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Oct. 26th, 2007 08:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
miko2My main computer is threatening to die... again.
I couldn't really say what the problem was. I was trying to work on it this morning but I had to leave for work. Same as yesterday.
What it's doing: Thursday morning I couldn't get the anti-virus program to run. So I rebooted. The computer failed to restart, so I turned it off and back on. It spent 30 minutes doing a diagnostic on drive D (the backup drive) fixing files and directories. When I finally got it back up I ran AVG, but I had to go to work.
When I got home AVG had finished running and found nothing. I really haven't found anything since last weekend when I removed all of the spyware. Anyway, the computer seemed fine and I used it the rest of the evening.
This morning, Firefox refused to run. I rebooted. The computer failed to restart. I turned it off and on. It spent 30 minutes doing a diagnostic on drive D, fixing files and directories. Hmmm. This seems quite familiar. Anyway, after all of that it booted up but didn't install all of the programs that it normally installs on startup, and Firefox still wouldn't run. I rebooted again... and it installed even fewer programs on startup, and nothing would run. Hmmm.
And then I had to go to work.
At this point I'm thinking I should backup my e-mail and a couple of other files -- everything else should be backed up -- and then I should do a complete reinstall, as I've been thinking of doing for weeks now.
And if that doesn't work, maybe I need a new computer. It's quite old. Except I don't really want to be buying a new computer right now.
I couldn't really say what the problem was. I was trying to work on it this morning but I had to leave for work. Same as yesterday.
What it's doing: Thursday morning I couldn't get the anti-virus program to run. So I rebooted. The computer failed to restart, so I turned it off and back on. It spent 30 minutes doing a diagnostic on drive D (the backup drive) fixing files and directories. When I finally got it back up I ran AVG, but I had to go to work.
When I got home AVG had finished running and found nothing. I really haven't found anything since last weekend when I removed all of the spyware. Anyway, the computer seemed fine and I used it the rest of the evening.
This morning, Firefox refused to run. I rebooted. The computer failed to restart. I turned it off and on. It spent 30 minutes doing a diagnostic on drive D, fixing files and directories. Hmmm. This seems quite familiar. Anyway, after all of that it booted up but didn't install all of the programs that it normally installs on startup, and Firefox still wouldn't run. I rebooted again... and it installed even fewer programs on startup, and nothing would run. Hmmm.
And then I had to go to work.
At this point I'm thinking I should backup my e-mail and a couple of other files -- everything else should be backed up -- and then I should do a complete reinstall, as I've been thinking of doing for weeks now.
And if that doesn't work, maybe I need a new computer. It's quite old. Except I don't really want to be buying a new computer right now.
