Adventures in personal computing

[louiselux]

I think I killed my desktop pc this afternoon.

It's elderly, or actually in personal computer terms more like an antique. I bought it in 1999 and we've had our up and downs together. It spent the whole of 2003 randomly beeping. Anyhow, it pulled through but had got the point recently where it was freezing every few minutes, so this afternoon I did a clean reinstall of Windows98, going back to the factory settings. It worked great for about half an hour but now it freezes when I try and use windows explorer. This is a pretty serious state of affairs because it means I can't actually make it do anything. At all.

Hmmm. Bugger.

Obviously there is the laptop to use, but I like the whole notion of having a desk, filling it with crap and then and sitting at my desk doing desk-based things.

Comments

[nekonexus.livejournal.com]

Sounds like it might actually be your hard drive, in which case, you might be able to buy a new one and stick it in, reinstall '98 and get it working again. But I wouldn't guarantee or recommend it really. Microsoft has discontinued support for Win'98, so you won't likely be able to get all the security patches etc.

On the other hand, you can buy a new off-the-shelf PC for about $300 on sale these days.

It's no fun to have a PC die. ~_~ Hope you can work out a fix/replacement.