Like a hammer falling without restraint, a decree of doom dropped upon my previously blissful life in the late hours of last night. Sleep did not come. The prospects of Acacia were dashed. In the midst of running Malware Bytes, the PC gave up the ghost. Prayers for a reversal by dawn were unansweredToshiba2010 booted up but no audio was available. After ignoring the situation through meetings, I tackled the laptop diagnosis.. We determined that not only had the audio drivers been corrupted to the point that Windows did not recognize there was any sound card (even if sound clips could be played, but that the network drivers were also missing components. A reformat was deemed necessary. Does Windows have a built-in three-year expiration or something? The hardware is as good as new but a bad OS renders it useless. Now the once robust testing flock is culled down to a single hen and mute stepchild. Needless to say, disease set in on the distress of the downward spiral. On such a day as this, the only fail proof solution is blissful sleep until the black moon wanes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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