Totally Dead Computer
It wasn’t sufficient for my computer to simply have an OS problem. Apparently it’s the motherboard, which no longer seems to recognize the hard drives. I would like to think it’s a decent motherboard since it’s an Intel 845, but it seems to have gone round the bend. The CPU is a 2.4 GHz Intel chip, but at this point I’m not strongly inclined to salvage either of them. My concern is whether I’ll be able to resurrect my data. I don’t have much hope, as the HD controller seems to have been increasingly erratic and may have corrupted my drive.
Craptastic.