Friday 13th fun

[Suicide Junkie]

I've never given F13's a second thought, but today was insane!

For the past few weeks it has been quiet, with a whole lotta sittin going on.

But today, the new computers downstairs started acting up. As the guy with a CS background, I went to try and fix it.

"Hard disk fail" it says. So, I pick up the machine and put it on the desk nearby. I've peeled of the pLastic face, then decide to check a BIOS setting. The monitor takes so long to stabilize a picture, that before I can see what's going on, windows has booted up.
Now, nothing is wrong. So, I open it up and try the cables to make sure nothing is loose, then put it back where it was and leave.
No sooner had I gone up the stairs than I got a call from the office, the computer died again... same problem.
So, I fiddled around with it and as soon as I put it on the desk, it worked.
I left it on top of the desk, and it worked the rest of the day.
Ten phonecalls before 8:30, a stack of laptops with dead batteries, printer queues going half-way across the university campus, random error Messages caused by bad ini settings, ini files resetting themselves to bad settings after you fix them, windows consistently crashing on bootup for only two hours, then working without a fix.

My brain hurts.