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I just left a message with our systems guy to see if he has an external hard drive I can borrow to make the swap. I deeply appreciate all the responses from everybody to my question, and they all serve to reiterate how confusing and utterly uncertain this is turning out to be.

Before you know it, you start thinking married people are still engaged.

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Part 2 (didn't even know there was supposed to be one)

I just thought this was confusing. I had no idea.

I called our computer guy at work and he said he had an external hard drive I could borrow for the swap. Yay. Then at lunchtime, Grancey called me and said she had restarted her computer and had a funny error message. It said as follws:

Alert! Heatsink chip set not detected. System halted.

So, I wrote it down and took the message back to our computer guy at work and he said that was not a good message. So when I got home we opened up the case and found the heatsink rattling around loose inside the case not attached to anything. There were two little metal angular wire-arms sticking out of the heatsink but there was only one hook on the motherboard and there was adhesive on the bottom of the heatsink. We could tell that since one of the hooks was missing, they just glued the damn thing on and since the towercase stands on end instead of laying down flat the heatsink eventually fell off. Happy happy joy joy.

So this morning I'm taking Grancey's computer into work to see if my computer guy can perhaps solder another hook onto the motherboard or find some other way to reattach the heatsink (her computer is long past warranty). Otherwise we shall be computer shopping during this glorious tax-free weekend coming up in Alabama and we'll have TWO sets of harddrive info to transfer.

Yay?

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