Interfaced - the trials of the computer age, part two
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Well, it did it again. This after having had another fan added and the case closed up (I sort of hate running closed-case, it makes it a stone-bitch to get to the innards if I need to upgrade, but the ventilation /does/ tend to work better with the side panels on..)
So we replaced the CPU chip.
Now it's working, after a hiccup with the BSoD (tm) - and /maybe/, just /maybe/, I can get back into stuff. Here's hoping, anyway.
The Great Hound Project is roaring away - Mom and Ladd just got home today with Shadi (Eshad el Durani, FCh, bla, blah, blah...) the first of /three/ affies. He is a six year old racing/coursing champ from a famous German kennel (Can't get 'em here, apparently... probably 'cause no one here cares much about field-testing their affies) they scored for peanuts. He looks like a nice hound - he's settling in very nicely so far (Although he's terrified Fetish already - the other two are lurking about in my room...) having decided it's a good idea to settle himself on the couch.
He came in, sniffed everything on the ground floor over, discovered the couch and after a moment of thought, made himself comfortable. Fortunately, animals are allowed on the furniture in this house.
Next week, it's the bitch puppies - and things will go cheerfully apeshit. *sigh* Oh well. At least while it's going apeshit, I don't have to /help/. I hope.
Not a hell of a lot else going on - aside from the car breaking down, /again/. This time, it popped the oil filter. No one noticed this (Even though it popped it /right/ in the driveway, and spewed pretty much all the oil out on the spot... this was not noticed. Oops.), and the ending result was that Andi wound up broken down on Hendricks Road. (He'd been on his way to Portland. *sigh*)
They got it dragged back, and Ladd says he'll have a look when he gets a chance, but no one really has any hopeful thoughts about it being fixable. Oh, there's a chance, but it's damn unlikely.
We're waiting for the third child of trouble. O.o
Well, it did it again. This after having had another fan added and the case closed up (I sort of hate running closed-case, it makes it a stone-bitch to get to the innards if I need to upgrade, but the ventilation /does/ tend to work better with the side panels on..)
So we replaced the CPU chip.
Now it's working, after a hiccup with the BSoD (tm) - and /maybe/, just /maybe/, I can get back into stuff. Here's hoping, anyway.
The Great Hound Project is roaring away - Mom and Ladd just got home today with Shadi (Eshad el Durani, FCh, bla, blah, blah...) the first of /three/ affies. He is a six year old racing/coursing champ from a famous German kennel (Can't get 'em here, apparently... probably 'cause no one here cares much about field-testing their affies) they scored for peanuts. He looks like a nice hound - he's settling in very nicely so far (Although he's terrified Fetish already - the other two are lurking about in my room...) having decided it's a good idea to settle himself on the couch.
He came in, sniffed everything on the ground floor over, discovered the couch and after a moment of thought, made himself comfortable. Fortunately, animals are allowed on the furniture in this house.
Next week, it's the bitch puppies - and things will go cheerfully apeshit. *sigh* Oh well. At least while it's going apeshit, I don't have to /help/. I hope.
Not a hell of a lot else going on - aside from the car breaking down, /again/. This time, it popped the oil filter. No one noticed this (Even though it popped it /right/ in the driveway, and spewed pretty much all the oil out on the spot... this was not noticed. Oops.), and the ending result was that Andi wound up broken down on Hendricks Road. (He'd been on his way to Portland. *sigh*)
They got it dragged back, and Ladd says he'll have a look when he gets a chance, but no one really has any hopeful thoughts about it being fixable. Oh, there's a chance, but it's damn unlikely.
We're waiting for the third child of trouble. O.o
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