PC Rant Thread

[G-Benz]

No questions just a rant:

I think I may have stumbled on an ancient PC curse somehow.

I lost the boot sector on my hard drive on my PC about a month ago. After a slow week of recovery, it crashed again less than a week later. This time I decided the drive was faulty and went out and bought a new (and bigger) one. It's now up as we speak.

Same week, my wife notifies me that my daughter's PC won't boot (operating system not found). I can't even get that one to bring up the BIOS menu! Before I take a mallet to it, I check the cables in the case and one of the drive cables had worked loose...VOILA! It boots up fine...everything is ok.

Today, my dad calls me to tell me his 18-mo old Dell won't boot up. This, after talking to an offshore Dell support rep over the phone for a couple of hours, who gives up and tells him they can get him up and running for $200!

I talk him through the BIOS boot sequence changes and reinstall of XP and now he is humming along doing the rest of the recovery himself.

I'm now waiting for my laptop and my wife's workstation to get hit next...