Crisis averted!

I thought I had done something terribad to the computer or something...it refused to load the BIOS more than 50%. It would just sit there on the Dell splash screen and stared at me. Taunting me. I hated it with everything I am. It knew. I could hear it laughing, defying my every button press. I was stabbing it with daggers thrust from my eyes. I even shook it. It never wavered.

Until I unplugged the USB cord still running to my phone that was in USB storage mode because I had just uploaded that video.
Then it booted.