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| Goodbye BIOS |
| Written by Mark Jameson |
| Thursday, 12 March 2009 03:51 |
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I like computers. I hate computers. They make life easier, they make life complicated. But today – after eight hours of troubleshooting – I decided enough is enough. My desktop PC has to go. Hello Ebay. Goodbye BIOS. BIOS stands for Basic Input Output System. (bios means life – old Greek word – found in biology, biography etc.). It’s goodbye BIOS because this is where it started. Wait. Let me start at the beginning. I’m reviving my old desktop. Have a new one but want to use the old one as well. Just so much to do, need two. So here I am doing some PC admin stasks. Cleaning up the harddrive and stuff. When suddenly boom bash, everything’s gone. Thank god there’s always life – I mean BIOS (god is dead; long live technology). But the BIOS won’t let me reinstall the OS. Hey, don’t complain about the techspeak ok! Where was I. Oh here. OS. So BIOS won’t recognise USB. No, hdd is trashed. As is CDROM drive. Go ahead and flash your BIOS. Only it still won’t recognise USB. To cut a long story short: I will part with my beloved old PC. Have to move on. Such is BIOS – I mean such is life. I like computers. I hate computers. They make life easier, they make life complicated. But today – after eight hours of troubleshooting – I decided enough is enough. My desktop PC has to go. Hello Ebay. Goodbye BIOS. BIOS stands for Basic Input Output System. (bios means life – old Greek word – found in biology, biography etc.). It’s goodbye BIOS because this is where it started. Wait. Let me start at the beginning. I’m reviving my old desktop. Have a new one but want to use the old one as well. Just so much to do, need two. So here I am doing some PC admin stasks. Cleaning up the harddrive and stuff. When suddenly boom bash, everything’s gone. Thank god there’s always life – I mean BIOS (god is dead; long live technology). But the BIOS won’t let me reinstall the OS. Hey, don’t complain about the techspeak ok! Where was I. Oh here. OS. So BIOS won’t recognise USB. No, hdd is trashed. As is CDROM drive. Go ahead and flash your BIOS. Only it still won’t recognise USB. To cut a long story short: I will part with my beloved old PC. Have to move on. Such is BIOS – I mean such is life. |
| 5 degrees and counting |
| Written by Mark Jameson |
| Friday, 06 March 2009 17:41 |
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“If it rains, you get wet.” This quote is from “Heat”, a Michael Mann picture from the nineties. It’s one of my favourites. Especially since I forgot my umbrella today. And there are other quotes that come to mind in this weather: “Hamburg has two type of weather: bad weather, and rainy weather!” I am all wet and miserable as I think hard about who may have said that. “If it rains, you get wet.” This quote is from “Heat”, a Michael Mann picture from the nineties. It’s one of my favourites. Especially since I forgot my umbrella today. And there are other quotes that come to mind in this weather: “Hamburg has two type of weather: bad weather, and rainy weather!” I am all wet and miserable as I think hard about who may have said that. |
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