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pseydtonneOther than these episodes you're about to read, I feel fine. I came to the conclusion last night that all of my angst about everything comes from a simple fact. I have a broken heart and I need to let it heal. This will take time. I can't force it. I can't suddenly will myself to be over that. However, I can acknowledge the fact instead of wondering why I'm so intensely lonely. I'm lonely because I miss what I had but I did what I had to do. It doesn't sound wonderful, but that realization took all sorts of pressure off my soul Sunday night. I woke up Monday morning feeling happy and that's all I'd wanted.
So now,
I went to all the trouble of buying a different motherboard ($65) so that I could mount this beautiful, all-copper love festival of a heatsink on my nice CPU. Zalman specializes in very quiet heatsinks. When I first turned on the box after mounting the heatsink, I was amazed by the quietness. I wasn't certain the computer was even on! Wow!
I poked through the BIOS, got everything get up, and shut it down. Then I plugged in my hard drive and burner and booted up. Everything starts to detect -- and then the system shuts down very abruptly.
My first thought was "hmmm, Win2k doesn't like this mobo." So I tried to turn the box on again. No response. There is a green LED on the motherboard that tells you it's getting current but there is no other response. So I flip the switch on power supply and flip it back on again after the light fades out. I try again and get another abrupt shutdown.
I head into the BIOS. I'm getting high temperature readings from the BIOS's hardware monitor for the CPU and they keep going up. The Zalman has a speed control, so I crank it up. It levels for maybe forty seconds and goes up again. I floor the fan speed. It crashes. Keep in mind I'm running BIOS, which is not a CPU-intensive activity.
I take the Zalman off and put the Kingwin back on. This is not an ugly heatsink (all copper, wicked wicked shiny and polished) but it's a little louder than I want. Everything works again.
What the hoondang? Basta que no fuoma. Grrrrrrr!
The Zalman was making contact with the CPU but not enough. There is supposed to be a certain amount of pressure and I don't think it was getting it. Zalman gives you these tiny cardboard washers to put in the various places but I don't think I'll use half of them -- too much spacing.
Augh!
Couple this with buying a GameCube and finding out it's screwed up from the get-go. No matter which controller I used, I got at least a one-second delay. This made playing any kind of driving game impossible. I was so looking forward to playing Crazy Taxi (and Metroid, which isn't a driving game but it came free with the GC). Off to Sears tomorrow.
This concludes Dante's Spending Spree. I bought a few things this weekend (the Zalman I bought about a month ago but hadn't a way to mount it) and had enough grief that I'll be socking money into the savings account for a while.
-"at least she doesn't smoke"
So now,
I went to all the trouble of buying a different motherboard ($65) so that I could mount this beautiful, all-copper love festival of a heatsink on my nice CPU. Zalman specializes in very quiet heatsinks. When I first turned on the box after mounting the heatsink, I was amazed by the quietness. I wasn't certain the computer was even on! Wow!
I poked through the BIOS, got everything get up, and shut it down. Then I plugged in my hard drive and burner and booted up. Everything starts to detect -- and then the system shuts down very abruptly.
My first thought was "hmmm, Win2k doesn't like this mobo." So I tried to turn the box on again. No response. There is a green LED on the motherboard that tells you it's getting current but there is no other response. So I flip the switch on power supply and flip it back on again after the light fades out. I try again and get another abrupt shutdown.
I head into the BIOS. I'm getting high temperature readings from the BIOS's hardware monitor for the CPU and they keep going up. The Zalman has a speed control, so I crank it up. It levels for maybe forty seconds and goes up again. I floor the fan speed. It crashes. Keep in mind I'm running BIOS, which is not a CPU-intensive activity.
I take the Zalman off and put the Kingwin back on. This is not an ugly heatsink (all copper, wicked wicked shiny and polished) but it's a little louder than I want. Everything works again.
What the hoondang? Basta que no fuoma. Grrrrrrr!
The Zalman was making contact with the CPU but not enough. There is supposed to be a certain amount of pressure and I don't think it was getting it. Zalman gives you these tiny cardboard washers to put in the various places but I don't think I'll use half of them -- too much spacing.
Augh!
Couple this with buying a GameCube and finding out it's screwed up from the get-go. No matter which controller I used, I got at least a one-second delay. This made playing any kind of driving game impossible. I was so looking forward to playing Crazy Taxi (and Metroid, which isn't a driving game but it came free with the GC). Off to Sears tomorrow.
This concludes Dante's Spending Spree. I bought a few things this weekend (the Zalman I bought about a month ago but hadn't a way to mount it) and had enough grief that I'll be socking money into the savings account for a while.
-"at least she doesn't smoke"
