OT: A True Loss

[Atrocities]

You guys crack me up.

rdouglass, thanks for the offer, but I too have tons of spare parts. I was going to take the parts that are still good and build a new P4 system. I loved my P2, and still have no clue as to way it crashed and burned. I think perhaps the Power supply or the Chip toasted.

It made a loud POP while booting, continued to boot, then Popped again, everything went down, and then the smoke came out. Pulled the panel, and could not find the source of the smoke.

Then today while starting up this PC, Scandisk (Win2k) says that my new secondary drive (HD) has errors and has to be repaired. That was a surprise. (I had killed a bunch of ad ware programs before shutting it down Last night.)

That or the damned HD is about to fricking fail again. Will be the second HD from Western Digital to fail in 6 months. They will replace it of course, but with what? The used, burned out one I had to give them in order to get this used burned out one? Hummmm

Oh by the way, my shiney new Sony Digital DVCam Corder that Sears sold to me as new... Well, why does the memory card have pictures of people sitting around a lodge up at Mt Hood? The damn thing is used! Any suggestions on how to approach this?