So...I'm having a fun afternoon....

Got home today to find I am unable to log into skype, getting an error that just says 'unable to connect' whenever I attempt to connect to either of my accounts. My Internet connection is strong and as far as I can tell there is nothing else out of the ordinary, or was...

I say that because my next port of call was to try and reinstall skype, which I did and it seemed to work fine, except the same error was coming up when trying to connect to my account. So, you know what they say, try switching it off and on again, so I did, I tried restarting my laptop, which was fine, until it got to the switching back on bit.

My laptop failed to boot when I switched it back on. This I nothing new, it has happened several times when the computer has been on of a long period, the problem was this time it didn't work the second time I tried booting either... or the third... (continued in part two due to journal character limit)