OT: Well anything for a little traffic

[Fairlight]

When asked his whereabouts on Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 09:30:06PM -0400,
John Esak took the fifth, drank it, and then slurred:
> 
> <Fairlite responded... yup, no fpmail here either...>
> 
> Good, I'm glad it's just a lull in the ardent thoughts, viewpoints and
> concerns of the usual rabble here.  Where did everybody go, it's only
> Thursday? :-)

Is there another holiday coming up Monday that I've forgotten?  :)

> Meanwhile, since the place is empty of messages... Did you get your machine
> fixed yet?

Believe so, yes thanks.  

A little less than a week ago, the system had Win2K reporting that the CPU
was misreporting its speed.  I fixed that by rewriting the NVRAM from
inside the BIOS.  More like fixed a symptom.

Then today, it just plain powered down.  We restarted it, it went about
5-10min, and it died again.  Then it wouldn't fire up at all--the power
light would just flash and it wouldn't do anything.  Left it a few, it came
up.  We're looking at the BIOS indicators...104F on the CPU, not too bad.
3300+rpm on the CPU fan, 2600+ on the chassis fan, okay, they're spinning.
And it just shuts itself down while we're in the middle of that.

Got a new power supply today...480-watt with dual UV LED fans.  The thing
runs quieter, about 20F cooler from the feel of both the case and the area
in back of the case, and it's been chugging away for about 4.5 hours now. 

I won't call it fixed until it's been up 24-72hrs without incident, but it
-appears- to be fixed.

Interestingly, given what we have in it, the tech at the shop recommended
at 350-watt minimum.  I wanted 450 to be safe in case I add anything, but
that was like $79, but they had a special on this one with two fans with
the funky lighting for $55.  So I said fine, go for it.  :)  

I'm -guessing- (based largely on talking to someone else) that when we
added the second HD, we started taxing the original 300-watt power supply,
and it ran warmer, entropy increases, and the thing just fried itself
eventually.  Kaput.  

New one seems to be working just fine so far, but I'm paranoid enough that
I won't fully trust it for a few days to a week.  Probably after 72hrs
without incident.

It's good to have it back!  :)  And now it emits a purple glow behind it
with those weird UV-LED lighted fans.  *laugh*  Oh boy.  :)

Thanks for asking!

mark->
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