bye to the old machine

I knew this was going to happen.

Last weekend, I turned the desktop pc on. After several long beeps, it did not boot and the fan was on so, I powered it down. When I turned it on again after an hour, the fan ran but no post and no boot. I gave up.

Good thing that I already bought a laptop and my files are backed up.

I opened the tower today to remove the hard drive. I already unplugged the data and power cables from the hdd in this picture.

I'm going to sell the rest so I can at least get something out of it now. I already spent so much money fixing it these last 3 years.

One thing that I'm thinking about is my Win 8.1 license - what if I want to use it on a new machine?

A solution from the MS forums so far was that if you were to get the "not genuine" prompt after installing it on the new machine, you then call Support (call from the new computer, I believe), try to get a human being on the other line, convince them that the old machine is dead, that it's only running on the new one and that you're the owner. Then there's the issue of - are the steps the same if you're not in the US?

Makes no sense to worry about that now.

At first, I planned to test which component was faulty. It could be fun to learn how this thing works, hands-on. Shame I couldn't get things unplugged and what-not without asking for help. So much for a hands-on learning experience.