Everything, Everything

I'm pretty sure the motherboard is dead (we're talking 99.9% sure), just depends if EPoX will replace it for me, of if I have to go through Overclockers - I bought the original board from them just over 2 years ago, so it's outside the warranty now, but the fact the replacement board only lasted 18 months might be good enough for EPoX UK to replace it (especially as this is my second board in such a short period of time). Or I'll just get myself a new motherboard and AMD 64 bit processor, I've gone 18 months with my trusty 2800+, that's impressive for me (I used to go about 9-12 months befor replacing a processor). I can probably reuse most of my existing kit, and pass down the 2800+ to my dad (replacing his 1600+). Still a pain to have to reinstall XP and activate it with the new motherboard, and install all my software again. I might throw the disk into another PC to get the partitions ready for a clean new install, it's a good job that disk now has a spare 16GB on the second partition that I can use to duplicate the first partition onto before wiping it clean.

It's a good job I have a TFT and wireless keyboard and mouse, as it was easy to hook it up to SilentBob2 in the cupboard. It's quite weird to be working on such a quiet PC again, although it's still sluggish.

I love my new headphones though! At least there's been one good thing about Friday. My plan is to buy both of Zero 7's albums and a big tub of chocolate icecream this weekend, then bring it in with my CD player and new headphones to listen to at lunchtime as I devour rich fatty icecream in front of everyone.