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Last Tuesday my computer froze completely and refused to power up when rebooted. The trouble I faced when diagnosing the actual fault was that I suspected it was either an issue with the graphics card or the motherboard. However, I had no components to swap out to test them with. Once I would have. Once I ran multiple boxes at home, a mini-LAN, including a gateway server to route traffic to the internet. But, nowdays that’s been replaced by an inexpensive router and extra-storage is supplied by external USB drives rather another dedicated box.
I’ve always built my home systems, buying the components and assembling them myself. It’s no great ordeal, although it doesn’t carry the same benefit in cost that it may once have done. Nevertheless, it was a point of pride that I’ve always done it myself. This time I finally gave in and sent my computer to the local computer shop. It’s a sad change, but an inevitable one. It’s just so more cost effective for me to pay their hourly service charge than take time off work to do it myself. And, maybe its a sign of age, but I just couldn’t be bothered with it.
So, the machine went into the shop and the prognosis wasn’t good. The motherboard was toast and the hard-drive had become corrupted. They wanted to wipe the drive and reinstall the operating system, but that I wouldn’t allow. I got them to put a fresh drive in and leave my old one untouched. I’ve got slightly too-old backups and there is nothing on there that I can’t recreate, but one last ounce of techie pride means I’m unwilling to give up on it yet.
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