Link: My computer is broken! Help!

Dell: Format the hard drive and reinstall windows! NOW!

...*Click*...

Link: I just called you, and you didn't even listen to the problem!

Dell: What is the problem?

Link: Well, my clock is going slow and the sound doesn't work anymore...is there something wrong with my sound card?

Dell: Ok get a new sound card then! Goodbye!

Link: But wai...*Click*...

Link: I just called and you didn't listen!

Dell: I didn't?

Link: NO! I was trying to say that my computer is under warranty and you should send me a new sound card free of charge.

Dell: What sound card do you have?

Link: A Creative Sound Blaster Live Value

Dell: Ok we'll send it right away by Purolator...It should be there tomorrow morning before 9AM. Goodbye.

Link: But don't you need my addr...*click*...

Link: I am getting very mad now! You need my address to send me something, don't you?

Dell: Oh yes...give it to me now

Link: 27 Maple Street, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Link: Postal code: T2-Mary 3H2

Dell: We'll send it right away...*click*

.....Two Weeks Later.....

DING DONG!

Purolator: Sign here please

Link: Ok thank you

.....Link opens package.....

Link: @#%$!!!!!! WHAT IS THIS!!!!!!!!!!???????

Link: A booklet entitled "How to format your computer and reinstall Windows in 3 easy steps! (c) 1995 Dell Canada"!!!????

Dell: Isn't that what you asked for?

Link: NO!!!!!!!! I WANTED A SOUND CARD! I AM LOSING MONEY OFF OF THIS! CAN'T YOU JUST SEND SOMEONE HERE TO FIX IT!!!????

Dell: No we don't do that anymore. Our policy has changed because of violence in customers.

Link: ...*click*...

Link: I'll have to fix it myself...now what did that JCF person say? Msconfig?

Link ***Start: Run: msconfig***

Computer: "This program cannot be run do to restrictions in effect on this computer. Contact your administrator if you think this is in error"

Link: No problem...***Thinks back to getting around policies in school***

Link ***Start: Run: Regedit***

Link ***HKEY_CURRENT_USER: Software: Windows: C*****n: P*****s: E*****r***

Computer: default="Policies are not meant to be changed, you hacker! --Dell"

Link: I HAVE HAD ENOUGH OF THIS!

Link: Dell, I'm throwing my computer away because of you. Now are you happy?

Dell: Yes. Have a nice day =)



Anyways, I think you have a problem with your clock, or a memory leak. I think this happened to me once after running a program that crashed. I was supposed to be practicing piano but I was staring at the computer clock, and then I realized I had been staring for 3 minutes and it hadn't changed! I thought that the computer must have been frozen, but I moved the mouse and it was fine. I then restarted the computer and it was fixed. So try figuring out when this starts happening (if you are running the same program, etc...)