As Bloggers, we can cope with almost all situations. I have myself blogged 24 hours after being admitted to hospital, and death, incarnation, weddings and even childbirth is not enough to stop people blogging. Ally, I’m expecting a deep, intricate yet tasteful account.
However, there is one thing that can happen to us bloggers to stop us dead in our tracks.
It happened to me, yesterday morning, when I saw this:
Yes. The one thing that bloggers fear, and especially me, is their PC completely screwing up beyond all comprehension.
Hence this entry.
Yesterday was spent trying to rescue it. I picked up a nasty injury when I impaled myself on my graphics card, the results of which you can see to the right. I thought I fixed it at 5 in the evening, but the above error greeted me after a restart (which the computer forced, the bastard).
Any suggestions? I really don’t want to take it to a shop to fix it. Partly because they’ll charge me a fortune, and partly because I am a man and automatically think “I haven’t got any porn on my PC……..have I?!?”
So, that’s today’s update. Sorry it’s not funny or informative. Colwyn Bay drew 2-2 with Belper & the referee in a handicap football match, and I’ve spent all Sunday drinking good ales and eating good food in the Pen. So even if my PC was working, the blogger probably isn’t.
And before you ask, this is written on my Wii. Yes it took forever.
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Rhys Wynne, the author of this blog, is a 20 something web designer from Colwyn Bay.
aaah i’ve had that so many times!! you can jsut skip it as far as i remember!
i do believe it’s something to do with a fudged windows installation.
*pops to google*
Have a look at this.. should solve all your problems!>
emailed it to you as well so you can print it off at work! first time i’ve had to help you out with pc support me thinks! And from the otherside fo the world! what do i get??
I had a similar problem with my computer. It was a corrupt startup file. It started from setup CD rom, I backed up all my work (cause I obviously hadn’t done that for like 3years). Then I formatted the whole sucker and started from scratch.
So do that… then buy a Mac hehe
Yes, Ryan has the proper solution.
I remember the days of living in fear of the blue screen of death, or trying to boot up only to fail… and spending hours trying to fix drivers and whatever other issues lay about.
Then I bought a Mac. Problem solved. Yay!!
OMG If you’d told me that was the problem I could have told you how to fix it! You load the setup disc and copy the files over, easy peasy! Or do it while the drive is slaved.
you need a mac.
how did you get the images up on a wii!?
The images were done on my downstairs PC, but the post was written on the Wii
Time for a format…
I can’t believe you went to your Wii to blog! THAT is dedication!
Generaly i would format my pc in such a situation . Btw which graphics card do you have ?
That’s pretty irritating for a blogger when your pc hangs and all you have to do is just.. wait for pc to reload
That really is one of my worst nightmares. I’m happy that it doesn’t happen very often…
Wait, you can blog on a Wii?
Blogging on a video game?!?!
That my friend is a level of dedication rarely seen.
Cudos to you!
You can blog from a Wii?! I didn’t know you could do that sort of thing. Shows you how much I know about the technological world. Anyway, I hope your computer gets better.
Stop impaling yourself or you’ll end up experiencing a Fatal Error.
Hi,Ryan
Well, my little solution for this kind of nightmares is: create backup copy every time I make some changes to my blog code and store this copy into my notebok, finally make a DB copy 1 a day (or 2 day).
So, every kind of Fatal Error (including harddisk “explosion”), is only a message (or nearly) !!!
Bye
Wow, you wrote it on the Wii? I am impressed. I have yet to go on WWW with my Wii. I did with my pS3, but it was a hassle.
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