Weeell....
Dec. 27th, 2005 07:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
featherynscaleThe computerbox is dead. Official-like. Yesterday, while following up on a suggestion by ES that had something to do with removing and replacing the CMOS battery, I noticed that a number of capacitors on the motherboard were coated in some really interesting corrosion crystals, and went "Hmmmmmm." Later, ES dropped by, looked at the board and the capacitors and the corrosion crystals and said, "Um. Yeah." He also said things like "If you had a really steady hand, you could pull off those capacitors and solder in new ones." At this point, I held up my hands, let everyone observe the reason why I am completely inelegible to be a neurosurgeon (but the jury's still out for gynecologist). He said "Um. Yeah." again. So he said he'd like to have a go at it, and I sent him home with the board and the processor, along with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
triadruid's old case, saying "More power to ye, laddie". And lo, I did buy new parts, which will be in the mail sometime this week.
On the upside, we've been having a fine time here at EHQ.greektoomey is here all week (so if you're available during the day and want to drop by and visit, that's cool), and we are prepping for the New Year's Champagne and Hentai party. We got lots of nifty toys for Winter Avarice, too!
And, it's not Queen of Wands, but another webcomic seems to have taken up residence in our house, or, at least, we seem to do this a lot....
triadruid's old case, saying "More power to ye, laddie". And lo, I did buy new parts, which will be in the mail sometime this week. On the upside, we've been having a fine time here at EHQ.
greektoomey is here all week (so if you're available during the day and want to drop by and visit, that's cool), and we are prepping for the New Year's Champagne and Hentai party. We got lots of nifty toys for Winter Avarice, too!And, it's not Queen of Wands, but another webcomic seems to have taken up residence in our house, or, at least, we seem to do this a lot....
