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June 23, 2003

Guess who's reinstalling Windows?

The local PC store has performed every conceivable test on my broken computer. With a new new motherboard and new new RAM, it works fine...except if they put in my 120MB hard drive where Windows XP lives. They cloned that drive to another and still get blue screens of death. Hence, my installation of XP is corrupt, possibly caused by the faulty memory they'd installed originally.

So, this afternoon I get my PC back with a new mobo and RAM, and with a reformatted drive with XP installed. And so, for at least the 4th time in the past ten days or so I will be spending 30+ hours setting up my work environment again.

Why do I have the suspicion that when I'm done it's still going to work for 2 days (i.e., just enough time for me to be finishing up the re-insall) and then start crashing?

Posted by D. Weinberger at June 23, 2003 02:04 PM

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Comments

You have my sympathies, but maybe it's time you faced up to the only course of action that's sensible under these circumstances. You're just going to have to take a very big hammer and have a very meaningful conversation, peppered with threats of violence and ample hammer brandishing, with your computer. It's the only way. It will start to behave once it realises what the alternative is.

I know they tell us that computers run on electricity or somesuch, but the reality is that there's a small community of imps with typewriters in that beige box, and if you don't tell them who's boss they'll mess you around until the end of time. This tactic has worked for years with my HP Deskjet, so hopefully you will also find it efficacious.

Failing that, remove the offending hardware, introduce it forcefully and dramatically to your hammer, and then replace it with new parts. Expensive, true, but very satisfying. Apparently.

Posted by: suw | June 23, 2003 02:19 PM

You coudl switch to Panther instead...

Posted by: Kevin Marks | June 23, 2003 04:14 PM

What, nobody's said you wouldn't have this problem if you had a Mac yet? They're slipping.

As we all know, Mac hardware never breaks.

Posted by: Richard Bennett | June 23, 2003 08:05 PM

I just can't shut my pie hole.

Posted by: Whiny Communist Bitch | November 12, 2004 07:34 PM