Somehow I managed to get my old Dell computer working. The one that died on me in December.
I decided to 'try again' to get the blasted thing working. So this morning I plugged it in and managed to get to the screen where I had the option to start it in Safe Mode. (In December, I couldn't even get to that screen.) To I selected "Safe Mode" and a couple minutes later a system check showed up on the bottom of the screen.
Then the power went out. (I forgot they were going to shut down the power this morning.) So five hours later I came back and eventually managed to get the thing running in safe mode. Then I went to do a System Restore, and the damn thing works.
It's slow as hell, but it works.
I guess the computer gods don't hate me after all.
