{"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":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/283\/806\/1600\/Image013.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/283\/806\/400\/Image013.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While working thismorning, my <a target=\"blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hrwiki.org\/index.php\/Lappy_486\">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&#8217;d and still, nothing happened. Finally, I decided the only way to &#8220;<a target=\"blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&#038;q=define%3A+ruin&#038;btnG=Google+Search\">fix<\/a>&#8221; my problems would be to take out the battery and unplug the power. So, that&#8217;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<p>Then, the re-boot. Then, the horror.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>Scott suggested it may have caught &#8220;the mexican virus.&#8221; He could be right, but are these the symptoms? I&#8217;m opening up to what others might have to contribute as far as diagnosis goes. Feel free to comment. For your effort, I&#8217;ll send you a fragment of the HD if I can&#8217;t get it fixed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;d and still, nothing [&hellip;]<\/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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bcrockett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bcrockett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bcrockett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bcrockett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bcrockett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bcrockett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bcrockett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bcrockett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bcrockett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}