Computer still broken................

I'm kind of bummed out tonight, as I spent most of the day backing up my Linux machine, and late in the afternoon, I finally got the case off of the machine...  Remember I built this computer about three years ago.....

But that didn't mean that I remembered what was inside of the box....  The screws hadn't been out of it in all that time........  But now the hard drive is questionable and the time to fix it is before it quits entirely...

But it was just my luck that the drive was the old technology IDE style drive, and of course when I purchased the new drive last winter, I purchased a SATA drive...   But not the cables and stuff that it takes to hook it up....  Assumed the one in the box was the newer style........but it wasn't...

So right at 5 PM, I was driving like a maniac headed for the computer parts store before they closed...  Bought the parts I thought would fix it and came back.......

And after about an hour of installing the new drive, I determined that the new sealed up in mylar plastic drive is broken....  Of course since it was purchased last January, or perhaps even December and never installed there's absolutely nothing I can do about it.............  Go buy a new one and pitch the broken new one......!

So I am without my big screen desktop favorite computer tonight........  Well I could have put it back together with the old drive so it would work, but that seems like a waste of time....

Loyce decided that she was going to mow the yard today, and I hustled right outside and put gas in the self propelled walk behind Lawnboy...  It's older, but has a magnesium deck and aluminum motor, so its much lighter than anything you could buy today...

She did all of the trimming, and the front yard, and I thought things were going to be really good...  So I hopped on the JD rider and finished the large part of the back yard in fairly quick order...

But that's when I learned that the Home Depot people were arriving with paving stones to do landscaping.....  Uh,,,,,,  well, I guess we will be stumbling around these bricks for a while because the folks that are supposed to put them in are weeks behind.......  This will be an unfolding story for the future...

Anyway I'm still grumbling over my disassembled computer...  I'll have to go get more new parts tomorrow... But the day is turning out to be a zoo, so we'll see if there is time to work on it....

Retired Rod