computer stuff, etc
2003-04-22 ~ 3:21 a.m.

disregard the time...it is wrong.

i know that it is wrong because i took a random guess when i finally got my baby booted.

scroll down if you are not interested in my technical problems. did i say problems?

see, we are having issues...no, strike that...there are motherfucking 'events' in my area.

and the root of all? the true nastiness behind it all?

power supply?

ram?

cpu?

overheating?

because the problem is tricky. but logic tells me it has to be one of those things. here is why.

the computer just randomly shuts itself down. especially when i am running more than one program. the tricky part is that it won't come back on. it has to sit and sulk and be pissy (lights are sometimes good and the fans spins with no hdd activity and no post) for anywhere between 5 minutes to a few hours...but it is doing it all the time.

every time i start it it.

and you know the real bitch of it?

i don't think it is the psu, the ram or overheating...

i think it is fucking xp.

see...i didn't install sp1...no need to be stupid, afterall. but still...

i had no hardware issues until the major crash i am still crawling around in wires and goo from. the one that occurred immediately following a rogue little update my baby decided to need without asking me about...

all this means is that i am backing her up and taking her down. my decision has been reached.

because while logic tells me hardware is faltering...my gut tells me this is all bugged software.

besides...do you have any idea how fast my baby will run 98? now, if linux will get a few more drivers...i would be set.

oh yeah...yank your cmos battery and leave it out and edit your registry if you ever see this problem. it will at least get you to your knees.

so in effect, i am not dead...merely about to disentegrate and be born anew...

but if anyone has an extra 400 watt psu...that is just being used a paperweight or something...well yeah.

i think i am done with the computer stuff now...i needed to vent and i am just not the fan of newsgroups and boards i once was.

i'm not technical...anymore.

so i am buying some dvd-rw media and some compressed air tomorrow.

i have a lot of stuff to work on.

oh...

yeah, i think i may have gotten power to one of my older boards but i need a case that will support its power button arrangement. it really is a trooper of a board. anybody got a case? maybe i should run it out of a case? haha!

and so...when i flatten this little hummer, i am going to go ahead and install the little 3 gig and get raid back in place. the only real issue is software...but i think i shall re-emerge much leaner. i got a lot of shit i never use.

all of this means i need to do some counting of my funds. i need my share of bills and living money and rent...and i am pretty sure it just won't add up...again.

but wait!!! it did, it did!! just barely...and only with being little mouse's housekeeper...but it adds up!!

nothing left over and i am trimming the ends...but i can do this. please, no major catastrophes for a while. do i need to specify what "a while" means to fate/god/goddess/politically correct deity of your choosing?

how about...for at least a few years?

speaking of...above...the mouse came to see me! i was so excited and so glad to see her. to just sit and talk and be. to catch up on some things and see her smile. and then hester came in and that was cool. she ate her ravioli and we chatted. then emer came in, hester left and my mom called...all at once. emer and i smoked the monkey and i watched as they both vented about work and realized how small the world sometimes is. and i wondered then, in that moment, about chance. and what are the chances, really? who would have ever though? then my girl called from her outings and arrived later with food.

we watched the the mr.personality show the way people look at car wrecks.

all in all, i am jumbled...and i really wasn't kidding at all about keeping the crazy at bay...

but i guess it doesn't help much when i think my crazy is pathetic. i really need to superglue the "crazy as a seasoning" perspective to my thought patterns.

speaking of which, i need to get ahold of doc...that is so long overdue. and i sure could use it...

what with the trip home and the money and the family and the hundreds of dead cats and the fact that it was cloudy...so i did not see me stars.

in other news, i don't mean to be so testy and so pissy...i am feeling pent up and i can't place the cause. and now that my granddaughter flow has visited i am sure it can only get worse...oh dear.

i apologize in advance.

did i mention that the fact that the blue room is no longer the blue room pisses me off? that is the bedroom in my grandmother's house, where my parents live...because they burned our house down?

want to know something rather funny?

i came in here to look up a walkthrough on a game i am playing....and have been sitting here doing computer shit for almost 3 hours.

i just get lost.

i need to go to bed...but first i need to find the screws for my psu. ...which could be difficult...

have a good night...day...whatever.

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