NOOO!

My sister just called; her Windows PC's mouse is worn out, so she took the mouse of her old PC, and wanted to hook it up to her system instead of her broken mouse. Since the broken mouse is a PS/2 mouse, and her old one a serial one, I told her to replace the mouse, and to reboot the box; that should make her Windows 98 detect the mouse again.

Less than five minutes later, she called again: something had gone wrong during her reboot, and she was now stuck in "Safe Mode". I told her to reboot again, and to see what would happen. Well, get this: Windows had lost every configuration it had regarding her hardware, and it suddenly started to discover "new" hardware such as her PCI bus, her floppy drive, and her motherboard. I'll have to go over to her apartment somewhere this week, and fix up everything.

Someone kill me. Please.