Took Blackhawk computer (computer at Cotton Plant) to Uptech Computer yesterday (2012-12-12) because it won't boot at all now. It started hanging after reboot earlier this week (it has Windows XP) and so I brought a Linux disk and tried to boot into Linux. After it tried unsuccessfully to boot into PC Linux OS (live CD), it hung and I rebooted again. Now it won't even get to the motherboard splash screen which is always the first screen to appear on reboot. The Linux disk must have corrupted the CMOS or something.
2012-12-18 Uptech said there was a broken chipset fan on the mobo of blackhawk and that they could not find one to replace it with because it was an old mobo. I don't know how hard they tried to find an old fan that would replace it. It was a flat little fan that screwed into the mobo over some chips or chips (I read about chipset fans and they seemed to be mostly for northbridge and southbridge chipsets). Fan was parallel to mobo when screwed in.
So they offered to put the hard disk into an external enclosure so that it could be attached to any computer as a USB drive. They only charged me $70 which was about half for the enclosure and half for labor. So data from blackhawk is now copied onto the jaywalker hard disk and the blackhawk drive is plugged into a USB port on jaywalker. Blackhawk had not really worked right in a while anyway, because its old Win XP OS was not booting into a standard desktop view and the task manager would not come up. So blackhawk - the computer built from scratch by David Curran and I is gone!!!
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