magic fingers.
It appears that after 20 years, I've finally lost it. The magic fingers that makes electronics work at a touch.
It all started 2 days ago when I stupidly decided to try something as simple as renaming a file on my x-box. A simple action it may be but the repercussions are titanic. My X-Box is now rendered useless. Since it's more than a year old, the warranty's already non-existent. I finally decided to go ahead and get myself some Torx screw drivers and pry my way inside the forbidden machine.
I spent an entire afternoon trying every possible solution available and none of it works. For some reason, I backed up my C: but forgot to do the same for the eeprom.bin file located at the same place. Fuck. It would have made everything so much simpler!!
I feel as if I lost a part of me. I had the uncanny ability to make electronical stuff work, I don't have to know what I'm doing, all I had to do is touch, remove a part and replace it at the same location and more often than not, the thing works again. Not this time. I remember a period of time when I was still using my crappy 266 and the thing just freezes at start up before showing anything. I did what I could, open and touch, and it will work again. When my friend encountered the same problem, I told him my solution and he said it's stupid. True enough, there's no theory behind it and no part of it suggests intellect in any way but somehow, it works. My very satisfied friend told me that stupid as my solution sounds, it works.
But now it's gone, my fucking X-Box will not start. It would have been so much easier if I'd bothered to back up more files! DAMNIT! Then there's Microsoft, what the fuck is wrong with them? It's my X-Box once I bought it, why the fuck is it you set a password on MY harddisk which password is stored in a fucking CHIP that couldn't be read unless the harddisk is ACCESSED!!!
Fuck!
It all started 2 days ago when I stupidly decided to try something as simple as renaming a file on my x-box. A simple action it may be but the repercussions are titanic. My X-Box is now rendered useless. Since it's more than a year old, the warranty's already non-existent. I finally decided to go ahead and get myself some Torx screw drivers and pry my way inside the forbidden machine.
I spent an entire afternoon trying every possible solution available and none of it works. For some reason, I backed up my C: but forgot to do the same for the eeprom.bin file located at the same place. Fuck. It would have made everything so much simpler!!
I feel as if I lost a part of me. I had the uncanny ability to make electronical stuff work, I don't have to know what I'm doing, all I had to do is touch, remove a part and replace it at the same location and more often than not, the thing works again. Not this time. I remember a period of time when I was still using my crappy 266 and the thing just freezes at start up before showing anything. I did what I could, open and touch, and it will work again. When my friend encountered the same problem, I told him my solution and he said it's stupid. True enough, there's no theory behind it and no part of it suggests intellect in any way but somehow, it works. My very satisfied friend told me that stupid as my solution sounds, it works.
But now it's gone, my fucking X-Box will not start. It would have been so much easier if I'd bothered to back up more files! DAMNIT! Then there's Microsoft, what the fuck is wrong with them? It's my X-Box once I bought it, why the fuck is it you set a password on MY harddisk which password is stored in a fucking CHIP that couldn't be read unless the harddisk is ACCESSED!!!
Fuck!
BY Neo :: 8:59 PM
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