crazy-tiger Posted October 30, 2007 Share Posted October 30, 2007 Or maybe not... Couple weeks back, my PC kept crashing for not obvious reason... at least, none that were obvious until we caught the faint wiff of overheating electronics. Turns out the fan on my PSU had died and it was one of those that you couldn't replace without re-soldering most of the PSU. Cue the purchase of a new, more powerful PSU. (Power Supply Unit, for the non-tech minded out there... it sorts out where the power goes in your PC) Well, not a problem... I had a spare PSU from an old PC. Sure, it's not as powerful, but it'll do in a pinch... right? Nope... once we got that in, we remembered the graphics card wouldn't work as the PSU didn't give enough power to run it. Oh well, I has a spare graphics card too... one that came from the same PC the spare PSU came from, so we knew it worked. In it goes, bit of farting about with Window$ to get it working, and away we go... or not, as the case may be. Seems the time the card spent being stored in a drawer did a bit of damage, so it doesn't work properly. Of course, we didn't work that out until I'd formated my HDD... so around 200GB of files lost because the PC wouldn't stay booted long enough to transfer any of it. Now, during the course of all this, and with a nice, empty HDD, we decided to try an install of Linux... just to try it out and to see if it's the OS that's fucked everything. Well, the install went fine, Linux got installed, I got back online and I could only use the basic drivers since Nvidia's gone and fucked the graphics drivers to hell and back recently... so, no 3d applications or anything other than the barest of web surfing. After a boring few days, and a weekend where all my games were unavailable, the new PSU arrives... 30 minutes of sweating and grunting later, it's installed and my powerful(ish) graphics card is slotted in too. Now, all I need to do is get Windows running again... Oh dear... my usual method (using the OEM disk I got 3 years ago) isn't working... so the backup method (yeah, a pirate copy of the same damned OS) gets used. Then the firewall, anti-virus, Firefox, Email client, all that jazz. Took all day, but I'm back as should be, minus a crap load of porn, games, music and general crap I'd collected over the last year. Fast forward to Friday... I finally get around to re-installing LOTR:O, mainly due to the new update. (Houses! Must have one!!) So, 5 mins to install, 3 mins to download the patches/update, 5 mins to install that, run the program.... and it needs to download the patches/update I just installed! But, not at a nice high speed... but at the blistering speed of 0.5KB/s. (when you're used to speeds around 2000KB/s, it is incredibly slow...) It took until sunday morning to finish downloading and installing, only to crash when I tried running it. Still, it only crashed the once... it's working fine since then. Then there's this afternoon... Off I go shopping, listening to my mp3 player, as I do when I'm shopping alone. For some reason, it didn't sound right... mainly because the fucking headphone socket is totally fucked!! AAAAAAARGHHHHHH!!!!! Damn... I feel better now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astreja Posted October 30, 2007 Share Posted October 30, 2007 You haven't been pounding the MP3 player on the computer in cyberfrustration, have you, CT? That might explain the broken connection on the headphone jack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirac Posted October 30, 2007 Share Posted October 30, 2007 AAAAAAARGHHHHHH!!!!! Damn... I feel better now. YES!!! FANTASTIC!!! GREAT RANT!!!!!! DOESN'T IT FEEL GOOD TO SHOUT???????????! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRGH!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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