There it was...
A black screen...
The only thing showing was this: Y:\
It wouldn't do anything else. It just sat there showing "Y:\". No Microsoft Windows logo. Nothing! I couldn't believe it. I "blew it up" apparently. Then panic sat in and I couldn't help but think that my brother was going to kill me. This was a brand new Packard Bell (I know that shows some age) computer and I messed it up. Oh yea, I thought I knew something about them. After all, I spent the whole day before playing on it. All of a sudden it restarted and that is what I got. I do not recall what I had clicked or what I was doing when it happened but all I knew was that it didn't work anymore.
He eventually came in their to check it out and could tell something was wrong. I had to own up to it. I started my apologizing and promising I would fix it, even though I had no clue as how to fix it. So, there I sat through out the night. My brother and his wife slept while I paniced and tried to read every book that came with it. I eventually came across the cd's that were included with the PC.
There it was beaming at me. Shining like a silver ray of hope!
Microsoft Windows 95
I had hope! I didn't know what it would do or even how to do it but I did hope that it was the answer. So, in it went into the cd tray. After restarting I saw the most beautiful thing... the installation prompt. YEAH!!!
Even though it took me till the wee hours of the morning to get it back running again and the sound didn't quite work, I was proud. I had accomplished something! I learned a valuable lesson that day about computers and if I could remember it I would be glad to share it with you.
A black screen...
The only thing showing was this: Y:\
It wouldn't do anything else. It just sat there showing "Y:\". No Microsoft Windows logo. Nothing! I couldn't believe it. I "blew it up" apparently. Then panic sat in and I couldn't help but think that my brother was going to kill me. This was a brand new Packard Bell (I know that shows some age) computer and I messed it up. Oh yea, I thought I knew something about them. After all, I spent the whole day before playing on it. All of a sudden it restarted and that is what I got. I do not recall what I had clicked or what I was doing when it happened but all I knew was that it didn't work anymore.
He eventually came in their to check it out and could tell something was wrong. I had to own up to it. I started my apologizing and promising I would fix it, even though I had no clue as how to fix it. So, there I sat through out the night. My brother and his wife slept while I paniced and tried to read every book that came with it. I eventually came across the cd's that were included with the PC.
There it was beaming at me. Shining like a silver ray of hope!
Microsoft Windows 95
I had hope! I didn't know what it would do or even how to do it but I did hope that it was the answer. So, in it went into the cd tray. After restarting I saw the most beautiful thing... the installation prompt. YEAH!!!
Even though it took me till the wee hours of the morning to get it back running again and the sound didn't quite work, I was proud. I had accomplished something! I learned a valuable lesson that day about computers and if I could remember it I would be glad to share it with you.
3 comments:
Great story!! And look at ya know mr computer guru!!
umm ... you probably just clicked restart in MS DOS or something dumb like that!
Nice lol...
Only slightly anticlimactic.