I felt like a kid at christmas sitting on the end of my bed, opening the packaging of my video card. I opened it, tore the rest of the packaging off and slapped that puppy into my computer. No beeps, no error, it booted all the way till Vista started. then froze... I reset, thinking that I needed to change something in BIOS I dropped to that and changed a couple things around, I noticed that it wasn't running a mem test so I had it do that too...

and it stalled at boot again.

The first error was about the CPU fan not spinning up I ignored this one, it is a common one and not that big of a deal, the next was that memtest failed, that is a big one (means RAM is no bueno), and then I was back to square one. One long, two short beeps. That is a motherboard error code, you get those when the mainboard can't display anything through the video card. It was the same code as before, so I knew what it was... my mainboard failed as I was installing a new video card.

It honestly felt like a part of my soul died right there.

On top of this with the memtest failing I now know that the RAM is bad. I actually screamed loud enough to have my neibor text me to ask if I was alright, he thought I was getting killed or something. I said I was fine, stepped outside, bought a pack of smokes and smoked three of them in a row... I haven't smoked in days, didn't want to smoke, I just did.

If there is a god then he fucking hates me and everything I stand for. I am still paying for this damned computer. Now I have to replace a mainboard, RAM, and prolly the CPU. I might as well have bought everything myself and built the damned thing from scratch. Needless to say I am irate, this thing is less then two years old, I had it for less then six months and then it failed. I have half a mind to give the fucker back to my friend and say I don't want the damned thing anymore.