Pretty much here, without the cops...

Even if something crazy happens and the planet freaks out, some of us will inevitably survive. We're like cockroaches. Even worse really. We've spread over more of the earth than they have, plus into space.

Hell, it might even be fun to try and survive in a post-apocalyptic world. I'm damn good with old machines (my car is 23 years old and runs like new!), I can build and repair electronics in my sleep, I can manufacture my own ammunition (cast my own bullets, work up my own powder charges etc..), and that wife of mine is one helluva breeder (I give her one pop without birth control and she's prego  .. easy pregnancies, healthy babies, all boys so far too!).

Meh.. Either way, it'll all work out.

Well, it wouldn't be the first time a vaccine has had 'unforeseen consequences'. The smallpox vaccine, when it was first made, was distributed all over the world.

Instead of shipping tons of the vaccine to labs all over the world though, they shipped small vials and allowed local labs to grow more on site. One asshat doctor named Hilary Koprowski had a site in the congo. Normally, these local labs would collect kidneys from lower monkeys to produce tissue culture (in which to grow more live vaccine). Hilary Koprowski however didn't have access to monkeys there in the congo and instead of importing what he needed, he used the local chimp population instead. The high-order primates carried a virus that attacked their immune systems. This virus survived the culturing process of the vaccine and was injected into hundreds of thousands of local villagers when Koprowski began rounds of mandatory vaccinations on the local populace. Within a few months, the first cases of AIDs in humans were recorded in the local area.

The polio vaccine, and the dumb-ass piss-poor penny-pinching bullshit behavior of this Hilary Koprowski fucker is directly responsible for the introduction of AIDs into humans.

Trust doctors, but only to a point. It's part of their job to act like they know what they're doing. They're human and make mistakes too.. Except for Hilary Koprowski. He needs to be beaten to death with a blunt object for his maliciously negligent behavior.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OPV_AIDS_hypothesis

http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_2830.shtml

I know it sounds like just another bogus conspiracy theory. Generally I'm a skeptic about this kind of thing but there is just so much evidence to support this chain of events. Interviews have been done of the lab-workers there in the Congo. They all support that chimps were captured, butchered, and used to produce vaccine. Even early letters and documents from Koprowski himself freely admitted that he was using chimps. It was only after someone raised concerns of disease transmission did Koprowski clam up and deny everything. Of course the scientific community, who wants to keep people from being fearful of vaccinations, stood behind Koprowski and helped suppress any real investigation. When Koprowski dies after a long, rich life, I'm betting this support will evaporate and the truth will be allowed to come to the forefront. Maybe the mysteriously 'missing' samples of the batches he produced might show up so we can test and know for certain.

Hey thanks guys. I kinda wrote it for selfish reasons though. I figure I might live through more rounds if everybody knows the tricks ya know? 

Maybe shoulda left out the zombie tips though.. Hmm..

Updated first post. -coolz
Awesome! Thanks man!

SO THIS TOPIC IS OVER?

Bah! Even if he already bought a new system, the old one is still sitting there. If it can be fixed for cheap/free, well.. 2 working systems is better than one right?

A lotta machines don't come with beepers anymore (just like the occasionally still useful floppy drives). I guess the manufacturers don't figure the home user is going bother with troubleshooting and a professional tech can just plug one in as needed.

If you want to see if the system is salvageable you can strip down the board, leaving one stick of memory, processor (and fan), power and header connections, and an old PCI gfx card. Slap a monitor on the gfx cards port and fire it up. If it gives you a POST screen, the systems still good. If not, take it out with the trash.

Even if it's dead, you should certainly keep the hard drive, power supply, maybe even the memory and optical drives. You can use the old hard drive in your new system for additional storage or backups and the rest of the parts make great spares since they're pretty standard across modern computers. If the memory is the same type, you can upgrade your new machine further with it.

Did you try swapping out the gfx card? If the GPU dies, the bios will freak out and give an error code (usually beep pattern). Since that's where the problem started, thats the first thing that should be tested.

 
My god man, you've done one helluva turnaround in your demeanor. I'm not angry with you, or even pissy in the slightest. I have hosted and administered dozens of servers over the years and know all too well the potential damage that a loose-cannon admin can do to a community. Just trying to do the right thing for everybody here.