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SUNDAY, JULY 6, 2008 (9:56 PM)

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DUE TO TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES PART DEUX

(I'm feeling relieved)

So yea, I'm back, finally.

My "glytch" turned out to me more complicated than originally thought, and then turned out to be simpler than anyone thought. Ended up doing a lot of unnecessary things and running around in circles.... blah...

So here's what happened: While in the middle of playing WoW (shut up) the computer decides to shut down on it's own and reboot. Suddenly I get this warning alert that "NT loader is missing or corrupt"

blah

So I figure this is easy enough to fix, so I throw my backup disk in and go into repair mode, but the computer won't extract the files from the disk....

blah

So figuring the disk is bad, I call the manufacturer and pay money to get an official factory restore disk. they ship it out within a week and I try the repair again. Computer won't extract the files from the disk....

blah again!

So I take the whole thing to the place where I bought it (think Best buy, but wearing red) and find out that even though I purchased protection for the computer, the protection only covers hardware issues, not software, so it'll cost me 130 bucks to reformat the drive.

BLAH!

So I leave the computer there and the guy tells me it'll take two days (just to be safe) and they'll call me when it's done.... Two days roll by.... three days.... four days.... Every call I make has the same answer "We're still running tests... it looks like you have some bad ram.

BLAH-DE-BLAH BLAH!

"Isn't ram covered by my protection?" Sure it is. "Cool, find the bad ram and we'll figure out what to do"

So they set about finding out just WHICH stick of RAM is bad... I've got four sticks in there, they are telling me that two are bad.... So after another day and a half of "checking" the RAM they tell me that they pulled the bad stick of RAM (suddenly it went from two bad sticks to one) and tried to reformat.... it didn't work. Same problem, no NT Loader. "Sorry, we've tried everything. There's nothing we can do. But we WILL refund your money!"

BLAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! *smashing my hands on the keyboard*

So now, after having my computer in these chuckleheads' hands for a whole week, I'm right back where I started.

Blech

So I pick up my crippled computer and bring it home and decide to hit the phone book.

After hitting the phone book I decided to actually open it and see if there are any local computer repair places. I find one closer than where the chuckleheads are and call them. I explain the whole situation and they tell me to bring it in.

After a few hours they call me and say this: "We found the problem, one of your sticks of RAM is bad. We took it out and reformatted the drive. It's ready, you can come and pick it up any time."

Wait, what?

Turns out the chuckleheads pulled the wrong stick of RAM... that one was fine, it was a completely different stick that was bad. After pulling the bad memory, the software loaded with no problem. They even optimized my drive, installed the latest service pack updates and set my homepage for me. THEN they told me that my RAM is under a lifetime warranty and I can get the bad stick replaced for free! And on top of that, they charged me 40 dollars less than the chuckleheads did. I've got extra money now! These guys ROCK!

I guess the bottom line is after two weeks of pulling my hair out I took the computer to someone who knew what they were doing and they resolved the issue in 6 hours.

So let that be a lesson to you, boys and girls, The big fancy department store may look good and fancy and all that, but they don't know CRAP about computers!

Anyway, I'm back, TED is safe and restored to his previous self-imposed greatness, and the videos will be resuming soon. I'm tired.... lol

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Posted Jul 7, 08 by MrPoe (

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Glad you're back, sir! I swear just this past weekend I was trying to justify a future greenscreen purchase with Dunleavy by saying, "I want to do more creative videos like Buliwif!"

Posted Jul 6, 08 by 1WhiteCrow (

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That all must've been aggravating in the extreme. I'm sure glad you got everything sorted out. (Just between you and me, I think 'Best Buy' is the most hilariously mis-named place of business in the history of retail sales. 'Best' compared to what, one wonders?)

Posted Jul 6, 08 by HarveyLocust (

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f*in *a, after all that you should check out the NBC series calld 'Chuck' Im sure you'll get a kick outta it!