I think I just killed my laptop on accident. I miswired my relay board and after plugging it in to my laptop, the laptop stopped working.

Words cannot express how angry and disappointed I am at myself right now. From now on all testing will be done on my super old Dell Inspiron. If that piece of crap dies, I don't care.

And twisting the knife just a bit further, I just lost 3 hours of code and it will take about 8 hours to get a new machine up. More so, what machine should I get. That laptop was the only machine I had that could handle the load I needed it to. Going to a store chances are won't give me a machine I want. Maybe a MacBook Pro? I do have 2 copies of Vista Ultimate just waiting to be unleashed. What is worse is my desktop is past End of life and needs to get replaced. that means I need to buy 2 high end systems back to back instead of my staggered new machine every 2 years (life span of 4 years per machine)

crap.