Hallelujah! My Baby Has Come Back to Life!!!

[rusty_armour]

Just as I was beginning to fear the worse, my beautiful baby was resurrected from the dead! In other words, with the aid of the poor tech support guy from Dell, I was able to fix the problem with my computer. Actually, the poor tech support guy from Dell had given up and was suggesting new hard drives I could buy. After barely taking in what he had said, I thanked him for his help and hung up the phone. Then I went back and gave it a go myself. You see, I think the guy was leading me in the right direction, but I was missing certain steps along the way (like "Hit any key to boot"). You see, the problem was that I couldn't get on to Windows. I was just getting this black screen with various error messages. The tech guy got me to load in the Windows XP disk and was telling me to hit certain keys repeatedly (such as F12 and F8) to bypass the error messages and reach system menus. In other words, he was trying to help me re-install Windows. Once I got off the phone, I tried to repeat his steps and found a way to re-install Windows successfully. Not only that but the re-installation fixed this recurring problem I was having with my Internet access! Well, at least for now.

I'm definitely going to look into getting one of those portable external hard drives in case something like this happens again. I've been playing with the idea for a while because I only have 40 GB and more space would be wonderful.

I'm pretty sure that simmfaninmexico is the only person on my flist who will appreciate this, but I'm going to post the national anthem from Human Traffic to celebrate the re-birth of my computer! Take it away, Jip!:

"Techno Generation Anthem (Human Traffic Soundtrack, 1999)" (Watch on YouTube)

Yes, I know. I still need help. However, right now I don't care because my baby's BACK! :-)

Comments

[radiogaga80.livejournal.com]

You know, when my brother was still working in a computer shop, his boss refused to sell Dell computers because they gave so many problems. *g* Am glad to hear yours is resurrected - and I fully support the idea of an external harddrive. I have an 80GB one and all my photos, website backups, and lord knows what else is on it. :)

[rusty-armour.livejournal.com]

Well, to be fair to Dell, the problems were my fault. It's embarrassing so I won't go into details, but I know that I'm to blame. The computer is also four years old, so it's probably a minor miracle that it has survived under my care (or lack thereof) for all this time. *g*

It's great to hear another vote of confidence for the external hard drive. I was definitely thinking of it for things like photos and website backups. It would also be good for storing vids and MP3s. If I don't end up buying an external hard drive in the next couple of months then I might throw it on my Christmas list.