I got my iBook almost a day ago, and I feel confidant saying that Iím satisfied with the way itís set up. Iíve got all the applications that I know Iíll never use out of my way, and Iíve downloaded all of the little must haves. Iím almost giddy to take it to a hotspot to try out the AirPort. Iíve gotten some other work done today too, and thatís mainly the focus of this post, youíll be hearing about this new computer for a little while, but to some it up in a quick phrase: Iím really happy with this, and it just works. It just works!

One of the things on my to-do list was to fix my old computer. Iím sure regular readers are quite familiar with this tale, and I wonít bore you with the details. In an unrelated purchase, with my iBook we got a new processor/heat sink for the computer. This would have to fix the computer, there was no way it didnít.

Guess what the next line of this post is. Wait for it. Wait for it.

It didnít work.

Gotcha! In my furry, I swapped the motherboard back, and lo and behold we have a symptom. Now, it turns on for fifteen seconds and then shuts itself off. Bam. Nothing at all other than that. I havenít so much as seen the bios of this computer in six months. So my current theory is to replace the motherboard, on the grounds that it couldnít be anything else. Itís not the hard drive, because the hard driveís arenít relevant in the early stage of the boot process, it canít be the processor (unless the old one died, and the new one was DOA, which seems unlikely), itís not the ram, that all checks out, itís not the motherboard unless the old one died and then the new one was DOA), itís not the video card, cause it doesnít get to the video card stage. See where Iím left. Thereís no other vital system that it could be.

On the other hand, if it is the power supply, Iím going to be really mad, and itíll be pretty easy to build a second computer, given that all the components I have would then be good. If it is the power supply, this would have to officially go down in history as the oddest power supply malfunction in the history of the world ever. Ever.

Cheers, best of luck (to everyone, but Iím needing it, so I figure a karmatic adjustment is in order), and Iíll post again soon. Promise.