Thus Spake Russ

Posted By Russ Emerson on January 9, 2008 at 1:03 pm

The old PC is still in the shop; due to the holidays, there was apparently a backlog of work for the diagnosticians.
I’m not too concerned. I’ve already decided to think of the box as dead-dead-dead, and have begun planning for a replacement. If anything can be salvaged from the old PC, well, that’s gravy. But it is an older architecture — AGP rather than PCI type — so there won’t be much that can be reused, apart from the hard drive and the memory (I think.)
Still, we’re talking a minimum of three or four more business days — minimum.

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Posted By Russ Emerson on January 5, 2008 at 8:57 pm

My PC went belly up this evening. It powers up, but never gets to the BIOS, never boots up. I suspect the motherboard is toast, but geek that I am, I’m a network geek, not a PC geek, so that’s only a guess.
I guess maybe I should call the Geek Squad. I wonder how long (and how much cash) it’ll take to get the PC back on its feet.
Until then, no mail, no casual browsing. Good thing I have my employer-issued laptop here – it’s the World’s Slowest Laptop, but at least it works enough to let me post this.

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