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Cracked it! I had already tried FIXBOOT, FIXMBR, and so on. Also tried (on a Google-sourced hint) running it on cable select (just because Compaq are stupid like that) and a couple of other things. Then today, prompted by Mubs' post, I tried repartitioning and reformatting it on the Compaq...

My brain hurtz

OK guys, some of you probably know all about this one already, so I won't recite chapter and verse, just hit the high points. (More details available if required though.) I have a Compaq in for upgrade - a half decent one, actually (if that's possible): P4-1800, 384MB of SDRAM, tower case. One...

I feel sick. Have you seen my elephant anywhere?

But that's my name! What colour next?

What did you say her name was again?

Yuck! Tastes terrible! I better wash them down with something. I don't supose there is any of that port left?

I don't think there are any orange ones. Would the blue ones do?

What colour pills should I start with?

Hey look! There's that other one! She's been posting on Storage Forum again!

Smoking marajuana and popping pills? Nope. Er.... do you think it would help? How many should I take?

Look, I haven't been drinking, OK?

Not a drop.

Nothing.

What? What did you say? Look, Mr Fungus Nostrils, I know you are only a subsimian who has major trouble figuring out how to walk and fart at the same time, and an inconsiderate old bastard most of the time, but I'm sitting here having a major existential crisis, and all you can say is "stupid...

Busy? You're busy? Huh! (Stupid human.) And don't call me "stupid ape" anymore. I'm sick of it.

Damn it, I'm not going to have an imaginary ape following me around making posts on Storage Forum using my name! I won't stand for it! Unless ... er ... I mean .... what if she is the real one? What happens to me? Do I just dissappear in a puff of smoke or something? Do you know imaginary...

Wait a minute, wait a minute. Which one of us is the real one? Me? Or her?

So who am I?

Look, I'm just trying to get this straight. Tea is the charming and highly intelligent little ape who posts on Storage Forum all the time, right?

I'll be fine in a minute.

Of course I'm alright. Everything is just fine. I'm just complaining that I haven't seen Tea on Storage Forum for ..... .... err.... Can you wait a minute please? Just while I work out .... ... er .... OK, I seem to be a little disoriented just at the moment.

Yeah! Where's Tea? What the hell is her excuse? Huh? Tell me that.

Huh? Don't you know anything? "Tasoe" is Eric for "to see". Bahhh .... Don't know whgat the wolrds' cominng tO. Adults these days..... can't even read simple Ericish.

So if it goes wrong .... Tannin, it's all your fault!

I'm not actually sure, Buck. But I think it might be because the blue ones clashed with the handbag.

It's a punishment visited on you by a just god. You deserve it. (Nobody uses cable select.) (Well, OK, Compaq uses cable select - sort of speaks for itself, doesn't it.)

Well known fact of life.

Make it green! Seriously, that glaring white/near-white background colour is hard on my eyes. Not too fussed about the rest of the list - some things would be nice, some things not-so-nice, but a background colour that doesn't give me a headache is number #1 with a bullet. Oh, and don't reduce...

Unghh ... Did somebody teach this guy to even read yet? No, no, don't tell me, let me guess. He's a character from the Archie Bunker Show, right?

Errr .... which 24? Hmmmmm ...... Interesting. Wow! I had no idea you felt about M- ... er ... that person in that particular way. May I ask why? No - don't answer, I don't think I want to know. And ... er ... Number 17 - how can you include Number 17 when that other one (you know...

Tannin!

But I liked the green.

But it's not green!

Ha! And you think you have troubles?

teh awesome!

I didn't understand any of that. Well, not the techo terms anyway, but I could read beteen the lines enough to get the flavour, and more-or-less follow the story. We are talking seriously big waves in that part of the world, right? Famous for it, yes? PS: I like your new sig...

Woof woof!

"polishes UP the ..." - didn't mean to write UP, just an ordinary "up". When are they going to invent a thought-controlled caps-lock key?

Thanks Coug! I sort of had a picture a bit like that, but also was picturing the dog woof-woofing around excitedly (with everybody pointing at him) and running across the polished wooden flooring of the lanes, scratching it up something chronic (heartbreak for the caretaker!) and sliding...

It was the funniest part. I dunno why, but that was the bit where I had to cross my legs before I had a little accident.

Yup. When I read that I had to cross my legs, I was laughing so hard. Umm, what's a dog in a bowling alley?

If you cant' type, go to bedd, tAnnin

(maintaining a dignified silence on this topic)

Daylight savingz time, natch.

It'z Saturday. :o But thankz anyway. :wink:

Hey, no fair! You're not allowed to have more than me!

Any chance you could join our Folding @ Home team, Eguy? I'm sure you'd get along just great with some of the other new contributors to the Folding team :o

Exactly! People bring in their POS Compaq/HP/Dell/Packard Bell vomit boxes expecting you to fix them, and you spend twice as long as you ought to because they are so small and tight and crappy and difficult to work on, and because everything taaaaaakes soooooooo loooooong because they perform...

(Which will make me 3001 pozts old and Tannin a mere 2999. (Most of them being my stolen ideas in the firzt place anyway.) ... not fair .....