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hippie_chickMy computer was just acting hella wonky.
I logged on fine this morning after first waking up, and puttered around. Good. Turned off the 'puter, made coffee, ate breakfast.
Went back to 'puter, turned it on. Uh oh.
The thing wanted to do 'chkdsk' which is fine, that's always a smart thing to do, and it was scheduled to do that. Well, flashes off after like 50 percent of the first of three parts, and I get the blue screen of death that everyone just loves ::sarcasm:: .
I run safe mode. At first, I couldn't even get into that. It would freeze. Then after a minute of hanging there the second time, it went up. Okay. Now I can go in and run antivirus (caught the Java Byte Verify trojan and aptly rid myself of it) got rid of any adware, did some housekeeping. I even brought up the command prompt to run 'chkdsk/f' but it kept saying that another process was using the volume. ::confused look, shaking head:: Okay.
Restart. Computer attempts to check my C drive again. Blue screen of death again. Oh shit. I rebooted and attempted "last known good configuration". Nothing. aborted 'chkdsk/f' and blue screen of death again.
Left it, as it kept trying to reboot itself over and over. Went to my dad's computer in the other room to attempt to find some tech support sites that might give me a few ideas. Spent about ten minutes. Come back in here, and there's my regular configuration, desktop intact, internet, bells, whistles and all.
Woah. I do need to defrag, so I may go do that right now.
I haven't tried to reboot to see what happens. Almost afraid to.
I love computers. NOT.
#$&#*#&%&*%#&%!
UPDATE:
Whatever seemed to be the problem with this thing before looks like it's resolved itself. Really strange. But I defragged and am running smooth. Thank goodness!
I logged on fine this morning after first waking up, and puttered around. Good. Turned off the 'puter, made coffee, ate breakfast.
Went back to 'puter, turned it on. Uh oh.
The thing wanted to do 'chkdsk' which is fine, that's always a smart thing to do, and it was scheduled to do that. Well, flashes off after like 50 percent of the first of three parts, and I get the blue screen of death that everyone just loves ::sarcasm:: .
I run safe mode. At first, I couldn't even get into that. It would freeze. Then after a minute of hanging there the second time, it went up. Okay. Now I can go in and run antivirus (caught the Java Byte Verify trojan and aptly rid myself of it) got rid of any adware, did some housekeeping. I even brought up the command prompt to run 'chkdsk/f' but it kept saying that another process was using the volume. ::confused look, shaking head:: Okay.
Restart. Computer attempts to check my C drive again. Blue screen of death again. Oh shit. I rebooted and attempted "last known good configuration". Nothing. aborted 'chkdsk/f' and blue screen of death again.
Left it, as it kept trying to reboot itself over and over. Went to my dad's computer in the other room to attempt to find some tech support sites that might give me a few ideas. Spent about ten minutes. Come back in here, and there's my regular configuration, desktop intact, internet, bells, whistles and all.
Woah. I do need to defrag, so I may go do that right now.
I haven't tried to reboot to see what happens. Almost afraid to.
I love computers. NOT.
#$&#*#&%&*%#&%!UPDATE:
Whatever seemed to be the problem with this thing before looks like it's resolved itself. Really strange. But I defragged and am running smooth. Thank goodness!
