{"id":1893,"date":"2007-10-23T19:23:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-23T19:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeffreyatw.wordpress.com\/2007\/10\/23\/my-computer-is-extremely-dead\/"},"modified":"2007-10-23T19:23:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-23T19:23:00","slug":"my-computer-is-extremely-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/my-computer-is-extremely-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"My computer is extremely dead"},"content":{"rendered":"

So for the past few days my computer’s had a little trouble booting up. I’d have to restart it because it wouldn’t get past loading Vista. Yesterday, though, the progress bar simply froze. I came back a few hours later (after class) and it was still there, frozen.
\nVista’s repair DVD didn’t detect any problems. Scandisk didn’t detect anything, either. So I decided I’d try reinstalling. Worked for two reboots, and then it froze on the third one. Maybe some hardware components were the problem. I took out a wireless card and sound card I don’t use anymore, and it worked once, but then no more.
\nSo then I decided to install Vista on another disk, assuming the first disk was busted. Worked for a few times, and then it locked up. Okay, maybe it was something else on the IDE chain – I removed every IDE device, including CD drives, and unplugged all USB devices, and still – even after running on a disk I had put inside the computer just to install Vista, it would still hang after a few initial reboots.
\nSafe mode works most of the time. I just don’t know what in safe mode makes it work, while booting up normally doesn’t.
\nSo I’m lost. I don’t know what’s causing the problem. If it’s nothing IDE-related, and it’s not the disk that’s in there, then the only things I can think of are RAM (which I memtested), my video card (which I uninstalled drivers for to disable video acceleration – no luck), or my motherboard. No idea.
\nThis really sucks. I’ve always been able to pinpoint the problem, but I’m really out of luck this time. I don’t know what to do. I don’t want to buy new RAM or a new motherboard because they might be perfectly fine. Maybe I should just install Ubuntu on my computer and say farewell to my days as a Windows user (and as a computer gamer and web designer – HAHA FAT CHANCE) forever?
\nedit<\/b> fixed (for now!) Thanks hatchling<\/a>!!<\/strike> HAHAHA DISREGARD THAT, I SUCK COCKS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So for the past few days my computer’s had a little trouble booting up. I’d have to restart it because it wouldn’t get past loading Vista. Yesterday, though, the progress bar simply froze. I came back a few hours later (after class) and it was still there, frozen. Vista’s repair DVD didn’t detect any problems.… Continue reading My computer is extremely dead<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}