Minding my own business, happily traversing the interweb and I get the black screen of death (yeah I thought it was blue)

Two days trying everything my son and me could think of to resurrect the POS (mostly my son, I'm a computer idiot)so I broke down and took it to one of the "repair" sites for diagnosis.

I'm hoping it's nothing more serious than a hard drive or motherboard that I pray won't cost more than the national debt of a third world country.

Son has several towers that he canabilizes to keep his stuff running, so he lent me one with a super slow processor (beggers can't be chosers) so I can manage my financial affairs and harangue the forum with long winded whining.

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

^LOL. Computers suck. It's always something. Mine was up and running this morning with Winblows XP and I came back to it later with a huge error on the boot screen stating that C:\Windows\System is corrupt please restart with Windows Cd and hit "R" to repair it or something like that. Looks like I'm reloading Windows again..dammit.

I'd buy Mac if I could afford one, but I can still build a good computer for less than buying one.

rough break man, the blue screen of death is bad but a black screen is much worse

hope it's something simple, jake!

First the good news, I will be buying a new computer. ( wait a minute, that's bad dummy) Going to wait a week or two until the mad rush for Windows 7 ends.

Bad news, the motherboard was fried and would cost approx. $250.00 to repair. Scratch one 2 year old puter. The hard drive and memory were still viable so I'll keep them and transfer files and such to an external.

We're still debating desktop/laptop though leaning toward laptop for portability. I've read some reports in the last few days about HP/compaq coming out with a "large" screen laptop for under $400.00.

&*%^#^&%)(& computers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I just picked up a Dell Inspiron with a 15.6 in monitor for 549.00. Of course I got it on base, but I know they can be had on their website pretty cheap also, plus they off a lot of rebates/deals from time to time. I am happy, 160GB HD, 4 GB RAM, DVD RW. It is all I really need, we still have the PC but it rarely gets used, mostly for storage (Larger HD). We fuct up when we bought that, got all the bells and whistles, and we are dumb as ****. Cost us 1300.00, and it has given lots of problems. From now on, we backup, backup, backup...when one gives us issues we get a new one. Life is too short to keep trying to fix something that is smarter than me, lol.

Good luck!!!

Diver

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Jake if the old hard drive in compatible, look for a usb case to make it a portable drive.

http://www.cdw.com/shop/search/results.aspx?key=usb+drive+enclosure&searchscope=All&sr=1&cm_mmc=sendtec-_-adwords-_-Data_Storage-_-Usb_Drive_Enclosure&SendTecID=14824361 

well caca...sorry to hear you'll have to get a new computer

We just got our desktop computer back last Saturday, we were without it for over a week, thank God we also have a laptop. Needed a new hard drive and the guy suckered us into a new/different antivirus program. Needless to say, $263 well spent. I've had this Dell desktop for 5 years now and no other problems, so I guess I can't b*tch too much.

It now runs like a charm and Eric isn't complaining that "it's too damn slow".

#8 Thanks for that link. That is something I will surely check on. Although there were no absolutely irreplaceable files, it would be nice to recover what was there.

It's great to be able to use the usb drive for storage and backups.

A few pottsian posts, and I can bring that f**ker to it's knees!!!

PLEASE NO POTTSY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm still using my sons' and it's super slow and old

Haven't gotten a new one yet, waiting for the windows 7 hysteria to abate

I used to build my own systems...strangely enough, had far fewer problems with them. However, it's so damned cheap to buy pre-made now, and I don't have time to build 10 for the offices...

Finally got a black screen on one the other day. Just decided to replace it. I don't have time to fark around with these things, diagnose, tear apart and rebuild like I used to. Too bad. I actually got to the point where I could put one together with a blindfold on. Now they're so cheap pre-made that it just isn't worth my time.

^If I just need workstation for using MS Office, email and surfing da intra web then I'll just buy a laptop from Dell Outlet. But since I have 3 kids I like to build a gaming system and I can build a fairly decent system comparable to a Dell XPS gamer system for around $400 using my old drives and case. Those systems usually run $1500 and up.