Cait's Ramblings

Ok.

so ive spent literally all day.

Since 11:30..

trying to fix this effing laptop.

XD
cuz it's broke.

Here I'll tell you what happened.


It was having a bunch of memory errors and was generally just clogged up, so I reformatted it, and partitioned it off so theres a 10GB section and a 30GB section.. so I can install Windows on the 10GB section and put my crap on the 30GB section, and just reformat the 10GB section as needed in the future..

Well, I reformatted and installed Windows XP and everything SEEMED okay.. I installed drivers and could get onto the net fine and everything.. I formatted the 30GB partition to NTFS inside of windows, as it prompted me to upon clicking F drive.. Everything still okay


...It ended up being 3am, so I shut it off and went to bed.

Got up this morning, turned it on.. and i get black screen of doom.. It said something about "did you install new hardware recently?" and whatever.. I tried last good config, safe mode, normal, everything.. I loaded the XP loading screen, flashed a blue screen then restarted.

Couldnt get anything to work, so I popped XP disk in again and it showed the 10GB section as being empty..... and in an unknown format... (everything on the 30GB parition was still there and fine)

So apparently my comp deleted windows and formatted itself into an unknown format while I was sleeping!! XDDDDDDDDDD! its GOT A MIND OF ITS OWN!

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So i reinstall windows and format as NTFS... and it seemed okay again.. I started installing drivers and net was working and stuff, when all of a sudden everything started going SOOOO slow and Explorer took a REALLY long time to open, It would just sit at the wallpaper for a long time (Till i like pressed Ctrl+alt+del and messed with stuff) then the Search kept not responding and notepad kept not responding and nothing was working at all..

I updated Mcafee and did virus scan and it found nothing..

So i reformatted again.... this time not installing Mcafee.. but ZoneAlarm It's still acting funny.. it's not going as fast as it should.. Things stop responding more than they should.. and some other things just FREEZE and arent even listed as not responding, but still running!!

I did spyware scan with ZA and it found nothing also.


So i posted about this on pcguide and someguy said "Sounds like it is a hardware issue and nothing to do with XP. Either your ram or hard drive. I would run tests on both starting with the ram."


Well, I ran some RAM tests last night and it was fine.. The built in DELL RAM tests...

So im running "MemTest" right now.. so I can test that.. I really dont think that the RAM is a problem at all. i've never had any RAM problems.. ive never ran out of RAM or anything..


CPU usage, on the other hand.. ALWAYS skyrockets to 100%... Cuz I use programs that are high processor usage..


so i duno..


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OK and i was telling my dad about it, and he said the FUNNIEST THING EVER XDDDDDDD!!
He's like "well i heard... and i heard from your mom too, that when you reformat laptops.. that it doesnt empty the cache all the way.. So it's just some DLL file that got messed up, So.."

and at this point i stop him, because it's TOO EFFING FUNNY XDDDDDDD!!!

There's nothing wrong with any DLLs!!!
And NOONE cares about the cache!!! XXDD the cache is internet only XDDDDDDD!!!

When you reformat, EVERYTHING gets wiped, weither it likes it or not!!!!!! XDD so there IS no cache.. there ARE no DLLS! (untill you install XP)

so i was just lmaoing and dad was like ">:(" but its just soooooo funny when people try to talk about computers and they dont actually know anything, Omg, lol!


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Another thing is... well its not funny, but it pissed me off a bit..

Ok our neighbors are Danielle, Jerrie, and Doug. They all live in the same house.. Jerrie and Doug used to be dating a little bit, but Doug used her and makes her pay for the bills and do paperwork for his business and crap, so Jerrie is sick of it.. and She's looking for a new house to move in to.. WELL...

Danielle calls cory this morning with a pouty face saying "Cory you have to come down here, I need to talk to you"

so he went down there.. then came back... WELL It turns out that Doug met some lady at the school and told her she could have Danielle's rabbit, ARBA.

So the lady came by to pick ARBA up today... but they wouldnt let her have it, so she apparnetly left. (doug wasnt home) So Danielle took ARBA down to Shauna's (our other neighbor)'s house.. so that the lady couldnt steal it..

ANd its just ABSO-FORKING-LUTELY irresponsible, mean, and not to mention ILLEGAL to give Danielle's rabbit away..

Jerrie is the one who got it for Doug.. Jerrie is the one who payed for him and the cage.. And Doug is trying to give ARBA and the cage away to some lady..

Well i think thats just. plain retarded. He should be SHOT. It is NOT his to give away.. and in the event the lady did take it, I'm sure Jerrie could sue Doug for stealing her property or something.. That's just ridiculous...

But anyway, Danielle was wanting us to hold on to ARBA for her.. and dad didnt want Doug to be MAD, so hes like "Jerrie and Doug need to sort this out"

so omg,

THis is why i hate humans XD!!

but yeah, Im pretty pissed that someone would go that low.


Im also pretty pissed that my laptop is 1/2 dead XD but theres nothing i can do about that for now. :P

But yeah so for awhile i wont be on or whatever~~ cuz im gunna need to reformat like 50 times and i dont HAVE msn downloaded or anything so.. :P