Happy New Bork!

My home computer is borked.
I've been using that word a lot lately, "borked". That's because a lot of stuff has been borked.

I came home from work last night all happy, for several reasons:
1) I had actually worked that day eventhough the office is officially closed this week.
2) I was going to work the next day too, eventhough I'm not scheduled to.
3) Netflix had just sent me "Death Race". Cars with guns + Jason Statham = fun!
4) Lego had sent me the new Brickmaster set, a mini Venator-class Republic Cruiser.
I turned on my computer and the happy went away.
Windows refused to launch.
I called friends to get some help: coyoteseven (I left a message), and gizmoelf who picked up.
He recommended I open up the computer, clean the dust out and check all connections. So I hung up and did that.
I plugged the computer back in and turned it on.
No change, same exact thing. Blargh...
I launched in safe mode and Coyote 7 called back. He's the one who had given me the mobo and CPU for this beast.
I poked around the computer an got online to get my e-mail and some needed info. Then Coyote recommended I uninstall
AVG since it was the thing that had given me issues a few days ago, and I had installed a brand new version.
So I did that and rebooted the machine.
And it worked!
Windows came up as nice as you please and everything seemed fine.
Coyote and I put it down to a borked AVG install, so I put AVG back on. Then I rerebooted the machine.
It came up normally, so we figured that was that.
By that time, it was 10:30pm and I had yet to have dinner, so I went in the kitchen and got busy.
When I came back to the computer, dinner plate in hand, I found the machine locked up.
Mouse was unresponsive, screen was frozen, and drive A (the floppy drive) was trying to access a non-existent disk.
I turned off the machine, waited a bit, then turned it back on. Windows didn't launch.
I rebooted the machine and selected safe mode. It didn't launch.
It got as far as loading something called "giveio.sys" (I think) and it stopped and just sat there, doing nothing.
And this is what it does every time now.

Tomorrow, I'm taking the computer to Coyote's and we're gonna poke around the thing to figure out what's up.
And hopefully get the fookin' thing working again.
I really really REALLY don't need this!
I have stuff to put on eBay! E-mails to read and send! Job-hunting to do! Apartment hunting to do!
I don't have enough money to get by and sure as hell don't have money for a new computer!
Though I'm thinking that if I do my taxes as soon as possible, I can use some of the refund to buy a new case,
mobo and CPU and build a new machine with some of the bits of the old one. But that's at least a month away.
In the meantime, guess I have to use the computer at work.
But all my data is on my machine.
Argh.

2008: The Final Insult!

See you next year!

Well, I'm going home now.
I won't have Internet access again until I come back to work on Friday.
Here's hoping Coyote and I can coax my computer back to working order tomorrow!
In the meantime, y'all have a Happy New Year!
It's gotta be better than this one.

Bonne année! Bonne santé! Et toutes sortes de félicitées!

Urrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr...

So, I'm home, and, urrrrrrrrr, I turned on my computer just for the heck of it.
And selected "Launch Windows as normal"...
And it worked...
And my computer seems to be working...

..........

I DON'T UNDERSTAND ANYTHING ANYMORE!!!!!

I'm having AVG scan the computer for viruses, just in case.
Beyond that, I'm not sure what else to do.
Defrag the C drive maybe?
And I'm on FurryMuck, waiting for coyoteseven to pop up so we can strategize about this latest development.

I'M SO CONFUSED!!!