Sigh, by some strange coincidence, my ram, hard drive, and my subwoofer conked out in the same evening.
I noticed my computer wasn’t working fine because of a lot of BSODs and computer freezes and errors, and I guessed it was the RAM. Today it breathed it’s last, and died on me in the middle of reading a very funny story. The computer refused to boot up and made beeping sounds. I removed one stick of 512 MB RAM(266MHz DDR), and the beeping continued. I removed the other stick and put the first one back in and the computer came back to life.
having 512 MB ram sucks 
. Afterward,I talked to a friend who is a hardware expert, and he told me he was surprised that the cheaper, over-the-counter RAM lasted as long as two and a half years.
The very same day, something went wrong with windows. I decided to give linux one more fair trial. I decided to stick to that until I got more RAM in December, and popped the debian autoinstall CD in. I let it start and go get some coffee, and when I’m back, I find that it’s stuck inbetween. After a reboot, even the windows bootloader doesn’t work fine. Turns out my partition table is ruined. My OSes were on a 40gb hard drive that was 4 years old (that’s around 30 in hard drive years, but that’s pretty okay), I have to send it back to the manufacturer to get it repaired, as it’s hopefully still under warranty.
Then I decided that I’m not gonna spend today trying to fix a broken computer. I just turned it off went outside and watched four kittens try to catch bugs in the lawn nearby.
Best decision I’ve ever made.
If anybody knows how to repair a broken partition table without having to cold format the drive, do let me know.
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