It’s been a terrible start for me…
The day before new year’s eve, my windows machine went to hell. All I did was flip SLI on. I usually run 3 monitors…the only way to code ;) , and when I want to play some counter strike, I flip SLI on which uses both video cards to power one input. Then when I’m done, flip it off and all my screens come right back. After a while of doing this, one day I had to restart everytime I turned SLI on, but not when I turned it off. Ok, I’ve run windows for a long time, I can handle reboots =) But that day, windows just quit…what can I say, it happens. Reformatting everything, reinstalling wamp, ide’s, all the stuff I really need to have, I had the bright idea to get all my windows updates before I started putting all my data back (at least I didn’t go thru all that). After quite some time of updates (and many reboots), I install update rollup 2 for media center…Bad move. Killed 4 or 5 programs that I could see right away, and all of a sudden didn’t recognize many of php extensions (not valid windows program, or something like that). The only extension that survived it was xmlrpc. I go to rollback the update, windows dies again…
After all that, my last attempt went off without a hitch and I’m back up and running…except for my games and a few things here and there. So that’s good, BUT, I had to run down to PC Club with a friend so I grab that extra hard drive since my linux server’s been running low on space. As soon as I install it, S M A R T tells me it’s a bad drive. I just take the whole box back down to pc club and after they’re tech takes a look, see’s the error a couple of times, the whole machine just stops posting…Ahhhh….I’m about tired of this now.
Thank G*d I keep all my data on 3 machines. All of you who call me paranoid, HA. *knocks on wood laptop doesn’t just crash outta no where*. Then again, most of the Really important stuff’s online anyway.
So that sucks, but now I’ve got everything back on 2 machines at least. Gotta get the linux box back up asap though, hope a simple power supply change fixs it up, but at this point it could be anything.
To top that off, Dylan’s machine crashed on New Year’s eve as well. His processor took a dump. Luckily he already had a nice new mo-board and AMD dual-core just waiting. Only problem, he’d planned on backing up his data that night…Oops. Not that big of a deal, since we don’t think there’s anything wrong with the drive, but we did have to run out and get another drive so he wouldn’t have to format everything on his existing drive. We get back, and replace everything with his new setup, that machine won’t post…no beepcodes, Nothing. We of course double checked everything, all the jumpers looked good. We messed with it for about a half-hour but it’s got to be a bad board, so after our share of f* bombs and enough frustration to drive anyone crazy, we dropped it.
That’s my nightmare, hope nobody else had this much trouble over New Years.
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