A Day in Paradise

Stella went out with friends (to watch LOTR:ROTK), so I decided to tear apart my computer to see why the damn thing doesn’t run when standing up.

There wasn’t much to go on, but I assumed that there was something stuck under the motherboard, so everything came off and there it was, a screw sitting in one of the dips in the case. When the computer was laying on its back the screw would be in the bottom of the dip, but when it was standing up it would roll down and short circuit the motherboard.

So I got rid of that, and it seems to be working just fine. Now I’m focusing on my 120 gig HDD, I’m running a burn in test, which should take over an hour, and if that doesn’t do anything I’ll do a low-level format before sending it back to the manufacturers.