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[glenatron]

Today is not going according to plan. I switched my computer on, it stopped almost immediately with an error message about the A drive.

Dead bios. Proper dead. Changed the battery, changed the bios chip, nothing. Dead motherboard.

The problem being that nobody makes Socket 754 motherboards any more and if they did there would be no point spending almost exactly the same amount of money to get something that was average three years ago than getting something better now. At which point I need to get a new processor and probably a new graphics card as mine is old and AGP.

Works out expensive and annoying.

Still, hopefully my hard drives have endured and at least, unlike last time this happened, I don't have an OEM copy of Windows so I should be able to redo my activation stuff...

Comments

[sleepsy-mouse.livejournal.com]

Hmmm....I suspect there has been a hi-jacking of my pc....

[glenatron.livejournal.com]

Take this browser to Paris!

[penella22.livejournal.com]

lol, sounds like an unscheduled vacation to me. surely you can't do WORK on a DIFFERENT computer. OTHER computers are clearly only qualified for surfing around various lj sites, of course.

have fun picking out new insanely cool / expensive technology.

[glenatron.livejournal.com]

If only it was insanely cool, rather than just expensive, but because I need it now I can only have whatever people have in stock and nobody stocks CPUs much or if they do they are rubbish. And then I needed new memory. And now I need a new CD drive because I don't have one ( that is to say I do but I don't have enough stops on my IDE cable and modern computers expect hard drives to be on SATA not on IDE but my hard drives are old and they don't roll that way. Consequently I have no way to install any drivers which come on a CD...

[glenatron.livejournal.com]

... unless I can copy the LAN driver onto a USB key, install that then share the CD drive on this machine... a short term fix, but a fix nonetheless...

[penella22.livejournal.com]

don't you hate that???

for similar logistical reasons, we cannot get our computer to register all 400 gigs of hard drive space that do actually exist without buying an external hard drive first...long story but it basically comes down to a lack of compatible ins and outs...gar!