lesman
03-20-2005, 01:40 AM
HERES MINE!
I had a horrible exerience...some may have noticed I havent posted in about 40 something hours or so...well, not to go into too much detail, I'm getting married soon, just got a new job, and the house is being crazily redone....in the middle of this, somehow I decided it was time to give my computer a nice refreshing format...ahh...a clean registry...cleaned hard drive...etc etc etc...but it wasn't that easy....noooo....as few might recall, my current setup used to be an emachines, but after a whole lot of modification, inside and out, it now looks cooler and runs better. but then came time to reformat.
Now, deep deep down it's still an emachines, and I found that out when I went to reformat (or reload windows, whatever you wanna say) so I pop in the reformat/reload disc and reboot. Voila! I wish actually. It gets to the point where I name my computer....after I rename the son of a bitch...it hangs. Just sits there, taking its sweet ass time doing nothing. PROBLEMATIC! My girlfriend and I know next to no one else who has a computer other than ourselves, and she has some college papers due NOW....great....I'm scared for my life...I dont want to call emachines to see if there's some back door to this because Im afraid they'll tell me to send it in or something (if I did send it in theyd think it was some retard thinking it was already april fools day or something).
Since the only copy of windows that I currently own is on the "emachines only" disk, and all the software I JUST ERASED FROM C DRIVE is on the disc....I'm very scared and dont want to try ANYTHING other than keep putting in the reformat disc.....I eventually have no choice but to call emachines....I work up a little courage and do so. So then I called up emachines and to my simple joy they tell me just to press F8 and enable VGA mode. It boots just fine, and then I eventually get to the desktop. WOW...been a while since I've seen 800x600 screen resolution and 8 bit color depth! Talk about some eye-trash! I quickly fix that and all goes well. Then I bust out the service pack 2 and its goin' good! That is until the computer has to reboot. It shuts down for that split second like its supposed to, its all goin' good, the loading status bars are now a different color, as thats what happens, and then they stop moving....it's happened before for a few seconds...but that few seconds turns into a few minutes....then I get pissed off. SO.....I use the restore DVD AGAIN! Try doing it normal for my minds curiosity...does the same thing...name the computer...it hangs....so I restart and push F8....try that...BUT IT DOESNT WORK...
So I called emachines (needed my activation key in any case any way) and turns out instead of clicking "cancel" on an option I was pushing "ok"....stupid me...stupid me....then everything goes ok from there...except now I have to reload al my programs...put in all my backup...download all the windows security updates, reinstall the graphics card (which happens to be a pain in the ass with this emachines) After some trouble and a few other cliffs, I finally get it back to how it was...without all the fucked up registry keyes, and cluttered drives. The only thing is, I'm running service pack 1...thats safe, right? I mean, it should be, as long as I have all the updates, latest antivirus and spyware programs, correct? Well, thats the story of how I got scared, aggrivated, and incredibly stressed out...but hey, the computers clean, the carpet is new, and I'm happy now...just figured I'd share this story with you guys....in fact, I'm changing the topic of this thread....its now post youre most horrible reformat/reloading experience!
I had a horrible exerience...some may have noticed I havent posted in about 40 something hours or so...well, not to go into too much detail, I'm getting married soon, just got a new job, and the house is being crazily redone....in the middle of this, somehow I decided it was time to give my computer a nice refreshing format...ahh...a clean registry...cleaned hard drive...etc etc etc...but it wasn't that easy....noooo....as few might recall, my current setup used to be an emachines, but after a whole lot of modification, inside and out, it now looks cooler and runs better. but then came time to reformat.
Now, deep deep down it's still an emachines, and I found that out when I went to reformat (or reload windows, whatever you wanna say) so I pop in the reformat/reload disc and reboot. Voila! I wish actually. It gets to the point where I name my computer....after I rename the son of a bitch...it hangs. Just sits there, taking its sweet ass time doing nothing. PROBLEMATIC! My girlfriend and I know next to no one else who has a computer other than ourselves, and she has some college papers due NOW....great....I'm scared for my life...I dont want to call emachines to see if there's some back door to this because Im afraid they'll tell me to send it in or something (if I did send it in theyd think it was some retard thinking it was already april fools day or something).
Since the only copy of windows that I currently own is on the "emachines only" disk, and all the software I JUST ERASED FROM C DRIVE is on the disc....I'm very scared and dont want to try ANYTHING other than keep putting in the reformat disc.....I eventually have no choice but to call emachines....I work up a little courage and do so. So then I called up emachines and to my simple joy they tell me just to press F8 and enable VGA mode. It boots just fine, and then I eventually get to the desktop. WOW...been a while since I've seen 800x600 screen resolution and 8 bit color depth! Talk about some eye-trash! I quickly fix that and all goes well. Then I bust out the service pack 2 and its goin' good! That is until the computer has to reboot. It shuts down for that split second like its supposed to, its all goin' good, the loading status bars are now a different color, as thats what happens, and then they stop moving....it's happened before for a few seconds...but that few seconds turns into a few minutes....then I get pissed off. SO.....I use the restore DVD AGAIN! Try doing it normal for my minds curiosity...does the same thing...name the computer...it hangs....so I restart and push F8....try that...BUT IT DOESNT WORK...
So I called emachines (needed my activation key in any case any way) and turns out instead of clicking "cancel" on an option I was pushing "ok"....stupid me...stupid me....then everything goes ok from there...except now I have to reload al my programs...put in all my backup...download all the windows security updates, reinstall the graphics card (which happens to be a pain in the ass with this emachines) After some trouble and a few other cliffs, I finally get it back to how it was...without all the fucked up registry keyes, and cluttered drives. The only thing is, I'm running service pack 1...thats safe, right? I mean, it should be, as long as I have all the updates, latest antivirus and spyware programs, correct? Well, thats the story of how I got scared, aggrivated, and incredibly stressed out...but hey, the computers clean, the carpet is new, and I'm happy now...just figured I'd share this story with you guys....in fact, I'm changing the topic of this thread....its now post youre most horrible reformat/reloading experience!