I’ve had enough of them for one day… how can my computer stay perfectly running for years, while their PCs of others seem to break all the time? No offense to the person who’s computer I’m fixing at the moment, of course, I’m complaining more about the computers than then people who own them.
So, a computer randomly throws up a BSOD, then refuses to boot from then on. I pegged it as a corrupt registry, so I restored a previous version so I could get into the GUI, and then tried system restore… which broke it again. Broke it so much, in fact, that the recovery console didn’t feel like loading anymore, which isn’t entirely helpful. So then I pulled out an old PCI dial-up modem (what was that doing in there anyway?), and the thing booted perfectly. I hate how the problem and the solution seem to have no relation at all.
…so anyway, that worked for a few days, whereupon it threw up another BSOD and stopped booting, just to taunt me some more. So I just told it to fuck off and reformatted the bugger. That’ll show it. I did have a few problems mounting the hard drive to transfer some files over the network (side note – I now know how to create a network!), so I’m guessing it’s the hard drive that’s gone kaput. If that damn BSOD comes back from the grave, I’m going to throw this computer out the window. Seriously.
Now that this farce is over with, maybe I’ll have time to, you know, play WoW.