DollsArtCats

Well, thanks to Fry's Electronics I now have a squeaky clean, partitioned C drive, my image files were saved, and my printer reinstalled more successfully than it did the first time. I also have a new Intuos tablet and Photoshop CS3 installed. I have found... most... of my passwords. I got a stern lecture about not running more than one antivirus at a time, and about cat hair in the tower; and I now have the Acer as my separate Tumblr surfing machine so I shouldn't be exposing this machine to as much junk as before. I still have Windows 7. What I do not have are my custom brushes, which I put on a disk a year ago, and have since misplaced, WinZip, my fancy fonts, Irfanview, Terragen, several fractal generators, 4 versions of Filter Forge, Poser, or Daz Studio. I sort of like it this way, but I really do need to load at least Poser back on there, if I can find the box.

So I tried to start my computer this morning, and after putting in my password I get this sort of Welcome: To The Abyss. My best suspect is the video card, but to be honest I have been abusing the hard drive with Daz Studio (which it hates) and running not one, not two, but three competing Firewall/antivirus packages, one of which I think managed to convince me to kill it's own .exe. It was a cheap Costco HP pavilion to begin with, and most of the "good" content was backed up on a pair or external hard drives. But it does mean a visit to Fry's to see if I can get it raised from the dead.