Today my main desktop PC died. I was using it this morning and all of a sudden it just stopped. I smelled the un mistakable oder of cooking parts and I knew that something has failed in there. Upon examination I realized that the power supply kicked the bucket. No problem, I have two cases that are not being used so I swapped one out at lunch. I powered it up and started to finish up what I had started in the morning and left to go back to the office. I came home and found that the PC was, for lack of a better word, stuck. It was like it was trying to boot but just could not do it. Power was on, lights were on, but no video and the DVD would blink every once in a while. I swapped the power supply out a second time and tried to boot the system but all I got was more burning part smell. So I’m very annoyed by all of this, I can’t scan my slides, edit video, or do anything that requires some computing oomph. My laptop is a 1 GHz Celeron with XP on it so even typing causes the system to drag. Anyone want to make a donation so I can get some new hardware?
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