This morning, I was alerted by some garbage Logitech auto-update software that I had a new update available for my keyboard. Now, I'm pretty sure I told it to never, ever bother me about updates, (because that's what I do for everything), but I decided: hey, what the heck, since it's already bothered me about it, I might as well...what's the worse it could do?
Right, well...installation complete, don't notice anything different...except wait, the "next" and "previous" buttons on my keyboard don't skip/go back 10 seconds on my music anymore like they used to if you hold them down for a moment, (instead of just pressing them normally, which causes them go to back/forward a track). I try restarting to see if that fixes it, but no dice, unfortunately. A new version that reduces functionality compared to an old version? Awesome. So I go find the previous version of the software and try to install it...it tells me I have a newer version, and therefore installation will be stopped. Allllrighty then, so I uninstall the current version...(which, of course, I discover later uninstalls my keyboard's profile and all my hotkeys, too. Neat.). Install that version, and it still does the same thing. I try restarting again...except I actually hit "sleep" by accident...but no big deal, right? WRONG.
At the point I hit sleep, I still had my headphones on, and as it's fully going into sleep mode or whatever, I hear a screech from my headphones that is definitely not normal. I tried powering my computer back up, but it appears to have fallen into a coma, as it simply won't, and the screech just keeps going on and on for like twenty seconds until I finally hit the power button on my power supply to make it bloody stop. Tentatively, I turn my power supply back on, and then hit the power button on my tower. I hear everything start to power on - alright, good! Except...nothing's actually happening on my monitor. Sigh. So I power off my computer, replug my DVI cable into the other port on my GPU and try starting it up again. Nope. Oh dear, this isn't looking good. I unplug every single thing except my power cable and my monitor's DVI cable and try booting it up again. Still not working. Finally, I unplug my RAM for no particularly good reason and try powering up again. Mysteriously, it actually works...but of course, I don't have any RAM, so I power it down again and reseat them. And again, magically, it works...but of course, because I unplugged my wireless keyboard, (or rather, its wireless dongle thingy), it won't work anymore when trying to tell Windows to recover my current session instead of starting up new, (no 30 second timer, unfortunately - I would've been fine either way). I grab my backup, wired keyboard and plug it in, but of course, it's still not recognizing it, so I reboot it. Windows finally boots back up with me being able to select what I want to do, the stupid keyboard thing still isn't working, so I go back another version, and now it's finally working liked it used to. Hurray.
There's two lessons to be learned here: never update anything ever, and...never put your computer into sleep mode, because it might slip into a coma and never wake up.
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