12th September 2003, 5:32 PM
A recent thuderstorm has left my computer in ruins. The monitor and modem have been vaporized, but luckily it looks like nothing else was damaged. But that isn't all. When I installed the new modem it made my computer freeze up and messed up everytime I tried to start up, so I took the new modem out and put the old one back so that I install the drivers for the modem. It started up fine, but when it got Windows everything ran slow so I decided to shut down and restart it, hoping that that would fix any leftover problems. When I started it up however it cheerfully informed me that the driver file was missing or corrupt and that Windows could not start until I fixed this problem. Now, this has happened once before and I just left it alone for a while and the problem went away on it's own, although I have no idea how, but I was using my brother's monitor so I haven't had a chance to check it again. I would be able to fix it easily if I had the Windows XP disc, but I can't find it. Tomorrow I'm going to get a new monitor, so hopefully after that I can fix any remaining problems.
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Stupid electronics...
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Stupid electronics...
Sometimes you get the scorpion.