Rolling Stones - Start Me Up

Rolling Stones - Start Me Up

The last thing I did last night before going to bed was turn off the music playing on the computer. I woke up this morning ready to listen to more music, and was greeted by the dreaded blue screen of death!

I have no idea what could have happened over night to cause this. But the scary part is a simple reset does nothing; it doesn't even boot into the bios screen. Nothing.

This is bad.

Luckily my hard drive (along with my music) was backed up to an external. I imagine tonight I'll unplug the computer from the TV, hook it up to a proper monitor and keyboard, and (hopefully) figure out what's going on. What's frustrating is that this is like the 3rd time this has happened; the first two were hardware issues (faulty hard drive and ram chip), but the fact that the computer isn't even booting this time really worries me.

Now I'm not one to go blaming Microsoft; I understand that every system has its faults. But the simple fact is ever since I switched over to Vista Media Center, its been a bad experience, and not much of a benefit in exchange for a lot of pain. I'm thinking about other options, maybe a Mac Mini coupled with a large hard drive. Anyone have any suggestions?

So anyway, while I sort out this whole mess, hopefully A Song A Day can keep going strong off my backup drive. Today's song is The Rolling Stones' Start Me Up, which was licensed by Microsoft over ten years ago to promote Windows 95. I wish my computer would do that right now.