[dundee] OT, embarassment

[Rob Sharp]

Ha!

Ran into the same chicken-egg scenario when I fixed a friends computer.
The key here is to get into a command prompt and type:

shutdown -a

This cancels the shutdown and allows you to download the patch... a quick
google led to me to this online guide:

http://hardware-hq.com/blaster.php

Good luck!

Rob.




On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 22:30:18 +0100, "Colin Brough"
<Colin.Brough at blueyonder.co.uk> said:
> I dual boot Mandrake 9.0 and Win XP - very rarely into Win XP. I am on
> blueyodner broadband. Since I didn't need to worry when MSBlaster hit
> (always running Mandrake), I didn't bother to check how to protect
> myself. Happened to boot into Windows, computer went down with some
> error that appears Blaster related. Ooops!! Whenever I've gone back
> over to Windows, its crashed within a minute or two - not really
> enough time to explore settings or anything.
> 
> I have next to no software on there - just a vanilla XP install, and
> an old copy of Word (6.0, I think!).
> 
> Can any kind soul give me any pointers to fixing it? Can I download
> any patch from MS via Linux and copy it over to the Win partition?
> 
> (Hangs head in shame, and shuffles off in embarrassment...)
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Colin
> 
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> Colin Brough                             Colin.Brough at blueyonder.co.uk
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