8 years. I knew this day would come. My trusty PC officially died on Monday February 1, 2010. A lot changed in those 8 years: RAM upgrade, hard drive upgrade, DVD burner upgrade, one complete reformatting and reinstall, one new controller board, and a new power supply. We accomplished a lot together: school projects, a CPA review course, numerous fantasy baseball drafts, work projects, a little web design, and tons of web surfing.
Sadly, a rogue spyware program took my PC down. I tried to save it, but I just couldn’t safely remove the program. I was able to grab my important files before my PC sipped its last bit of electricity.
Yes, I could reformat and reinstall Windows. But I won’t. It was my PC’s time to die. Reinstalling Windows XP would be an insult to my PC’s legacy. It’s time for it rest in peace. Who knows…maybe he’ll be reincarnated as a Linux box in a few years.
Good bye, PC. You will be missed.
Cancer of the Monitor is what got our PC. RIP POS PC w/ XP