Bah

[mitchy]

Compy died. A friend opened it up to put in some more memory and the motherboard reacted by falling over with a sound roughly like "Acccck". Luckily said friend has spare compy which I'm currently using and which has my hard drive installed so I'm not bereft and PC-less. *petses the friend*

Went up to PC World, found a perfect replacement ...and it's out of stock. Gits. Gotta wait until maybe Wednesday. Bah. *sulks*

Also now need to sell or try and get the money back for the new hard drive/2 gig of RAM I bought to upgrade the Ex-PC. Should be able to get the money back on the RAM, still have the receipt for that, and it's still sealed into its packs so hopefully that won't be a problem.

Have a splitting headache, partly due to peering at spreadsheets all day, partly due to wacky sleep patterns yesterday and possibly due to lack of food. The latter two are easily cured, fortunately.

And I still have shiny Leverage DVDs to watch, so all is not completely made of suck :)

Comments

[jenni411.livejournal.com]

Eek! *uploads tea, aspirin, and hammer for motherboard*

[mitchy.livejournal.com]

Bless you! *wavies to you in Germany*

[silenttex.livejournal.com]

Another option would be to buy a new motherboard and processor that will accept the new RAM and Hard drive. (I don't know what your existing processor is, so you may or may not be able to find a MBoard that will fit it) How much cheaper that would be than a new PC I don't know. It may not be worth it.

[mitchy.livejournal.com]

It's not worth it. I only paid about £450 for the PoS PC and the new drive and RAM cost a third of that. Thinking I'd be throwing good money after bad.

Instead, I've bought this:-

http://tinyurl.com/mhazke

*beams like a happy mousey*

Isn't it shiny? :)

[(Anonymous)]

Well, a new MB, processor, RAM and HDD *is* a new PC, you'd just be keeping the case. On the other hand, that's a very good spec, and not a bad price. I'm on my 2nd Packard Bell laptop, and haven't had any complaints so far. 1st one is about 7 years old now, and just a bit underpowered, but runs Ubuntu nicely and is fine for web browsing.
One thing I discovered is the free Windows 7 upgrade isn't supported by Packard Bell - due to EU regulations the European version requires a clean install of Win7, not an upgrade. Packard Bell support the upgrade but not a clean install.

[oucellogal.livejournal.com]

Awwww, nuts. Sorry about your computer. My hair dryer did a similar thing over the weekend. "Accck" noise and everything.

[mitchy.livejournal.com]

Nothing more depressing that the sound of a dead electical device :P

[gayeld.livejournal.com]

*observing a moment of silence* I'm very sorry to hear about your loss. You should crack open a pint of chocolate ice cream and let Timothy Hutton console you.

[mitchy.livejournal.com]

An excellent plan and one that will be enacted just as soon as my techie guru figures out why I can't watch DVDs nor hear anything on the compy :P

On the plus side, new compy arrives Thursday :D

[gayeld.livejournal.com]

OMG, you can't even watch DVD? You poor thing, your life is a living hell. You better take two pints.