Blue Screen of Death!

[sherria]

I have a couple of personal computers (desktops) and a couple of work computers (laptops) so when my main desktop wouldn't properly boot up I annoyed but not completely lost.  I just bought it a little over a year ago and have had no problems with it, but I know that software can get wonky.  Knowing that, I really should back up my data more often

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Sainthood has been bestowed on you

[lynn_nicholas]

Yes, you. You have the patience of a saint. I would have killed someone about 1/3 of the way through that mega run-around. I have a sign on my desk: God grant me patience and I want it NOW.
You hit the target when you said "idiots...who can't think for themselves". That's the status quo these days. Everyone has guidelines to follow and a script to read, no one - I repeat - No One seems to be able to think a problem through. It just doesn't take much today to be above average !

Deja vu all over again (as Yogi Berra once said)

[jessibud]

This sounds exactly like my 2 battles with my phone/internet company (Bell Canada) this past September and the summer before that. The only read script. They do not think, they do not problem-solve (in any reasonable translation of that term). Incidentally, I recently (a week or 2 ago), went through the same bad-on-hold-music wait that you did with HP, as well, because my HP all-in-one printer died and I foolishly tried to call their tech support for assistance. But for the half-wits at Bell, the only thing that worked for me (twice) was to threaten to go to the media to have the issue resolved. For some reason, that seems to be the only thing that scares them into action. In the latter case (Sept/07), I actually DID write to the consumer reporter at the Toronto Star and she got the ball rolling that more or less brought closure to that rpoblem. I still intend to switch to a different internet server but I just haven't done it yet