black screen of death – suicide computers
Saturday, October 20th, 2012 | tags: 3 frowns, blue screen, computers, Cupboard, Dad, error, fix it, laptop |
When I got to work I found the door kicked-in and half a dozen laptops stolen. Booo!
The desktop computer I was planning to use wasn’t stolen. Phew!
When I turned it on this frustrating black message showed-up. Disbelievingly I rebooted the computer 3 x. Just incase. It didn’t make any difference. Poo!
Our IT department had a super-hero taking-out the hard drive and getting my stuff on a working (Apple) hard drive, in less than 30 minutes. Though I suspect that actually having an external boot disc for the computer would have been much quicker. But who uses external boot CD’s these days?!
After such a dramatic ‘where’s my computer gone’ day at work I was relieved to be home. The Cupboard had other ideas. She was considering a sympathy suicide. She leapt to the floor. Bollocks. She may have shown me a blue screen of death, but all I can remember was this monochrome thing when I attempted a reboot to fix it. She’s defintiely passed away.
Dad has always claimed that I have special powers over electrical equipment. He’s an electrician, he knows these things. He says I can break electrical goods by merely looking at them. I was never allowed to go near electrical equipment as a child. At least it was for a good reason, not like - ‘you can’t do that you’re a girl’. My life experience suggests that dad was onto something.
I need a new computer….. oooooeererrr.
Hooray! New toy!
What should I get? ipad? Chrome thingy? Surface thingy?
