Electronicae…

Woes, woes, woes. Last night, I decided (because I was bored and peed off with learning the ins and outs of various CMSs – I’m still trying to find some easy, simple CMSs for future clients – WordPress is getting a bit heavyweight nowadays, with too perhaps many bells and whistles for a n00b to be comfortable with) to have another go at installing the new memory into my machine.
Everything seemed to be going OK, until I switched the PC back on. Nothing. The fans and the drive spun, the drive lights came on. But nothing on the screen, no sound from the PC. Then I noticed a scorching smell. I hit the rocker switch and stuck my nose into the case. Yup – a smell of something burnt wafted up from one particular spot on the motherboard.
Since then I’ve tested what I can, and it all comes back to the motherboard being fried.
buggerbuggerbugger. Just what we don’t need right now.
I had actually been thinking for a while that I should get a new board at some point – this one is five or six years old. But there’s always been something more urgent to spend money on (like a new car, forex).
It’s lucky I have this old laptop. But it’s far from suitable. With only 128mg of memory, it won’t run any of my programs (not that the programs I use most often will run with Linux anyway); the browser freezes when it gets a page with too many images and/or scripts; the keyboard and touchpad are awkward to use; it’s so sloooooow!. And I was congratulating myself earlier on backing up all my data only three weeks ago, before discovering that it’s all on DVDs, and the laptop has only a CD drive.
But at least I can use email, do (limited) websurfing and update my websites.
I am peed orf.