Got up this morning, main computer dead. Not a peep out of the power supply. I have an old, dead PC I don't use for anything and tested that that powered up - at least as far as fans turning on, things spinning up etc. - with its (old, small) power supply. Moved the desktop power supply into that old machine, not a peep ( Read more... )

Any recommendations? I currently have an iRiver iHP-120 thingermy. It's served me well, and it was second hand, but it now appears to be succumbing to a hard drive problem - it sometimes has IO errors/skips songs1, sometimes can't find the Hard Drive when powering on. So I've backed up pretty much all of it (just to avoid having to sift it all ( Read more... )

There is literally nothing in the world I don't hate now. Oh, except the post which meant that a book I ordered from France last week turned up ( Read more... )

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