I swear this is the truth. Tonight, I was about to pull the hard drive, disc drives and the network card for later use, leaving the chassis for recycling. (Don’t throw these away; computers are full of toxic metals.) The RAM was already out — I thought I had fried it with static or something — but my intuition told me to put it back in and give it one more try. I also pressed in place every connector I could get my hands on. But I wasn’t hopeful and didn’t even plug the monitor in.
As it was booting up — it would power up each time — it beeped. One little beep, suggesting the BIOS, which hadn’t been loading, loaded. I scrambled to get the monitor plugged in, to find the Kubuntu login screen. Shut it down, add ethernet and the new keyboard and mouse, and rebooted.
Voila! My computer is back. Hurrah! But boy the Mac Mini was little, cute and quiet.
My aunt really needs computer, so we’re getting her a MAC mini. They’re great.
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Unlike divine substance, which lasts forever after resurrection, I wouldn’t trust 100% reliability in your computer from now on. That BIOS is bad or mad.
Indeed, I backed up the newest files and won’t return the Mac Mini until the last minute, and then will keep my eyes open for a more suitable machine in the sales flyers. But I think the error might have been on my part — perhaps I loosened a connection when I tried to swap out the RAM initially and it took that last go-over to get whatever connection it was back into place. At least that’s my theory.
I know it’s a tremendous relief to have your computer back!
What fresh hell is this? I go away for three days to frolic with the nephews and you lose your computer, too?
OH MY GOD, WAS I CONTAGIOUS??