Re: PC dying or dead- is mobo the cause?

larry moe 'n curly wrote:

Are you the kind of person who tosses out the whole car just because a
headlight burns out?

I'm the kind of person who fixes old computers, and assembles new ones, with the objective of giving a person a dependable machine that is a pleasure to use.

I think it is a waste of time and money to "fix" a five year old PC. It's not worth it, except maybe to prove something, and win a bet.

Go ahead, replace the power supply and the mobo battery. Then something else will go out. Fix that. Something else will go out. Finding compatible bits and pieces from other discarded PCs is a crapshoot. They are used/old too, and can't be depended upon.

Go ahead and make a hobby or a career out of keeping these tottering ruins chugging away, and bless you. Me, no thanks. You may think it saves money (as long as you are doing all the work yourself), but that's assuming that your time isn't worth much.

I have had enough inhaled primeval dust to last a lifetime.

Now go ahead and line up to brag, all of you, about how long you have been suffering with four megs of RAM and a 500 MB hard drive. Bully for you, you fetishists, you cheapskates. :)
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