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looks like I had this one pegged from the beginning!

QUOTE(AYHJA)..I think that what I'm going to do is instead of investing 10 bucks into a bunch of canned air, I'm gonna take my PSU to a service station and run a compressor over it...Shit, at this point, it can't hurt it I don't think...

Haha, that was what I was going to say! I had no idea about these PSU's and stuff, but I guessed that dust might be causing the problem, and a good blast with the air compressor should do the trick. Run it up to 100kPa or so, but be light on the touch, don't press the jet button too hard, or keep it in one spot! /wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=";)" border="0" alt="wink.gif" /> :flamer: [meant to be air blasting out, not flames]

So...I goes out at midnight...And as if the world wasn't already crashing the fuck down around me, I couldn't find a can of compressed air nowhere...Went to not one, but TWO Super Wal Mart's...Unfuckingbelieveable...

So, I had this older laptop stored in my bathroom under the cabinet...It was made for 2K Pro, so, I'm thinking 128 MB of RAM...Celeron...

Turns out, it has a 2.4 GHz Pentium 4 M, and a Giga and a half of RAM...It came into my possession because the harddrive failed to boot...So, I tried to fully format it, waited until it hung (About 63% of a 60 GB HDD) and partitioned off a 30 GB chunk to run Windows on...I most booted it up today to play with...Turn out, it has wireless internet, there is wireless internet in my apt complex, and lo and behold, my ass is online...

And to be honest w/you, I am LOVING once again the freedom of being anywhere in the house doing my computing...

So, even though I will fix RA, as long as I'm sure my data is safe, I'm in no hurry...This does, however, put a damper on Achilles...Or maybe, I'm not sure...This laptop doesn't appear to have a USB port, which will eventually limit what I can do with it, but I'm not sure what all I can do, so the best may be yet to come...I'm going to take my PSU out tomorrow tho, and see if I can get someone to take some industrial air to the damn thing and get it back working properly....