{"id":406,"date":"2005-05-20T08:54:42","date_gmt":"2005-05-20T15:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/?p=406"},"modified":"2005-05-20T15:07:16","modified_gmt":"2005-05-20T22:07:16","slug":"syscrash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/2005\/05\/20\/syscrash\/","title":{"rendered":"TOTAL SYSTEM CRASH T_T"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lesson 1<\/strong>: Using your computer during a lightning storm is not<\/b> a good idea.
\nThere was a lightning storm last night—a pretty intense one, in fact. I had just finished watching CSI (in case you’re wondering, I don’t watch that on a regular basis) and I decided to do a few things online. About ten minutes later, my computer froze. Yikes. (Apologies to anyone I was talking to on MSN at the time.) So I pressed “RESET,” hoping for the best, and I see this message:
\nInvalid system disk
\nPress any key to continue<\/tt>
\n“Aiyah~!” I think. Needless to say, the next hour and the better part of this morning have been devoted to hunting down disks, installing programs, and fervently wishing things would work.<\/p>\n

Lesson 2<\/strong>: When you need to find installation disks, it will be next to impossible.
\nThere are two drawers in my computer desk. I know I keep the one for Internet on the left-hand side. Lo and behold, it’s not there. Aigh. I find it half an hour later in a box in the right-hand side. What was I thinking?<\/p>\n

Lesson 3<\/strong>: Backup often.
\nI think I lost 10 GB of music last night. I am not a happy camper. Luckily, I backed up all my music about three weeks ago, so I’m only missing the most recent downloads (including F.I.R.’s new album! I hadn’t even listened to it yet.) I can’t think of much site work that can’t be recovered (thank goodness I upload as soon as I finish working on something.)<\/p>\n

So far, I’ve re-installed:
\nWindows XP
\nOffice XP with Frontpage
\nAdobe Photoshop 7.0
\nNorton Systemworks<\/p>\n

For some reason, sound is not working (I hope my sound card isn’t fried! Not that I could tell anyway) and I haven’t re-installed the printer drivers yet. Or the router, for that matter. *sigh*<\/p>\n

Progress report at 12:33 pm: I am working on re-downloading Unlimited<\/em>, but I’ve installed AVG antivirus (should I go for Sophos instead?) and ZoneAlarm’s free firewall. Oh, and I have Firefox back. I am most incensed, however, that I have lost all my bookmarks. I must have had at least 50 different webpages for language learning and tools. Arrrrgh.<\/p>\n

Progress report at 3:01 pm: I think my sound card is fried. Darn. I want to open the case and double check that. Lesson 4<\/strong>: Never buy a computer with an integrated sound card. Or, if you do, don’t leave the computer on during a thunderstorm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TOTAL. SYSTEM. CRASH.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}