This just hasn't been my week.
My problems started last week, when my PC started crashing during normal operation. Since I'd just reinstalled not too long ago and skipped a file during said install, I figured that file was important. And so, I resinstalled--and the darn thing crashed during reinstall. Again, and again, and again. I think I swore more in the last five days than the past five weeks.
Over the rest the week, suffering through an illness, I eliminated everything from the hard drive to the memory as being faulty. My video card, which has been forever a problem (and was the root of the orignal crashes), was finally replaced last night.
So, expecting an easy install, I wind up with the same crash-on-install problem. More swearing. More troubleshooting. And then I take a look at the components, and notice that two of the capacitors on my motherboard have burst; it's a miracle the thing works at all.
Thankfully, the damage doesn't seem to be beyond that--and capacitor replacement on an Abit KT7 seems a common enough fix.
The only question is, should I pay some experienced shmuck halfway across the country to fix the board, or buy the parts and tools and take this as a learning activity? I'm inclined to the latter, but I have a suspicion this might be a bad idea on my part.
