Computer death!
Last sunday, we had a power surge. The speakers popped, the lights brightened, and then the power went out for a second or two. When it came back on, so did the modem, the lights, the fan... but not my computer.
Uh oh.
Got on Ben's computer to talk to guitarbluesman for some tech support (hey, he does it professionally, so I felt compelled to run and tell him) and we tried all sorts of measures to convince the hard drive to spin up again and the motherboard to reset, but no dice. At 11:30pm I got on Richard's laptop and IMed gbjazzman with my plea, and after a chatroom with him and Pad, Matt offers to come over the very next morning, at 9am sharp, and do some surgery on Connor. I owe him a good christmas present. He requested payment was lunch, so I took him out to Stir Crazy, but damn, he got screwed on that deal!
He brought scionmattly over as well, so it was nice to see the both of them. After testing a bunch of parts in Ben's tower, we determined that my video card was fine (THANK GOD), my hard drive was fine (SWEET JESUS, THANK YOU), and the casualty list appeared to be... my CD-RW drive, my DVD-ROM drive, and my motherboard. :(
Wahhh.
A trip to CompUSA and $95 later (I know, I know, Newegg, but then I'd be computerless for three or four days, and need Matt up here again.) I had a new motherboard, and we found out that my processor is, in fact, still in working order. Yay! So Connor lives again. My surge protector is going in the fucking bin the second the new one gets here-- the new one coming with a lifetime, $75,000 'attached equipment' warrantee. Grr. I've shopped at Newegg for the rest of the parts, and hopefully they'll be here some time this weekend.
In other news, we're LANing it up from sunday-monday, hopefully with great success. We'll see.
Uh oh.
Got on Ben's computer to talk to guitarbluesman for some tech support (hey, he does it professionally, so I felt compelled to run and tell him) and we tried all sorts of measures to convince the hard drive to spin up again and the motherboard to reset, but no dice. At 11:30pm I got on Richard's laptop and IMed gbjazzman with my plea, and after a chatroom with him and Pad, Matt offers to come over the very next morning, at 9am sharp, and do some surgery on Connor. I owe him a good christmas present. He requested payment was lunch, so I took him out to Stir Crazy, but damn, he got screwed on that deal!
He brought scionmattly over as well, so it was nice to see the both of them. After testing a bunch of parts in Ben's tower, we determined that my video card was fine (THANK GOD), my hard drive was fine (SWEET JESUS, THANK YOU), and the casualty list appeared to be... my CD-RW drive, my DVD-ROM drive, and my motherboard. :(
Wahhh.
A trip to CompUSA and $95 later (I know, I know, Newegg, but then I'd be computerless for three or four days, and need Matt up here again.) I had a new motherboard, and we found out that my processor is, in fact, still in working order. Yay! So Connor lives again. My surge protector is going in the fucking bin the second the new one gets here-- the new one coming with a lifetime, $75,000 'attached equipment' warrantee. Grr. I've shopped at Newegg for the rest of the parts, and hopefully they'll be here some time this weekend.
In other news, we're LANing it up from sunday-monday, hopefully with great success. We'll see.