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That Lans

Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 11:22 am
by Delion
Is rad. <3 from the future dudeus.

Re: That Lans

Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 5:55 pm
by Lansiron
What.

What radness did I do? >_>

Edit: OH!

Thanks. :D

Re: That Lans

Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2009 7:46 am
by Nykkolaia
::ventures briefly out of the world of crazy pregnant lady-ness::

Happy Birthday, Lans <3

Re: That Lans

Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2009 12:59 pm
by Yva
Happy birfday Lans!

Re: That Lans

Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2009 1:19 pm
by Chrystenise
Yay, happy birthdays!

Re: That Lans

Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2009 2:47 pm
by Denne
Happy birthday!

Re: That Lans

Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2009 5:41 pm
by Israia
HAPPY BIRTHDAY <3

Re: That Lans

Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2009 6:59 pm
by Tarq
/beer

Re: That Lans

Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2009 9:58 pm
by Lansiron
Thanks a hell of a lot to all youse guys. <3

It's been a weird kind of year. But I'm coming out of it feeling like it keeps getting better.

Interesting story: As some of you know, my good computer exploded around midsummer. Since then, I've been scarce in WoW, mostly just on for raid nights, thanks to the fact that the older computer of mine is crap, and it's painful to try playing games on it (well, except for Touhou).

Fortunately, this is no longer a problem. My good computer is fixed, with a new hard drive, a legal copy of Windows 7 (there has to be some good karma there), around 2.25 TB of hard drive space (in science words, that means a metric fuckton), and a return to a chipset that is actually upgradeable. After this weekend, I'll probably have an actual presence in-game once again (leveling that goddamn Lansadin), so effing yay.

The interesting thing is what was actually wrong with it.

See, I thought it was the motherboard at first. Had it replaced--twice. Didn't work, but then it seemed likely that it was something else. Time being not-aplenty, I only had a few opportunities to try screwing around with other bits of hardware to see where the issue may lie. Power supply? Worked fine. CPU? Golden. RAM? Perfect. Video card? Pssh.

Only last week I actually found out what it was, when a friend of mine who's an IT professional (hired through payment of food) threw up his hands and tried the last thing anyone thought of: replacing the CPU fan.

It worked.

My CPU fan was the faulty part, and the motherboard refused to boot anything up unless it sensed some kind of cooling apparatus over the all-important processor.

Half a year without a decent computer because of a $15 piece of equipment.

The moral of the story: Anytime something breaks, check the stupidest part first.

Re: That Lans

Posted: Thu Dec 31, 2009 12:50 am
by Kuoshiro
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