Are we having any fun yet?

I know I am. Not.

Yesterday my firewall started acting a little funky. Well, a lot funky. It kept dropping with an error, and asking if I wanted to restart it. I rebooted a couple of times, it was still funky. Since I hade a full copy of Norton Internet Security here, I uninstalled the ZoneAlarm (which I had never had a problem with before, and I've run it for about 3 years) and threw in the Norton Disk. Things got ugly from there, with the computer freezing for long periods of time, I'm talking like 20 minutes. I was starting to think I had a hardware issue. So this morning I dropped the hard drive in another machine as a slave drive, and everything seemed to be working OK. I didn't have another machine that uses the same kind of RAM, so I ran it to a local shop to get tested. It came back fine. So I took the machine in for a full diagnostic. We shall see. I think maybe the e-Trust antivirus may have caused a problem for the Norton installation.

So then, since Terri's machine was having some issues, I swapped it for my spare machine, planning to put the hard drive in as a slave drive so she didn't lose any data. Great idea, slightly faster processor, twice the RAM, should work great. But it wouldn't read the hard drive. Took me the better part of the afternoon to get it to read the original drive again, finally got into the CMOS, and then got it to read the slave drive too! It worked out but it took me a long time to make it happen.

Then I pulled the laptop and got caught up on my classwork. So now it's tomorrow, and I'm going to bed!