That's funny. I was told the very same thing this morning by a higher authority. Took me ages and many restarts to get online and the connection is dodgy. It must be divine online saving day or something.

Did ye not get the hint with the broken fingers, lassie?

(Commiserations - I have a PC here that's pretty well lost a hard drive with scores of gigabytes of stuff on it I'd rather prefer not to lose.)

...or that you need a new hard drive or power supply.

Didn't you hear: God is in the interwebs.

It's not particularly hot there today, is it?

(Problems at this time of year are often heat. However, assuming Auntie Beeb is telling the truth, you're cooler there than we are here, and it's not hot here, just muggy.)

It's not hot at all. :)

Well after running as many different hard ware test as I can and having nothing else plugged in save the hard drive it looks like the hard drive has died. :P

It is not our year for computers at all.

Is it beginning the boot process. at least? If it's a hard drive failure, you should still be seeing the BIOS startup messages and such before it stops, and it likely ought to complain about the lack of a boot device.

If it's not even getting THAT far, then it may be a problem with the motherboard or power supply. If it powers on and then, a few seconds later, powers off again - that's almost certainly the power supply. Purely anecdotally, every 'crud, my machine stopped booting' problem I've ever had eventually turned out to be a power supply problem. I may just have bad luck :)

I believe this is Author Break Day, a new official (I said so when I was at my office) world-wide holiday. I've seen at least 3 author blogs with computer problems.

Balls! You knw what they say: God never closes one door but he shuts another. Good luck dealing with the withdrawal.

Ah poo. Sorry that box didn't last longer. I'll assume you've done the usual diagnostics.

We will shortly have another spare desktop, unfortunately down in Cork isn't so handy for you guys anymore.

As a systems administrator...I suggest a big hammer, or at least dropping the contents of the TBR shelf onto the drive!

Does the drive spin up? Can be helpful to put it into another machine for the scan. Ran into a few cases, where a drive wasn't in working order for a boot -- but could be mounted as a secondary drive for some scans.