NEVER fix a 14 year old teen girls computer, EVER.

ziggeh · #1 (**permalink**) 11-13-2009, 01:15 AM

Holy shit. I am in utter disbelief as to how this girl managed to FUCK UP a decent computer so utterly and completely. Let me start by saying that the $30 im receiving will not cover the cost of the rogaine i will need after I am done ripping my damn hair out. After the first 2 hours of waiting for the 88 processes to start (literally) I finally managed to ctrl+alt+del and free up some ram... right? WRONG. oh forgot to mention, every single fucking windows service program or convenient short cut to any fucking useful program available in the entire computer has been virally deleted/moved/disabled to the point of no return. Thank the lord I managed to run msconfig and disable the enormous list of start up programs, which only eliminated half... since the other half is shoved so far up t he computers ass installation that it is literally :: IMPOSSIBLE :: to turn off. When I say IMPOSSIBLE I'm talking like 10+ years of computer repair, rebuilding and troubleshooting could not even touch this computer. Ok so the computer is ALMOST bearable... to look at. Now that the MSPaint Chris brown picture with the two paragraphs of how he will father the said computer owners (14 year old girl, mind you) children is off the desktop wallpaper I think this experience will be :slightly: more pleasant. Ok so I commence with my usual barrage of anti virus/adware/malware/spyware programs. After the over 2000+ infected files and over 1/4 of the entire harddrives space have been removed... I have gotten absolutely no where. The computer is not any faster, theres still a fucking million programs and beyond all that the Windows installation is most definately confirmed as corrupted to all hell. OK on to PLAN 3

So I called the kids parents, let them know the computer is beyond salvaging without reformatting the hard drive... backed up the files that were (semi) relevant (music, pics, random barbie bullshit) and proceeded to install WINXP via CDRom boot. Well earlier I didnt really notice that where the BIOS bootscreen was... was a blank screen. No changing the boot order, which means no boot-from-CD. Floppy drive? Newer computers dont have them. great. Ok well I doubted it would work but I decided to just go ahead and put that XP CD and autoplay it with the current windows installation. PROBLEM SOLVED WOO HOO... shits installating only 30 mins to go... restarting computer.... absolutely nothing... still nothing... and FRIED. yaaaay so now the computer totally does not work awesome! I push the power button, blank. AWESOME. OK on to PLAN 7.

Removed the hard drive from their computer, to hook it up in mine, use my bios to boot from cd and wipe their hard drive. Wouldve worked great, if it was compatible with my motherboard. Fuck. So now I gotta fucking borrow a god damn floppy drive from my neighbor, install it in this little super cunts shit pile of a computer and anciently boot off of 6 god damn floppy discs, which I now have to go out and buy because hey Ill be honest, I was starting to forget what they look like. Had to vent, holy shit. never, ever again.
welp cya.

Raugh · #2 (**permalink**) 11-13-2009, 04:05 AM

Backup and Reformat should of been step one when you saw 88 startup programs.

Live and learn.

Hytek · #3 (**permalink**) 11-13-2009, 05:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Raugh

Backup and Reformat should of been step one when you saw 88 startup programs.

Live and learn.

/This

How about the girl gets a new system too?

ziggeh · #4 (**permalink**) 11-13-2009, 10:54 AM

Yes, normally I would just go ahead and wipe the damn thing but they specifically requested that I try and keep their current installation because they are computer illiterate and it took them :years: to get their settings the way they like them (which by the way is completely fucked, lol). What can I say... I tried.