Okay, I didn't mean to do it! But I think I've become the Dr. Kevorkian of the computer world. On Friday I was going to replace the graphics card in my computer at work. I know how to do this. It involves taking off the case on the tower, unplugging the old card and plugging in the new card. Unfortunately, the IT people had sent me a card that was much too sophisticated for my machine. The new card was designed for operating systems newer than Windows 95 and my machine, alas, is firmly stuck in the last century. So after using canned air to blow out dust bunnies the size of cotton balls, I blew off the old card and put it back. But now the computer is stuck in "safe mode". There is no coming back! I've tried everything and nothing works. There are other issues with this machine as well. Now it sits on my desk, clean and very, very sick. I am hoping that another will come to replace it, but that could take a little while. So for now, I've pulled the plug and draped the office in black. It is too, too sad.
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Windows 95? Wasn't that launched in 1995? Gosh, with the speed at which technology advances I thought my wife's 2 1/2 year old laptop was ancient! But wow, Windows 1995.
Have you considered taking that thing (and accompanying dust bunnies) to the Antiques Road Show?
I poured Diet Coke on my keyboard once and all my computer problems disappeared. Who knew?
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