Nothing. Bleh.
I know I haven’t written much lately, but I’m kinda bleh-y. Crucial.com is still ignoring me. My friend Dave came & rebuilt my machine – basically, we ordered new everything other than hard & DVD drives. He guided (ok, told) me which components to buy cause he knows these things. Then he built me a new machine – we/okay, he had some problems: 1) apparently, the computer gods require blood when you’re building a machine and he had to be the sacrificial lamb 2) the motherboard didn’t fit in the old machine – but I had some spare machines in the garage so Dave used a jigsaw to cut something off one one of them (I don’t know what it is – this is highly technical stuff) and voila – everything fit. Well…mostly – I need to get an extension for the power supply cable to the DVD drive. Right now, it & the hard drive are sitting on the machine rather than in it. I don’t really care about the aesthetics though.
Other than that, I’ve been pretty stressed. Work stuff – things are all akimbo and I don’t know exactly how it’s going to shake out. I know in the big picture it will all be okay, but I don’t think I’m going to get exactly what I had hoped for and I’m frustrated. Also, I just don’t like being left hanging.
And things with the Tardy Girl have been generally good – we had a really nice time this weekend where we went out to Alki and went to the beach and had fish & chips & just relaxed. Because she’s been sick for so long, we haven’t really had a chance to do anything like that. But there’s still all kinds of drama and stuff going on in her life & she’s still very sick, which is stressful for both of us.
Net result = migraines, insomnia & other physical ailments that are none of your friggin’ business. Suffice it to say, I need to start meditating. Quick.
(Honestly, there’s nothing terrible going on – but good stress is still stress. I should probably watch the boobies & kittens video a few more times – see below.)
UPDATE – it’s been about 10 minutes and somehow I just watched my new motherboard spark & emit smoke (I’m on my laptop – that’s my desktop). I am cursed. I think I’m about ready for full-blown depression now. You’ll be able to reach me in my bed. Unless reaching for the phone (or laptop) is too stressful. Send soup.
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Wow, like what do you think it was this time?
Sounds like heat/cooling problems?
You always hear how they design the new cases to make the air flow cool the PC, so maybe your parts just needed more cooling than what they got in the ghetto modded case? You get a modern video card, a newish (last 5 years) CPU, and one or more HDDs and it can turn into a lot of heat. I haven't built a PC in ages, but you may need more than just the heat sink/fan on the CPU. Anyhow -- that sucks! Hopefully some of the parts are salvagable.
@Tim - it's definiting not a cooling issue. There's multiple fans + we never closed the box up - it was totally open, which is how I saw the spark. Dave, my hardware friend came over to look at it ("sometimes sparks aren't bad")and said it was just a bad card & bad luck. Sending it back today. Sigh.
Heh - "sometimes sparks aren't bad" - Gotta love a geek with street cred.
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