I swear to God that someone has cursed me!!!!  LOL 

I logged off of my laptop earlier today and tried to log back on around dinner time. I got some kind of message about picking a profile to login with, and I didn't know what to pick so I turned the machine "Off".  It rebooted fine, got me to my desktop and then just as suddenly I got a blue screen with a bunch of text on it, saying something about "if this is the first time you've seen this screen....", but it wasn't a normal blue screen.  All the letters and words were spinning/scrolling like a slot machine.   I panicked and turned the computer OFF.  Only when I went to turn it back on, nothing happened.

I called Dell, and after spending an hour with them and a Phillips screwdriver, they determined it was the "Mother Board".  And of course my hardware warranty expired in December   :cursing:

Anyway, my laptop is out of commission until I can get it fixed....which means Poser is also on hold  :b_crying: :b_crying:  :b_crying:

Dell told me that the mother board is the most expensive part of a computer.  My nephew is a computer tech, so he can probably fix it for me.

Does anyone know approximately how much a new mother board for a laptop is? Dell said it doesn't have to be a "Dell", just something compatible.

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi