My desktop went 6 feet under over the weekend. It wasn’t entirely unexpected as I had been encountering freezes over the last couple weeks, but the chipset (nForce 4) finally bit the big one Saturday. It also took out the video card and enough of the hard drive that I could not reinstall Windows on it. I don’t know if that also took out the monitor (ViewSonic VX922) as I’ve seen multiple reports that it wasn’t ViewSonic’s most-reliable, but that also bricked on me.
I’ve spent roughly the last 48 hours rebuilding the desktop (not at all fun with Windows Vista), and though I don’t have all the items I really wanted (partly because it was an emergency rebuild, partly because of budget concerns), the new desktop (Core 2 Duo E8500, Intel P35 Express chipset-my biggest compromise, 2 GB DDR2-800 RAM, 500 GB SATA drive) is just about done and almost to where I had the old desktop software-wise. I still need to get a real monitor (been using the HDTV; 1366×768 on a 26″ is UGLY) and a real video card (I HATE onboard video), but it’s alive. I even managed to rescue my catalog of “Dogfights” episodes (which I had to rescue from the laptop).
The biggest bad thing remaining is I’ve lost 2 years of e-mail. Oh well.
I had mine go down just before I went AWOL. I lucked out and found a place that had a rebuilt unit like mine that was able to get me up and rerunning in about 4 hours. Unfortunately, I’m pressing my luck as these dang Toshiba’s have had a horrible service record. I need to move to “the new generation” but I have to stay on XP.
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1920×1200 is so much nicer, especially with ATI’s just-off-the-top card.
Steve…do you still have the old hard drive? I may be able to get those emails.
I can probably salvage them as well, though I note I wasn’t able to salvage the “Dogfights” episodes from that drive.