CAIN Lives!!

Okay.  For those of you that read the last post understand what I mean.  Anyway.  Call it stubborn.  Call it persistence.  It really doesn't matter what you call it.


Back story:
First of all:  I went with Lazarus.  Seemed fitting.  Actually, I'm creating this entry on Lazarus.  Anyway.  So, last night I was on a bit of a high because of Lazarus.  I thought, Dell sent me an email saying that their box was on its way and Computer guy called and said Lazarus would be ready by this morning, which it was, so what would be the harm of dicking around with Cain for a while.


So there I am at one in  the morning, dicking around with Cain when it hit me:  Why don't you plug all the things that were connected to Cain when he crapped out, try to run diagnostics from there.  So, like a child I plugged everything back into Cain, turned it on...Nothing.


I removed the battery and tried that static electricity thing that everybody tries...Nothing.  BUT!  This time Cain did something different.  The hard drive stayed on just a little bit longer that it was doing before.  The diagnostics Initialized.  The memory checked out.  And the Fan...Shut down.


I did that process of disrupting the static electricity several more times before it finally began to run the diagnostics.  Eureka!!!


Cain has been up and running the whole day now.  I ran the thorough test that should have lasted only thirty minutes but took two hours before I cancelled the test.  Ever since then, Cain has been acting good.


Anyway.  Now I have two computers.  I shut down Cain with the intention of powering him back up later.  I want to make sure he's fine, at least for the time being.


Lazarus ran me 81 bucks on my Amex.  That part stung, but alas, the price of victory!


Tune in next time for The Old and the Persistent!