No mine is hardware related. My computer uses 256MB DDR2 memory modules. I've got 4 DIMM connector slots for memory, divided into two pairs. One pair has white clips the other has black, (that makes no difference it just distinguishes them) I left for class yesterday, left my computer on, came back an hour later and it wasn't working. Assuming it was the memory I tired to figure out which card was the faulty one so I took them both out and put them in one at a time instead of in pairs. It turns out both the cards work when they are by themselves, them computer starts and runs fine, albeit a bit slowwer, but it works. I tried the two in every possible combination in both the white and black slots (you have to have either one card, or a pair in the same color, you can't have one in black and one in white) and whenever there are two cards in the computer won't start. That's when I figured out that my motherboard is shot, again, with a week before finals and I have a paper due Friday. The motherboard and power uspply stopped working last semester at the exact same time, but back then I couldn't even turn it on because the power supply was broken. This time at least it functions, not very well, but it works. So i've got to replace my motherboard for a second time. This is so ******* frustrating. Back at the end of February/begining of March, my hard drive quit working, so I couldn't turn on the computer, I lost every file I had. And I had a paper due within the week. Luckily I had backed some of my stuff up, but that was back in August so I still lost a lot. I had luckily emailed my self a copy of what I had done so far because I had planned on working on it at the library a few days earlier, which I never did, so I got really lucky I had accidentally made a backup. I'm still replcaing those files, I had to redo all my SG-1 custom cards, and I had several SW cards as well that were lost and I'll have to redo at somepoint. I'm not making this up either this is a true story. It ******* sucks, it makes me so angry that these kinds of things can't just work. I have never had problems with Dells before or even my families 9 year old Compaq. Oh I forgot, I used Norton antivirus and back in November or December, it decided to quit working after 3 months, I supposedly had a 15 month subsription through Dell. When I try to update it,it tells me I have exceeded the max number of downloads and my trial subcription has ended and the program doesn't work at all. When I try and register the program with the symantec server it says it can't establish a connection, so I can't re-register it or check the status of my account.
Moral of the story... the little gnomes that break my computer suck! And if I ever see them, they are dead!
