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To: BirdDog who wrote (40536)	8/23/2001 9:38:21 PM
From: RR	Respond to of 65232

Thanks BirdDog. Well, I've had folks tell me not to put 2000 on it because they've had problems with 2000. Hum.... I'll have to check a little more now. Well, about my lap top, I better fess up. Besides, Mrs. RR won't be reading this. The lap top actually went on the blink when we were out in Colorado relaxing a few weeks ago and I spilled coffee on it while doing an RR Hammer. I was watching the market, jumped up, and coffee went everywhere. Yep, I did it. I thought that I'd only spilled a little bit on the computer itself. Didn't think anything of it at all. I cleaned it up but a few minutes later the lap top started acting funny and finally went ka-put. I found a local tech and he worked on that thing for a couple of days. Said I had a virus, but we'd just done a virus update an hour or so before the infamous coffee spill (shhhhhh....), so that didn't make sense. Anyway, several hundred bucks later, he got it limping along but not 100% as it only worked with an external keyboard and also I didn't have my bios card with me that he needed to do the necessary update after taking its guts out and firing it back up. When I got back home, the tech that builds my computers took a look at it and quickly reported to Mrs. RR that there was this "black gooie stuff" underneath the keyboard and looked like it had really messed things up. I blamed it on the kids and said "I didn't do it!" (shhhhhh...) So, I'm waiting on a new keyboard to get in. Again, thanks info about win2000. RR