Seems to be that my beastie is booting fine, but she just can't decide which graphics card to rely on.

The onboard graphics are messing up my NVIDIA so that 9/10 times the computer boots sending video to the wrong port. Updating drivers seems to have made the problem more of a pain. How do I disable my onboard graphics?

So, I unplugged everything, and turned the computer on with the bare minimum (per Alpha and Kent's advice).

I haven't had problems turning the computer on at all, but rather problems with the peripherals not responding, so the whirring of fans and lack of beeping told me nothing new.

Powered down, waiting a minute, and plugged my monitor in. ( Read more... )

-Built new computer ( Read more... )

Steve, who is building a computer for/with me, just spent the last hour telling me about capacitors, diodes, south and north bridges, and other things on a motherboard ( Read more... )

R2D2 fully motorized HD video projector for all your movie, gaming, iPod, USB, digital camera, and otherwise orgasmically nerdy needs.

God, technology is fucking brilliant. I mean, R2D2 might not cure cancer (yet), but robotics have come a long way.

Squee.

Here are some I should really read and/or add to my collection for later referencing ( Read more... )

Church: Oh, this is not gonna work out well for us.
Tucker: Dude, are you kidding? We finally have two girls on our team! You know what that means!
Church: Tucker, I know what you're thinking, and it's not gonna happen.
Tucker: Oh, why not?
Church: Because girls can't share anything. Not even an apartment. Every time girls live together, within six ( Read more... )

Along with socially ignorant. I'm not sure if there have been more lately, or just grating on me more. I've been really easily irritated lately.

Now that I've finally got my PS2 working (I had to return one, and then my power cord didn't work and I had to use another one of those too), I'm playing Dark Alliance. Yep, I bought that. I'm a fucking ( Read more... )

"I extended an offer to your friend for you all to come back to my place and play Rock Band."
"See, if you would've said Guitar Hero 3 or DDR, you might have sold me."

I forgot until now that this exchange had even taken place.

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