He's Dead Jim... my Gateway Solo that is.
It finally happened.
After it got dropped by my brother's girlfriend two years ago.
After the screen stopped working because of the drop.
After I got if for free and fixed the screen with tape, a block of wood and a spring clamp.
After I took the screen completely crapped out and I pulled the screen off to use with a monitor.
After I wiped it and spent weeks tweaking and customizing SuSe till it was perfect.
After I'd just gotten REALLY comfortable using LINUX.

Ka-Blooey. Nothing. It overheated and it won't boot now, the cd-rom won't spin up, and the fucking BIOS crashes when you try to save alternate settings.

It's time for it to go to laptop heaven.

The upside is that I'm buying my brother's desktop and will be TRIPLE BOOTING the bad boy with SuSe, XP and OSX. I'll be rolling 500 gigs of storage and pushing some sweet divx video to my big TV via DVI. Pretty bad ass really.
- posted by Mason @ 6:30 PM