2008 – Year of the Dead Hardware

Hardware of mine that died this year:

1 Gigabyte GA-8IHPX Pentium IV motherboard – might have died in 2007, I only noticed it this year.
2 IBM DeskStar 75GB harddrives – one of these died with the motherboard, the other died recently, nearly taking all the data with it (they both formed a RAID1 mirror for safety reasons but of course managed to fail shortly one after the other)
1 ASUS Striker Formula II socket 775 motherboard – the one of my new PC

And today, the Wireless Interface of my laptop died. And not only that, if only the WiFi had died, I could’ve used my Linksys PCMCIA Wireless card to get access to my WLAN, so of course the PCMCIA controller’s dead too!

P.S. I had to actually write this post twice as the damn network cable managed to get disconnected when I submitted it the first time.

I hate computers!

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