My old computer has seen a very long tour of duty. The other day it broke down. It had been giving me problems for months, and a friend of mine had looked at it and said that it was my power supply, and that if I replaced that I should be fine. So when it broke the other day I figured that the power supply had finally gone out. So I go to best buy, I blow 60 bucks on a new power supply, then I have pay em 50 bucks to put it in (bastards).
Well, turns out that whether or not the power supply was broken or not, my REAL problem was that my motherboard was fried.
Yes...that old girl has gone to greener pastures now...she sits on the great big desktop in the sky, to relax for eternity idling her CPU with no tasks to perform. no longer at the beck and call of some filthy talking ape.
As sad as this all was...I was worried more about all my data. Fuck! Saved games, writing, my library of code, and not to mention the last twenty years worth of Blockedlance saves!!! So I 'borrow' one of my moms old computers. I go down there and they transfer everything from the dead one to the living one. It took a day, but I thought it was all over. I took it home, plugged it in, and....
WINDOWS CONFIG FILE CORRUPTED OR MISSING
INSERT WINDOWS OPERATING SYSTEM SETUP DISK
It went in a loop, over and over, it wouldnt start. And I didnt have the damn setup disk! What do they take me for? Some kind of organized person? God damnit I'm a dwarf, not an elf! That disk is probably in a box somewhere in the garage...Ill never find it!!! And why is my systm corrupted?!?! What the hell did the Geek Squad do to my moms computer? Now there are TWO harddrives worth of data at risk!
Well I took it back to the geek squad, they tried to tell me it wasnt them, but then they offered to fix it for free and of course they wouldnt do that if it wasnt their fault. So after fucking with it for another day, they used a store disk and fixed the computer.
Whew...
The dwarves were spared true Ragnarok.