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For the last few days I’ve been struggling to get my new computer to boot up. Then all of a sudden at six o’clock this morning, I woke up before with a new idea…and it ended up taking about five seconds to solve the problem. It’s so weird to me how much great thinking can happen while you’re asleep! I need to remember to do that in the future: When I’m stumped by something, I should think about it right before bed, and then my brain will keep working on it even while I’m unconscious.
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Aren’t you going to share with us your newly discovered insight on how to wake up a non-functioning computer in case the same thing happens to one of us papertowel.org readers?
Sleep-thinking can work, but I think it’s just a sub-class of removing oneself from the problem at hand. Other examples which have proven succesful for me are shower-thinking, commute-home-thinking, and people-watching-at-Disneyland-thinking.
More interesting to me than the solution you came to while sleeping is the answer to the following question: What prevented you from returning a new computer which failed to boot for days?
The computer didn’t come with an O/S, and I was transferring a drive image from another computer, so there was no guarantee that Windows 7 would boot. In the past, moving a Windows 7 drive image from another computer has worked fine because Windows 7 is designed to be mostly hardware-independent. However, in this case, I needed to reset the Windows drivers for the hard drive controller. For some reason Windows Startup Repair (which fixes most other incompatibilities) couldn’t do that automatically for me. Once I figured it out, I just had to download and run fix_7hdc.vbs, which took all of five seconds.
Well Not to be of topic…
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im not allison
im ally!!!:)
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