Broken Computer
Fortunately, it wasn’t mine this time. Dennis called earlier this evening with a problem, his computer wouldn’t boot! It was tossing out all sorts of disk read errors and giving him lots of guff. So he brought the computer over to my place to be cleaned up. We rescued some of his data thankfully, and then began the process of wiping the drive clean and reinstalling the OS. Unfortunately, his bios didn’t want to accept the drive, and it took reflashing the bios and a low level format on the hard drive to get the two to play nice. Dennis stayed for several hours, but ended up needing to go home. He left the computer here, and I’ve been tinkering with it, and making general progress, in between drinking wine and watching Sealab 2021. Not too bad a way to spend an evening.
Hopefully I’ll get it purring nicely tonight, and then I’ll finish it up tomorrow so that Dennis can finish his papers up.
Update: Finally, at 5:20am, the computer lives again! Now I’ll just leave it to install the gadzillion security fixes that Microsoft has queued up for it, and tomorrow it shall receive a hot program injection as I reinstall all of Dennis’s crapola. He sure owes me for this one… I’m thinking sensual massage.
Tuesday 16 Dec 2003 | Sam | Misc. Technical
You are a lifesaver dude!!! He was so worried about it. He called me last nite at like 1130 without even worrying about waking me up. I hope that he can still finish everything and have all his opera stuff to work on over the break. Hell, I’d give you a sensual massage for helping him out. You know unless youd rather have your Den-den. ;)~
Hey Son,
You have always had a way with fixing computers. I remember betting you $10 your first home-made computer wouldn’t boot—- little did I know that the BIOS would have booted with a D-cell battery on it. But I paid you the 10 bucks anyway just to reward your patience. I think you were 16.
Now, for $10 more, what was the name of the super nice guy at Data Service Center (DSC) who made the nifty Win95 Boot Floppy so your OS would work?
Daddy-O
As I recall, rod, you had bet me a second 10$ that I couldn’t get the OS to load up on the first try, which I also did.
As to the maker of the disk… Thats a hard one.. Was it Dave?