My desktop breaking has put a serious downer on my holiday. I mean, now that I have all this time I can’t do any real work with OpenPeer. It really sucks. Here’s the thread I made on Facepunch about it:

Right now I’m on my netbook as my main computer won’t start up. This whole problem started a few months ago, my computer would hang out of nowhere, the only way to reboot was to pull the plug as the reboot button did nothing. After I shut it down, it would take a few power cycles to get it through or to POST, afterwards on the first full boot into windows it would hang after a few minutes. Then I’d repeat this process and the computer would work fine for days. I never shut it down because if I did I’d need to do this all again.

Finally last night while I was browsing facepunch then computer stalled again. Used to this I just flipped the power switch on the PSU, waited a few seconds, and let it cycle a few times. However, no matter what I did it just wouldn’t boot. It being 2AM I went to bed. After I got up this morning the computer still refused to boot. I did manage to get it to POST three times but the computer hanged in BIOS options and then in the bootloader, and finally during a memtest86+. It hasn’t POSTed since.
I’ve tried a few troubleshooting steps with yumyum, but the computer still isn’t booting. We’ve tried

• All sorts of RAM combos (I have 2 2GB sticks and 4 slots)
• Checking connections
• Clearing the RTC

So finally the computer stopped working completely, and we called up ASUS. I’m surprised how quickly we got an RMA (Under 15 minutes). We only were asked a few questions and the tech decided to just have us send in the board. Cool. I went ahead and took apart the machine and threw the board in the anti-static bag that it came in. I wish I had packaging peanuts, thought I guess the airbags we had will do okay.

Afterwards we took the box to a UPS store. Surprisingly, these stores aren’t directly owned by UPS, it’s a separate company. As we’re waiting on line the only guy behind the counter is talking to this big hulky guy about how much the Jets suck and such. Whatever. One boring conversation later we’re up. We ring up the box, and fill out the forms, and pay $13.50. So when will it get there?

A week from Friday

Really? This is Wednesday mind you. What does this all mean? No computer for almost 4 weeks.

This sucks.

I had a receipt with a tracking number on it, however, I seemed to have misplaced it. I’ll post the tracking number when I find it.