Monday, 21 April 2008

The AI cometh...

Up until this point we had assumed that the computer was merely buggy and unstable. After all, after all the driver installs it was now working fine. Games installed and everything, even on the 46" TV. Beautiful.

"Windows has installed an update becuase we forgot to program something important into the software before we sold it to you, you must restart"

Restart.

"ERROR: Windo-"

Restart.

"ERROR: Windo-"

Restart.

"ERROR: Windo-"

Hmmmmmmm....

OK Safe Mode.

Control Panel. Computer Management.

Error Log.

No errors recorded.

Hmmmmmmm....

Probably that "Update" that did it, let's system restore.

"You cannot system restore, because Windows didn't make any restore points."

Shiiiit!

OK well restart and click on- oops forgot to click, oh well let's just wait for it to crash again and then we'll...

Windows boots.

Perfectly.

For no reason.

And so followed a cat an mouse game over the next several days. We would install a patch or some other likely fix and the problem would go away until we least expected it but then when out bags were turned.

BAM.

Crash.

We eventually got Windows to stop restarting long enough to tell us the error

"Windows has had an unknown error in THE REGISTRY, which has rendered Windows BRUCK UP, you must reinstall windows, or buy a Mac in order to continue using this computer.

Error Number: 0x000thismakesnodifferenceasnotevenWEknowwhattheymean.LoveMicrosoft.

P.S. This has happened because YOU HAVE NO FRIENDS AND NOONE WILL EVER LOVE YOU"

OK, so the last bit was an exaggeration.. it didn't say we have No friends

It said we only have a small number...

Perhaps not enough to prove the computer had evolved into a sadistic and evil being? Read on...

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