Turns out the power supply chose that moment to go belly up. Swapped by the
hardware upgrade guy this morning for free. So at this point I *don't*
think it was MicroSatan. Yet. I'll try loading XP in a moment. =8^O
I'm having lunch now.
At 11:15 AM 2/3/2005, you wrote:
>you should have stuck with your plan of eating dinner...
>
>
> > No, panic kicked in about 15 minutes. :^(
> >
> > At 10:01 AM 2/3/2005, you wrote:
> >>"...and the message of 90 minutes to load."
> >>
> >>Did you wait the full 90 minutes before you panicked?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> > How significant? And why no power up.
> >> >
> >> > At 07:32 AM 2/3/2005, martym@martinator.com wrote:
> >> >
> >> >>When installing XP for the first time, the screens goes black for a
> >> >>significant length of time.
> >> >>
> >> >>This is normal.
> >> >>
> >> >>No progress meter, no blue screen, no nothing. You just have to be
> >> >> patient.
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