Das Boot

[Lemur]

O pity me, my friends, for I have descended into hardware hell. My boot problems are minor and gone, to be replaced by cascading hardware failures that make me weep and throw ashes upon my head.

I bought a new terabyte drive from NewEgg to give my gaming PC some breathing room. The drive is a bust, but I didn't know that until I had tried every combination of cables, settings and cursing for the better part of a day. Not how I wanted to spend my weekend.

Now my router went blammo, and everything in my house goes through the router. The 'puters, the Tivo, the phones, everything. I upgraded the firmware from 1.8 to 1.9, and now I appear to have an expensive brick. The only reason I can type this to you is that I have a neighbor who doesn't understand how to secure his wireless.

Pardon me while I limp and shudder and drip blood all over your nice carpet. I am in a poorly way. Wish me luck.

-edit-

Fixed the router. That was scary.

[Vladimir]

Now my router went blammo, and everything in my house goes through the router. The 'puters, the Tivo, the phones, everything. I upgraded the firmware from 1.8 to 1.9, and now I appear to have an expensive brick. The only reason I can type this to you is that I have a neighbor who doesn't understand how to secure his wireless.

Usually people don't realize the severity of that until you print something out on their printer.

[ICantSpellDawg]

My laptop has been out for service for almost 4 months, my pc's power supply and video card have been busted for over a month now, my dvd player broke because it is a piece and my tv's sound comes in and out at its leisure.

I have nothing to do atm except bother my girlfriend to go online or visit my parents house to check my e-mail. - on the plus side, I am 2/3rds of the way through becoming a federal officer, so maybe this wasn't the worst timing.

I miss my set-up desperately and will soon replace it with a fixed laptop, mid-range desk-beast, un-in power supply, wireless printer, Headset/throttle/joystick set, and HD monitor with TV tuner card. YESSSSSSSS. Then I will harass all of you again.