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Sniff, sob, time to bury the old HP laptop...sob, sob
She died quietly, first a BSOD and the ominous message:
*** Hardware Malfunction
Call your hardware vendor for support
*** The system has halted ***
Then, despite immediate intervention, she would no longer go through POST, with or without her hard drive or RAM chip.
I think it was her heart that failed; and since that component is soldered to the main board, I was not able to save her.
She was a tough old bird. She was a 'parting gift' from a former employer when I left there.
I swapped video displays on her when her backlight failed, and she went through at least two hard drives in her lifetime.
Many cherished photographs and emails passed through her ethernet port, and her PCMCIA slot always kept her Cisco WLAN adapter safe and warm.
Her final years were spent being a video monitor for a security DVR system, as her 1GHZ processor was not able to keep up with the younger computers.
Burial at sea will be on Sunday at noon, weather permitting.