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[which_chick]

Following yesterday's post, my laptop hard drive made rather alarming crunching noises and ceased to function. Operating system not found. No boot sector.

As the laptop is four years old and as the on-board CD/DVD drive hasn't worked for the last year and a half and as I have decided that a candy-apple red washer & dryer set at a thousand bucks per is not going to feature in my life no matter how sexy it looks in the store at S & S, I bought a new laptop. It's red (didn't cost any more than "grey"). I bought a Dell this time (Vaio wasn't willing, at least online, to sell me an XP computer, Vista only) and it should be here Wednesday at the latest.

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[not-your-real.livejournal.com]

I have:

. one laptop which every so often hangs at the POST screen (often after beginning to drop keypresses) and can only be restarted by removing the battery
. one desktop, vintage 1998 and running FreeBSD, which started making such scary fan noises last week it's been powered off since - but I did successfully replace the power supply the last time that happened, so not so scary, except that probably means it's the motherboard fan to blame, so scary after all!
. one Palm Tungsten W which has a ToDo list so corrupted that just asking it to list all its programs/databases crashes it
. one (new, used, apparently munged together out of two different units) Tungsten C which stubbornly refuses to actually work with my wireless

Actual trouble-free machines? Zero.