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| About a week earlier my motherboard decided to keel over on me. But luckally I had just enough time to order a new motherboard before it locked up and stopped booting.
The problem was mostly my fault. over a month ago we had a poweroutage. and if any of you know anytime that happens it almost always means -something- hardware related fails on me. This time it was a chip fan on the motherboard. I figured I had 2 case fans on the back, 1 in front, 1 on my 2 500G HDs, 1 on my video card and then my CPU fan, that surely is enough fans right? Well I monitored the temp inside which never got above ~38-40°C well within a safe range. However problems started happening when I tried burning a DVD. about 50% through the process it failed with an I/O error and refused to read anything. figuring it was just some stupid cdrom issue with linux I rebooted.
grub loaded and failed with a 'file not found' error. after figuring out somehow my drive numbering changed I fixed my boot entry and it booted. (I also tried loading a liveCD which failed.) Confirmed my cdrom drive was dead I got a spare one, installed that and this time it sporatically worked. So I changed the IDE cable and boom everything works again. Then started the lock-ups, I ordered and yah.
damage report? 1 Motherboard, DVD/CD Burner, an IDE cable and all Animes starting with U, V, W, X, Y and Z. (possibly more not sure)
For the record The data loss happened with an ext3 filesystem. A-O are stored on a ReiserFS partition and no dataloss (to my knowledge).
Set me back about $70 and over a week on a freelance job. Moral of the story, get your fans replaced quickly, watch out for ext3 and be sure to call your freelance employer the day you figure out you can't boot your computer. don't wait to send an email when you get a semi-usable computer up.
Also Ichigo is not named after the main character in Bleach, but because I love strawberries ... and catgirls (see Tokyo Mew Mew.) ftw =p (side note: no I am not into furry. add the ears/tail and they are so cute~ XD)
