Two 1 TB WD1001FALS: Way the fuck more than they would have costed back in February. (But I saved $2.40 on the new cables I ordered with them!) Seriously, that's like a quarter of what my still-able-to-play-new-games-on-full-settings computer cost back in 2008 ( Read more... )

My computer started getting occasional bluescreens last week. What little I could decipher from their messages in the event log (goddamn, those things are cryptic) suggested it was a driver issue. Since 'Do you have the latest drivers for everything in your house?' is the first question people ask when you go to tech support anyway, I started ( Read more... )

Okay, I've had enough of Sprint's shenanigans making my internet nigh-useless every other week, so it'll have to be Charter. What do I need to know about getting a router?

Mostly for my own reference in case I do something stupid like put my copy of this list on the disk I'm going to be reformatting. You'd better be worth it, Windows 7. Give me the XP emulation and Unix command line utilities, that's all I ask. Anything past that is bonus.

BEFORE REFORMATCreate backup directory on F ( Read more... )

The updated ATI drivers that made my monitor shut off for 90 minutes also made it so Bloodlines can't run. Again. I'd try rolling the drivers back, but as badly as they fucked up on their way in, I'm half afraid that they'll brick my system on the way out.

I bought it through Steam, but... the game has troubles with Vista, and they seemed un-fixable when coupled with the fact that Steam uses weird installations. It also doesn't like how much RAM I have, so that was another hack that was needed. Between the pile of stuff that needed changed, I spent a few hours and wasn't able to get it working ( Read more... )

The new system locks up and crashes a lot more. City of Heroes crashed to desktop once. Fallout's locked up to where I needed to kill the process twice, crashed to desktop once, and completely locked up my entire computer to where I needed to reboot once. The last time I needed to force a reboot on my old computer was... ... ... probably at ( Read more... )

I've been looking around to try figuring out what anti-virus protection I should get for my new computer, since the license on the McAfee suite I've been using expired about two years ago.

... I have yet to find one that doesn't have a pile of user reviews somewhere saying "this anti-virus program corrupted my hard drive and killed my dog and I ( Read more... )

Sometimes when a game says "Your CPU is not supported. You may continue, but the game could crash." that means that you should just not run the game.

Or else it will instantly shut down your computer the second you click a button.

Looking back through my Event log, I found this recorded three days ago ( Read more... )