Well, our eMachines lasted just over four years. (I introduced it at http://goo.gl/udELH)
I finally got the opportunity to change the thermal compound on the CPU fan/heatsink assembly, but after I re-latched it to the frame around the processor (it has a lever-and-hook with two hooks) and tried to restart the machine, the frame cracked loose and the whole shebang dropped to the bottom of the case, cracking off almost half the wings of the fan and scattering four screws that looked like they were holding the frame. I couldn't sleep; it's like you've lost a member of the family. I still would like to know how that hucking frame attached to the motherboard, and so does Dad. He was understandably p!ssed, tho not to the point of wanting to bust my head open. Part of him, of course, wants to blame me, but I don't know that things would have been any different had I left the shards of the fan and the screws inside the case with the service door closed. We went to a BBY and got -- isn't life strange -- another Compaq. I'm guessing it runs Win7. It might have a T-byte hard drive (six times what the e had) Now we need to figure out how to transfer stuff from the old drive to the new; part of me wants to ask Dad's ISP, who also sells and repairs PCs, to help. -- a very depressed BOB -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
