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"i swear when 'good' luck comes my way it comes in bushels" @ 4.4.2001
i swear i am dumb as a nail sometimes. i mean..that dumb and then some.

here's why.

so i had an exccess of money..i did some good shifts etc. and i was wanting a new sound-card plus a little control panel for my computer. it'd allow me to plug headphones into my computer easier etc. so i went out and drove around trying to find this thing. and i finally did..for about 150..which is what i would've paid if i had tried to do it over the net.

so i get home and take it out of the packaging. look around in the manual and do all that sorta stuff. then i turn the computer off and begin to remove things so i can install it. that's when i notice the dust. a lot of it.

hmm..maybe i should clean that. i think, bad idea. bad, bad idea.

but i didn't know that at the time and instead went around looking for the air-in-a-can thingies. ya know the pressurized air that you can spray to dust computer parts off. so i get that out and start sprayin, it does a pretty damned good job as a lot of the dust comes off. then i get the idea to try to dust under my video card. therein lies the problem.

i turn the can sideways and tilt it up to spray it..then all of a sudden i see it spew liquid. oh shit. i instantly think as i spaz. so like i look at the area again..it seems fine, no residue or anything. so maybe i got off ok.

wrong.

i plug everything back in and try to turn the computer on. i see nothing. just a little "no sync" on my monitor [means it's not getting any signal] and nothing.

so i try a bunch of shit, take everything out and hope the system will post [that's when you hear a *beep* when you boot-up] not even that. so damnit there went my motherboard.

so now after spending 150 bucks on a sound-card. i have to spend another 150 on a new friggin motherboard just to get my damned thing to work.

i swear when 'good' luck comes my way it comes in bushels.

scud.

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