Oh God My Face
Oh man, managed to get elbowed in the face at basketball last night; had to bench myself due to my eyes watering and a bit of dizziness. Now it's the next day and my face still hurts and blowing my nose is an absolute pain in the... schnozz. It wasn't even worth it - we lost by two points! :(
Anyways, the good news this morning is that the new PC is working now; turns out my resetting problem was due to the heat sink. I reseated it Sunday night, with some frustration, and it was starting up at last! Unfortunately, I did some minor damage to the CPU fan and so it's now quite loud. It works, though, and replacing just the fan is apparently cheap and easy.
So that lead to Monday, and that day's issue was my network card not resolving an IP address. Attempting to repair the problem with Windows just lead to stuff hanging, so I re-installed Windows and re-installed the drivers, and it still didn't work! So, in frustration, I decided to go the direct route in getting my files off my old comp. I moved my old PC off the desk where it was sitting next to the new beast, disconnected one of the two hard drives and after unplugging the DVD drive on the new PC plugged it in. Starting her up; and the network was working! Wasting no time, I got Bigpond installed and was finally online. So now the comp has internet, all my music and hopefully I'll still have internet when I reconnect my DVD drive tonight. If that's what is causing the problem, that's... retarded.
Anyways, got kickboxing through work today (not as cool as it sounds), going to see Die Hard 4.0 tonight with my brothers, and Maximo Park at Fowler's on the weekend. Should be a good week!
...As soon as I have some Panadol. Ouch.
Anyways, the good news this morning is that the new PC is working now; turns out my resetting problem was due to the heat sink. I reseated it Sunday night, with some frustration, and it was starting up at last! Unfortunately, I did some minor damage to the CPU fan and so it's now quite loud. It works, though, and replacing just the fan is apparently cheap and easy.
So that lead to Monday, and that day's issue was my network card not resolving an IP address. Attempting to repair the problem with Windows just lead to stuff hanging, so I re-installed Windows and re-installed the drivers, and it still didn't work! So, in frustration, I decided to go the direct route in getting my files off my old comp. I moved my old PC off the desk where it was sitting next to the new beast, disconnected one of the two hard drives and after unplugging the DVD drive on the new PC plugged it in. Starting her up; and the network was working! Wasting no time, I got Bigpond installed and was finally online. So now the comp has internet, all my music and hopefully I'll still have internet when I reconnect my DVD drive tonight. If that's what is causing the problem, that's... retarded.
Anyways, got kickboxing through work today (not as cool as it sounds), going to see Die Hard 4.0 tonight with my brothers, and Maximo Park at Fowler's on the weekend. Should be a good week!
...As soon as I have some Panadol. Ouch.