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My journet to the Twilight Zone
Atlantic_Cable Started conversation Jun 22, 2003
I'm at my sister's for a week. Her boyfriend bought a new optical mouse for the XP laptop he's got and installed the drivers, then re-booted as it told him.
The computer wouldn't start. It kept going to Blue screen of death and reset too quickly for me to see what was wrong, but it seemed to be a partition error.
I tried a few things.
Eventually I needed the boot disk, which was in his lab (he's a PhD student) a few mins away. Off we went, got to the lab and discovered that two medical fridges and freezers had stopped working and the specimens (very expensive and very hard to replace) were defrosting.
Quickly donning latex gloves we transferred the specimens to working frides and freezers, then got the disks and went home. Upon starting the computer, it loaded to blue screen, but asked if I wanted to skip the disk check. I said yes, then Windows loaded normally. I'm using it now.
But if it hadn't broken, we'd never have gone to the lab and £1000s and months of work would have been lost.
Spooky or what?
Do do do do, do do do do. You are about to enter - The Twilight Zone.....
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