr. Hemlock personally responsible for this.
*
On a totally unrelated note, I keep forgetting to write that the hospital lit the first menorah candle on Monday of last week. By evening, they'd realized their mistake. Still, come on, people! What a way to alienate the majority of your funding source!
Also, the Christmas Tree standing next to the menorah is huge and gaudy. And it appears that someone got pathologically carried away with the lights, as maybe 10 strands are wrapped over and over around the base of the tree, making it look like its pants fell down to its ankles.