Guess what’s back in the shop? Yes, my new computer has gone back to its birthplace yet again.

Yesterday I discovered that the machine was crashing to a cold boot – no blue screen of death, no hanging in hyperspace – because one of the two HyperX 512MB RAM chips is defective. At least that seemed to be the problem: when I left chip A in and ran a diagnostic, the system crashed, but B completed the diagnostics fine.

So, I was feeling pretty good until a few minutes later I realized that I was off line because the built-in ethernet card was no longer functioning. So, back it all goes to my local computer shop where they’re watching whatever profit they made get eaten by the labor they’re putting. They’re nice guys, but I do sort of want to have a working PC at the end of this…

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