My computer is still down for the count. I went out and got a USB keyboard for the tablet I'm using so at least I don't have to manually peck out every letter to type, but things are not looking good.

I get an error then a physical memory dump just after the windows logon screen. I tried booting from a windows CD to either reinstall, or repair the installation but I get another error after things load for a while, and I never get to the Windows setup screen. This pretty much makes me think the hard drive is fucked. How this happened, when it worked fine before I left, and sat there , not only shut off, but without power for a week, is a good question. So my thought now is get a new hard drive, swap out the old on, install windows, and then try setting up the old one as a slave drive in an attempt to save any data on it. I donno. pretty much sucks though.