Well, isn't that just perfect...

[rolanni]

My desktop has stopped. Just stopped. I had opened my mail program, which downloaded the mail, reporting that some idiot wanted an acknowledgment that I had received hisorher email...then the whole machine just locked up and -- quit. I couldn't even control-alt-del out of it, I had to hit the off button.

Reported at length in case there's a fun new virus out there that's deployed with the pop-up of a return receipt box.


Anyhow, the machine won't come up, and every! single! word! that I had written today is gone, and I am...beyond sick.

Those of you expecting email from me -- it'll be an undetermined while. I have most of the book backed up to dropbox and have gotten it down to The Leewit. Not today's work of course; I'll have to totally rewrite that from the ground up.

*cries*

Comments

Suggestion

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I recently had my laptop (ancient IBM Thinkpad) die - not as a result of a popup, though. The recovery suggested by my techie is to disconnect the device from all power and remove the battery then
1) hold down the "power on" button for a minimum of 10 seconds
2) connect the power (but do not insert the battery) and try to boot up. If that works, shut down normally, re-insert the battery and power on again.

It actually worked for me - however I have a totally different kind of device... it's worth a try though.

Good luck!