Man, I've had to find out how reliant on my laptop I've become the hard way. Last week it was having trouble booting up. It would startup ok and then just kinda cold hard freeze. "Hmmm..." I thought. perhaps it was some spyware/virus. Nope Clean. Tried doing some wizardry with services at startup and the like...didn't help. More headscratching...I noticed that after it froze and I tried to restart, it wouldn't start at all and just have the fan going full blast and a couple of the LEDs lit up. I tried looking what this meant on HP's support site. Man was that a big mistake. If you think HP's in trouble, just look at their website. They can barely figure out a common font size let alone how to spy on someone properly. Seriously, I couldn't find a single LED error code reference anywhere. Talk about lame.

Anyway, I finally brought it into our awesome support dudes. These guys tear the machine apart and notice there is a small rectangle of crud that has managed to collect in the fan system. Hence...laptop tofu.

Now that the machine has a new motherboard and has been de-tofu'd, we're up and running again. Phew...that's better; life was rough without my little electronical sidekick for a week...