As I was going over what needed to be done that weekend, I wasn’t planning on spending any more money on computer hardware.  Lemme see: Scrape paint off cement, fill in gaps with Great Stuff, fix hole in wall, mow, work on WAT…

“Daddy?”

“Yes baby?”

“Why doesn’t the computer turn on?”

“What!  It was working when I shut it down last night!”

After a few hours of jiggling wires and sitting and staring, I yanked the power supply out and brought it to CompUSA.  The dude plugged a few of the connectors into his device and concluded everything was in working order.  Bummer, so much for that simple solution.

Time for a trip to Fry’s.  (I know what you are thinking, and I’ll explain: CompUSA has a 15% return policy. No thanks.)

One CPU. One Motherboard. 2GB RAM.

That’ll be $178 please. I suppose that is much cheaper then a new system would have been, with NO loss of data. (Except maybe for those poor souls from My Tribe, may they rest in peace. [Thanks for nothing Big Fish.])