well, another one down...

let's see, i think that is either five or six in three years... sheesh...

it had been making some odd noises for a couple months and refusing to boot once in a while, but, last night, the screensaver kicked on, which meant reading the disc, and i hear a bit of a grinding noise...
and then i heard nothing but the cooling fan...

poor little thing puts in 12-hour days, every day, and the disc it runs 99% of the time is a burned dreampassport premier cd... not the best-made burn, either... and all the loading of japanese fonts, etc., takes its toll, little by little, until it finally screams "you can't fire me, i quit!" and gives up the ghost...

i borrowed miss mary's drive for the moment... (we stopped putting the screws back in long ago, so, it is a quick operation...)

among all our spare parts we don't have a single healthy gd-rom drive (though, we have a few dead/sick ones), so, we are going to have to go track one down... should be simple enough and it keeps getting cheaper every time this comes up...

i know i used to post at dcbg every time i blew a gd-rom drive, i wonder if i could go find those posts... would be interesting to see a timeline...