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Originally posted by robustpuppy
I am glad to see that the website I posted did not seem to cause massive board-wide technical meltdowns. It was the last thing I did before my HP laptop shut down and refused to start up again. Because I had no backup internet access, I was unable to warn y'all yesterday.
As for the laptop, it tries to start windows but repeatedly fails. There appears to be some blue screen from hell that is intended to tell me that my computer is terminal, but it flashes off so quickly I can't figure out what it says. I may have to call one of those computer geeks who is always leaving messages on my home machine despite my being on every do-not call list, including those of vendors with whom I have done business in the past. This would require me to lift two boycotts: the one on businesses that leave automated messages on home answering machines, and the one on establishing any relationship, whether business or personal, with anyone who drives a PT Cruiser.
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Um, let me know if you fix this, because this happened to me over a week ago (on a Dell). I have not yet worked myself up to calling the endless-hold people, though having neither TV nor internet access at home will push me to it soon. Luckily I was out of town earlier this week. I watched like 4 episodes of X Files in a row. It was not a good cure for insomnia.
I need to learn how to manage short trips to the east coast better. I feel like shit after them -- kills at least a day.
ETA, because I did not STP, I have not tried sticking the windows system disk thingies in the CD thingy to start it, but I pondered it. I too can't even get to the point where I would safe-start it anymore -- most recently, all it does if I press the power button is make the power and the hard drive lights go on (steady), blink the caps lock light 10 times, and then all goes dark. It really seems like it's trying to tell me something with that caps lock light, but I don't speak its language.
EATA, if the computer really is fried, I'm getting a mac next time.
