Dying Slowly

My PC is dying a long, drawn out death.  It’s to a point where I cannot do the things I need to do with it.

The first sign was when the motherboard died.  I should have just cut my losses and ran, but not me.  I found what I thought was a suitable replacement and got it going again.

This suitable replacement has been nothing but a pile of headaches.  I can no longer import video on my machine.  I must do that job on my wifes’ laptop and then transfer it to mine.  My disc burning speeds have been halved to 8x.  The last two DVDs I burnt had an audio sync issue, so I believe there are more issues there as well.

My main hard drive crashed as soon as the new motherboard was replaced.  While we did recover all files from it, and actually still use it, the end is near for that as well.  The computer does not want to shut down and performance is like that of a 486.

Last night was the breaking point, as my USB ports are only working intermittently.  I use my USB ports for everything, I have 15 of them!  When I can’t sync my phone or access my flash drive for school, that’s big trouble.

All of this in a time of change.  As of right now, we are about 1/3 of the way done on our basement remodel.  I have finished all the “real” work on one side.  All we have to do is add some more insulation and vapor barrier, then it’s on to the next.

I’m hoping to hold onto this until I get the basement done and a new machine can have a proper place.  Whether that happens is yet to be seen.