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A Pinch and a Punch...
Sun Jul 01 2001

And if you don't know the saying 'a pinch and a punch for the first of the month', don't worry too much about it :)

I might be back... I'm not positive...

You probably didn't know I was gone either *grin*.

Quick Summary of events:
I moved house (which went very smoothly, many thanks to all the well wishers!) and as part of the move I did a bunch of major changes to my PC (mostly, swapped case with my server) that resulted in me having a nice big new drive ultimately. This was going great for about a week.

Thursday, something didnt seem quite right, but it was bed time so I ignored it.

Friday I could barely convince the machine to boot up.
Literally it would get half way through booting and then crash and reboot all over. On the odd occasion that it got all the way through it would crash most of the services the loaded and if it didn't crash any important ones you could just about log in and maybe see Windows Explorer before it suddenly rebooted itself again.

Suffice to say that my dad took a fresh look at it after I've been going crazy on it and he got it working, i'll leave the explanations about why for my own diary...

If it all keeps hanging together though, and its been quite stable all evening, I think we might have cracked it and i'm back :) If I disappear though, it means it didn't work yet.......

Still, I got a new motherboard and a lightning fast CPU out of the deal :)

Matt.

13 Comments
  • From:
    Tinoz (Legacy)
    On:
    Sun Jul 01 2001
    Maybe it's me but, 'a pinch and a punch for the first of the month' sounds painful. Hope it don't come back. *Hides in corner hoping that no one decides to pinch or punch me*
  • From:
    Serenity (Legacy)
    On:
    Sun Jul 01 2001
    *grins* I am jealous of your pc. hehehehe
  • From:
    HappyKat (Legacy)
    On:
    Sun Jul 01 2001
    i came here to learn what the pinch and the punch was.

    I feel like someone's given me a joke without deliving the punchline.

    I can't help it, I'm a curious cat.

  • From:
    Buggie (Legacy)
    On:
    Sun Jul 01 2001
    an
    a flick an a kick for bein so quick
    LOL

    kiddin

    an yes
    i miss u round!
    who to annoy now!

    come back soon
    hope ur pooter gets all fixed

    love lil buggie
  • From:
    Kaliko88 (Legacy)
    On:
    Sun Jul 01 2001
    *ducks*
  • From:
    NooNoo (Legacy)
    On:
    Sun Jul 01 2001
    Welcome back!
  • From:
    CastleMistress (Legacy)
    On:
    Mon Jul 02 2001
    I wanted to ask.... can you add a log out button to our DearDiary?
    Because if two people at one home have a diary, we can't change users, because when one person is done updating their diary, the other can't log in until a lot of time passes....

    I keep going to login, and it keeps taking me to my diary, and so nobody else can log in from my house..... =0)
  • From:
    CastleMistress (Legacy)
    On:
    Mon Jul 02 2001
    It's been an hour since I posted the last message... and when I click on Login , my diary automatically loads,...

    I have no way to log out, and I really really want to log out of my diary, so we can log into another diary.... *S*

    It's so frustrating.... when I used to live with my mom,... I had to wait hours just to log in, or else her diary would automatically load every time I clicked Login....

    I just thought I would suggest it... since I know I have been wishing you had a logout button for a long time... finally thought I would say something about it....

    just a suggestion... that would help us all...

    CM
  • From:
    Atlas (Legacy)
    On:
    Mon Jul 02 2001
    And update the talkback ;)
  • From:
    Pringles (Legacy)
    On:
    Mon Jul 02 2001
    hey...castlemistress has a good idea..I was just wishing for a log out button last night....
  • From:
    PrettyNpink (Legacy)
    On:
    Tue Jul 03 2001
    Kewl on the motherboard! Lightening fast! That's awesome!

    ;)
  • From:
    Midnightsnooper (Legacy)
    On:
    Wed Jul 04 2001
    would you please put a stop to nastynick. His entry july 2nd is a copy of my entry. He aimed his entire attack at Lilith and pNp who he believes that I am.
    Please see what you can do.
  • From:
    Sookey (Legacy)
    On:
    Wed Jul 04 2001
    please remove sookey "motherless woman" from your top 10 list and if possible make it impossible for her to ever be there again. Someone from UK gave me 781 hits yesterday.
    thank you.
    Sookey