{"id":70,"date":"2006-07-19T14:12:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-19T18:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bcrockett.com\/blog\/?p=70"},"modified":"2006-07-19T14:12:00","modified_gmt":"2006-07-19T18:12:00","slug":"i-heart-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bcrockett.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/i-heart-windows\/","title":{"rendered":"I Heart Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"

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While working thismorning, my lappy<\/a> started bogging down, so I decided to re-boot. It took nearly a half hour to save the document I was working on, and shut down iTunes. Then, I went to the Start menu to restart, and for over 5 minutes, nothing happened. At that point, I CTRL+ALT+DEL’d and still, nothing happened. Finally, I decided the only way to “fix<\/a>” my problems would be to take out the battery and unplug the power. So, that’s what I did. Then in calssic 8-bit Nintendo fashion, I blew into all the openings in the computer that I could find. Mic plugs, CD-ROM, USB jacks, headphones, and a couple of those PCMCIA slots were all subjected to this technique for an average of three seconds. <\/p>\n

Then, the re-boot. Then, the horror.<\/p>\n

I tried restarting in Safe Mode, Last Known Good Configuration, etc. THe whole kit-n-kaboodle. And nothing. It just flashes a quick blue screen and goes into a restart loop.<\/p>\n

Scott suggested it may have caught “the mexican virus.” He could be right, but are these the symptoms? I’m opening up to what others might have to contribute as far as diagnosis goes. Feel free to comment. For your effort, I’ll send you a fragment of the HD if I can’t get it fixed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While working thismorning, my lappy started bogging down, so I decided to re-boot. It took nearly a half hour to save the document I was working on, and shut down iTunes. Then, I went to the Start menu to restart, and for over 5 minutes, nothing happened. At that point, I CTRL+ALT+DEL’d and still, nothing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t