I shut my computer down the other day and it decided it didn't want to a) turn back on in any sort of timely fashion or b) properly load Windows. Wonderful, yes? Also, it was for some reason reading an old, inactive copy of Windows on a partitioned secondary drive as the one it wanted to restore ( Read more... )

Everything is set up (except for games, but since I mostly switched over to console gaming there's not too much of that) and everything is back to normal in my study, here.

So I spent the afternoon watching The Two Towers, and the early evening working between two towers, with Steve, swapping hardware. (Secondary drive, NIC, video card to the new ( Read more... )

Me: Hey, you're running kinda slow. I'm going to reboot you. *does so and wanders off to watch the 1st half of the extended version of The Two Towers*
It: Yeah, you think so. *is rebooting*
Me: *goes back upstairs* Huh. I've been gone for a couple hours and you're still asking what version of Windows to use? O...K... *tries to get it to boot into ( Read more... )

Dear Microsoft,

Oh, no, I will NOT install IE8! I still remember the horror that was the initial release of IE7! I feel sorry for anyone who didn't read what they were installing and just clicked the appropriate buttons.

I'll stick with Firefox and Opera, thank you very much.

No love,

Seryan

It takes my monitor over an hour to warm up and the colors to stop looking weird. I think it may be coming up on time to replace it. :/ To be fair, it had a dead pixel when I bought it, what, three or four years ago? It was also the cheapest monitor I could get - my old one had, y'know, caught fire and had to be replaced ( Read more... )

The computer - and I realize I'm taking a risk here - has been working just fine since last week. I did not reinstall Windows. I did not replace the hard drive, though I did get a sexy new Maxtor external for backup. I did not swap in a new drive to test the motherboard by seeing if I could recreate the boot problems. I did nothing technical at all ( Read more... )

Well, the computer didn't crash the first time I turned it on today, it just froze at the Windows loading screen again, and had to be rebooted. HP's site suggests that perhaps things such as SD cards being left in can cause slow boot times (seriously, I assembled most of a model in the time it took me to notice it wasn't doing anything) and hey, ( Read more... )

Myself:Oh, look, a Windows update. Better install it and get it over with. *installs* Yes, yes, go ahead and restart. I have the electrician coming over soon anyway.
Computer: *restarts obediently*
Myself: Oh, good, it's restarted. *checks e-mail* *starts up Firefox*
Firefox: Want to restore your last session?
Myself: I can't remember what I was ( Read more... )

My copy of Microsoft Word has mysteriously decided to work again. Bizarrely, this is right after I mentioned, while near the computer, that I should probably uninstall it and reinstall it. It's very odd how threatening a computer will make it work sometimes.

No, Windows Update, I do not want to install and run IE7. Not only because I don't use IE for anything that Windows doesn't make me, but because I distrust it after it ate my friend's computer. Come back in a couple iterations ( Read more... )