On 23 Jun 2003 at 5:12, Ronn!Blankenship wrote: > At 07:26 AM 6/23/03 +0100, Andrew Crystall wrote: > >So my landlady wants her work PC fixed, and I want to leave some > >stuff in her basement this summer and pick it up in late september. > > > >So I spent the best part of a day and a half fixing little faults, > >and the thing is STILL crashing, it gets file corruption on a > >reinstalled windows within half a dozen boots. > > > >And when I take out the graphics card (a SiS POS) to see if putting a > >better card would help...it just stops working. Oh, and that's when I > >discovered the cracked chip on the motherboard. > > > >Naaargh. And it wouldn't boot after that. Ah well, at least my old > >P166 laptop which has been gathering dust since I picked up my > >Fujitsu Stylistic 1200 is getting used now.. > > > > I'm happy that things worked out for both of you, but I'm not clear as > to how it illustrates "irony" . . .
But it hasn't. I wasted a lot of time trying to fix a dying PC, and a P166 laptiop is er...a little slow...compared to the PC she had... Andy Dawn Falcon _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
