Burning Chrome

Hardware ups and downs

For many months, my custom-built WinXP desktop has been giving me blue screens of death, and more recently, random restarts. Since I can't use it to build Mozilla anymore, I decided I might as well take it into the shop for repairs. The company that built it is closed on weekends (grrr), so I dropped it off at Fry's Electronics for a diagnostic.

Several days later, I spotted a computer deal that was pretty hard to beat: a Gateway GT5676 computer, 64-bit AMD processor...