Day of the BSOD

[athenaltena]

If I never see another Blue Screen of Death it'll be too soon.

So this morning when I booted up the computer crashed. And then crashed again. And again. And again. Ad nauseum. It would work for a few minutes, then *bam* down again. I couldn't even get on the internet to see what was going on before it crashed.

I ended up calling first Microsoft, but because I couldn't find the disc my version of Windows 7 came on and the precious ID number, so they shunted me over to Gateway. The guy was going to have me wipe my whole hard drive, but it appears that some parts of it had become corrupted and all I had to do was wipe those though the setup at start up. Or something, I'm not too good with this stuff. Either way my files are safe and I didn't have to do anything too drastic, but just to be safe I'm making another backup of everything and so far it hasn't crashed again. It seems a bit clunky, but that may be due to running the backup.

*headdesk*

Comments

[comingin2day.livejournal.com]

Very sorry to hear that.. that is scary when that happens. Thank you for reminding me to back up my computer/important items.

[athenaltena.livejournal.com]

I know it nearly gave me a heart attack when it started doing that, but I appear to have fixed it. *knock on wood* I'm also bad about backing stuff up consistently, but this was a kick in the pants to do it.

[ar-wahan.livejournal.com]

Might that Windows 7 disc be here?

[athenaltena.livejournal.com]

I don't think so, since I installed Windows 7 while I was in Boston since they sent it in the mail to my apartment, as I don't think the disc ever ended up out there with you guys. It's probably just somewhere in my room where I can't find it, and it's hopefully a moot point now.

[comingin2day.livejournal.com]

yes, it is a nasty reminder that this computer while so valuable and important is suseptable to outside influences..:)