As many of you know, I have been using a 10 year old computer with approx. 500 MB of RAM, a 598 Mhrtz Pentium III processor, and a 64 MB video card to play TRON 2.0, post here, etc.
I recieved some advice from Qix, and learned that it is likely that over the course of 10 years, this computer's hard drive has likely lost it's magnetism and therefore causing the computer to be unable to start up. If you wish to read about the life of a 10 year old computer, read on:
In the Fall of 1998, we got the Toy Story 2 Action Game for PC's. All we had was a Windows 95 computer, which I still have to this very day. To solve the problem, we purchased a brand new, state of the art Windows 98 HP brand computer with DVD functionality and a huge monitor that you plugged the speakers into. Eventually, so that Lego Racers 2 would work on the computer, we purchased a state-of-the-art N-Videa 64-bit graphics card. But, the computer started it's downfall sometime in 2004. Someone put a magnet on the monitor, so we got a new one really cheap. It was smaller, and we had to buy new speakers. Eventually, in 2005, the DVD drive wouldn't open anymore. Thankfully, there were no DVDs in it. By 2006, we had to replace our speakers again (don't ask), and our computer came down with a nasty virus. We finally upgraded to Windows XP, which the system handled pretty well, for a while. Still running on the same hardware since 1998, this computer worked surprisingly well with Windows XP. All the Spyware was gone. All the adware simply went away. I loved the reformat. Some of my more graphically advanced games, like Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 and Sim City 4, worked great for a while. Eventually, though, after the exhaust fan broke, the two USB ports on the keyboard gave out completely, so I had to resort to the two USB ports on the back of the computer. One of them eventually gave out, and I had to use the sometimes-working keyboard ports, until they gave out completely. I finally got a 5 port USB hub in 2007. In 2008, I finally realized how crappy this computer really was. I began telling all my geek freinds the system specs. They almost had heart attacks hearing this, and I couldn't tell if it was from fear or laughter. I finally realized that my computer was incapable of anything anymore when Internet Explorer started taking about 2 minutes to start up, and when I found out that my computer didn't meet the system requirements for Portal, Battlefield 2, and DEFCON. I had the last straw. Stress started to build up, but I could relieve it easily by playing TRON 2.0, which was the most technologically advanced working program on the machine.
But then, after I played a new player in TRON 2.0 and assisted him in installing cutom maps and beat him at DA, I said my goodnights and gg's and put the computer into sleep mode.
Little did I know that that was going to be that computer's last standby, last post on Tron-Sector/LDSO, and last game of TRON 2.0.
Promptly after putting it into standby at about 1:30 AM on July 29, 2008, I remembered that I needed to get some files onto my SD card. I moved the mouse to take it out of standby, and it acted like it was starting up.
"DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT BOOT DISK AND PRESS ENTER"
It was the most terrifying thing I saw since the CMOS battery died on my Windows 3.1 computer.
I don't think there's really anything anyone can really do to help right now. I might be taking a trip to the computer store tommorow.
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