Thursday, March 19, 2009

The Blue Screen of Death

The first hint of spring in the mountains was a faint sweep of transparent red. Like a watercolor of the winter slopes in their grays, where someone wet a brush and added just a touch of some magenta-looking paint, then swept it over the trees. Just enough color to see, not thick enough to hide what's beneath.

Buds on the trees, I think.

When I got up and started the truck this morning, the computer screen came up blue. Microsoft blue. With a long explanation of its motive for dumping its memory to disk and shutting down.

Page fault in an unpaged area, if I recall.

It shut down, restarted, and did it again.

The third time it came up, but nothing worked. Except the routine that locked out the hard reset. Because the machine hadn't locked up, you see.

So I got to the shipper, parked the truck, went into the cargo section and unplugged the black box. (I'm not supposed to know how to do that...) After waiting a few and plugging it back in, it was fine.

See? I didn't get away from PC problems. I just have a nicer view while I'm trying to forget them.

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