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That Lans

Postby Delion » Tue Dec 29, 2009 11:22 am

Is rad. <3 from the future dudeus.
<Fells> I SEE YOU DELIPON
<Fells> YOU'RE A KLITTY

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Re: That Lans

Postby Lansiron » Tue Dec 29, 2009 5:55 pm

What.

What radness did I do? >_>

Edit: OH!

Thanks. :D

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Re: That Lans

Postby Nykkolaia » Wed Dec 30, 2009 7:46 am

::ventures briefly out of the world of crazy pregnant lady-ness::

Happy Birthday, Lans <3
"It ain't about how hard you can hit, but how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward; how much you can take and keep moving forward." ['Rocky Balboa']

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Re: That Lans

Postby Yva » Wed Dec 30, 2009 12:59 pm

Happy birfday Lans!
So if you meet me have some courtesy, have some sympathy and some taste. Use all your well-learned politesse or I'll lay your soul to waste.

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Re: That Lans

Postby Chrystenise » Wed Dec 30, 2009 1:19 pm

Yay, happy birthdays!

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Re: That Lans

Postby Denne » Wed Dec 30, 2009 2:47 pm

Happy birthday!

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Re: That Lans

Postby Israia » Wed Dec 30, 2009 5:41 pm

HAPPY BIRTHDAY <3

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Re: That Lans

Postby Tarq » Wed Dec 30, 2009 6:59 pm

/beer
Now hang me by this golden noose
'Cause I never been nothin' but your golden goose
Silver tongue don't fail me now
And I'll make my way back to you somehow

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Re: That Lans

Postby Lansiron » Wed Dec 30, 2009 9:58 pm

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.

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Re: That Lans

Postby Kuoshiro » Thu Dec 31, 2009 12:50 am

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