1. Start windows in safe Mode
2. Log on with CD-ROM Support
3. Log on with network support
These are the options that I am left with, all I can do is choose 1 to 3, it doesn’t matter which number I select because I know in a few moment I will be faced with this screen again. If I don’t make a choice on my own windows will chose for me, but still I will see this screen again in a few seconds. My computer has delved into a repetitive crash cycle; I have been staring at my 3 monochromatic choices for almost an hour, hoping that maybe next time it will work. What next? I cannot access the system BIOS, and my restore CD is as useless as warranty, which expired 10 days ago.
C:/
Dos, the last time I was here I used the PCBOSS OS to play PC Pool. But what the hell am I going to do with it now; I can’t even remember what the commands are. My screen is black, and the command prompt is flashing in the corner, as if to say “do something”. I can’t; I just stare blankly searching my own memory for answers.
C: dir/w
The list of files pops up on the screen, its familiar yet foreign. Quickly I search of an .EXE file, this all I can remember.
Win.EXE
Ahah I found it, my dos back door to windows, to my computer, my files, the internet, my life. But no dice windows still won’t boot. I have no choice, and revert back to the boot disk
FDISK.EXE
There it my out, my new life. I am on my to a reformatted system, a fresh slate, a new start.
Format C:/X
Format is unsupported, format terminated
This was the beginning of the end, my computer not booting up is one thing, having to reformat I can deal with, but faced with a fired motherboard…this is something I was not prepared for. The melt down of brain began, I pondered how much a new chipset would cost, who do I call what do I do now……..relax, I’ll just write so and so an email…….but how……how can I function, how have I become so dependent on this system.
It happened over night, one day we all woke up hooked, completely dependent on something that isn’t even tangible, something we can’t hold or touch or see, we are hooked on bandwidth and code. I know this, you know this but what can I do. The recent meltdown of my mainboard has made me think how dysfunctional I have become. I had 3 choices, and I continuously cycled through them knowing they wouldn’t work. When it came time for me to move beyond the box my brain was pushed to the max, I couldn’t think for my self. With out a instant reference like the internet at my finger tips I was useless. Normally I would just googol “dos commands” and be in the clear. So do I do this with my life, have I become so inept that I will only make the choices that are obviously available. Can I no longer think out side the box? I can answer this question for myself, but can you?
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