last night [for the fourth feckin time in my cack-handed career] i managed to knock a bottle of beer over in proximity to my computer. unfortunately, this time the wee blighter didnae survive the assault. he’s been with me about 5 years and has resisted the intrusion of red wine and guinness, but was finally brought to his knees by some marston’s pedigree ale

unfortunately, although i dried the comp out as best i could and left it upside down and dismantled overnight, the magic pixies did not fix it while i slept. so it was a quick mission to maplin’s for a set of hex keys to open up the patient and in i went. taking each component out in turn and swopping it with same from a similar laptop, i eventually tracked down the problem to the I/O board. closer examination revealed that the connections to one of the chips on the board were damaged with a black mark in evidence, presumably where a drop of beer caused a short-circuit or burn out. i’ve found the I/O boards on sale in the US for about $200, but havenae been able to track down a european source yet [after my past experiences with HM customs, there's no way i'm going to import one from the US!] so it might be time to save up for a new laptop. i’d been aiming to upgrade by about the middle of next year anyway, but this has kind of forced my hand, so to speak.

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