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Computer + Failure = No Art
16 years ago
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█▀███████▄▀▀██████▀▀▀▀▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▀▀▀█████████▀█▀██▀ Yesterday my computer died... kind of.
The computer itself is alive, but Windows is dead, and gives me a blue screen every time I try to start it, even with Safe Mode and all that other stuff enabled.
So now I'm forced to use this Linux based OS called Knoppix that works simply by running off a CD. It's not as good as Windows, not by a long shot, but at least I can access my data.
The sound doesn't work and it constantly freezes or crashes the programs it comes outfitted with, but it's still better than a blue screen with no other options, so I'll endure it for the time being.
Hopefully things will be back to normal soon, but until then I'm stuck with it.
All art is on hold until I can resolve these problems... :(
UPDATE
I found out that Knoppix was not compatible with NTFS, so I had to find something else.
With the help of a friend I found another similar thing with a miniature version of Windows XP on it, with full NTFS support! So now I hope I can backup all my data without any more major obstacles, I've already managed to get some of the most important data copied, but I still have tons and tons of other stuff to backup too, mostly 3D models and images, but also music, tons of zipped archives of stuff and other stuff as well. All in all I have about 85GB of data to copy, and so far I think I've only copied about 2, maybe 3GBs, so I still have a long way to go, but at least it's working!
This Mini Windows XP runs from my USB memory, so it's a lot less hassle than having to burn out stuff on CDs all the time like Knoppix had to, and it comes with Opera instead of that god awful worthless piece of garbage Firefox, so that's good too... not as good as proper XP with IE6, but it's still an improvement, and that is always welcome.
Sadly it lacks any type of other programs like Knoppix had though, no image editing programs (Knoppix had GIMP), no messenger programs (Knoppix had one, don't remeber the name, penguin something I think it was called...), no media players (Knoppix had one called GNOME) or any other stuff like that.
The strange thing is, neither Knoppix nor Mini XP can get sound to work... I'm beginning to think it may be my soundcard that is causing all these problems. At first I thought it was the RAM, but I've runs lots of tests and no errors have been found, then I tested the harddrives a little, and none of those seemed to have any errors that might cause this problem either.
I dunno, I'm not into the technical side of computers much, but I'm going to disable audio in the BIOS to see if I may be able to startup the computer normally by doing that. If that doesn't work I'll just assume it's something else causing all this, something completely unknown to me.
So yeah, I'll be busy copying files and stuff for a while...
The computer itself is alive, but Windows is dead, and gives me a blue screen every time I try to start it, even with Safe Mode and all that other stuff enabled.
So now I'm forced to use this Linux based OS called Knoppix that works simply by running off a CD. It's not as good as Windows, not by a long shot, but at least I can access my data.
The sound doesn't work and it constantly freezes or crashes the programs it comes outfitted with, but it's still better than a blue screen with no other options, so I'll endure it for the time being.
Hopefully things will be back to normal soon, but until then I'm stuck with it.
All art is on hold until I can resolve these problems... :(
UPDATE
I found out that Knoppix was not compatible with NTFS, so I had to find something else.
With the help of a friend I found another similar thing with a miniature version of Windows XP on it, with full NTFS support! So now I hope I can backup all my data without any more major obstacles, I've already managed to get some of the most important data copied, but I still have tons and tons of other stuff to backup too, mostly 3D models and images, but also music, tons of zipped archives of stuff and other stuff as well. All in all I have about 85GB of data to copy, and so far I think I've only copied about 2, maybe 3GBs, so I still have a long way to go, but at least it's working!
This Mini Windows XP runs from my USB memory, so it's a lot less hassle than having to burn out stuff on CDs all the time like Knoppix had to, and it comes with Opera instead of that god awful worthless piece of garbage Firefox, so that's good too... not as good as proper XP with IE6, but it's still an improvement, and that is always welcome.
Sadly it lacks any type of other programs like Knoppix had though, no image editing programs (Knoppix had GIMP), no messenger programs (Knoppix had one, don't remeber the name, penguin something I think it was called...), no media players (Knoppix had one called GNOME) or any other stuff like that.
The strange thing is, neither Knoppix nor Mini XP can get sound to work... I'm beginning to think it may be my soundcard that is causing all these problems. At first I thought it was the RAM, but I've runs lots of tests and no errors have been found, then I tested the harddrives a little, and none of those seemed to have any errors that might cause this problem either.
I dunno, I'm not into the technical side of computers much, but I'm going to disable audio in the BIOS to see if I may be able to startup the computer normally by doing that. If that doesn't work I'll just assume it's something else causing all this, something completely unknown to me.
So yeah, I'll be busy copying files and stuff for a while...
