I give up!

[Tippon]

After pottering about with my media systems, I thought I’d get my main system tidied up and make sure that the fans on the watercooling were blowing the right way. There are two fans on the top of the case, but only one filter was getting dusty. I took the side panel off, used an incense stick to see where the smoke goes, and realised that one fan was sucking into the case instead of blowing out. I also had a spare fan attached to the top of the PSU panel that I realised wasn’t doing anything useful. So far, so simple.

I tok the graphics card and wifi card out to reach the screws, and once everything was done I thought I’d sort out my Linux pen drive while Windows was shut down. I unplugged all the hard drives, put the cards back, and booted from a live CD. Got everything working, albeit really slowly, and left it to update overnight. Happy days, everything’s going ok for a change! 😀

I got up in the morning, shut everything down, reconnected the hard drives and booted into my old drive to double check that it could be disconnected. Got everything off it so shut down, disconnected, and rebooted. Windows won’t load. Put everything back the way it was and tried starting again. Booted straight to the old drive. Got a Windows notification that a drive needs to be scanned for errors ( one of the handy notifications that doesn’t mention which drive or why ). Booted from a USB drive and scanned the disks, got an error on my new SSD and fixed it, so rebooted. Made sure it loaded from the new drive, and couldn’t get into Windows (black screen with the spinning circle). Reseated all the hardware and booted into the old drive – perfect. Boot to the new drive – same problem.

I’ve spent most of yesterday and today slowly going through all the available options and waiting for them to do their thing, then finding that nothing’s changed. The little bit of hair that I haven’t pulled out has gone grey, and an accidental glare at my coffee cup instead of the computer curdled the milk… 😛

I’m using the old drive to backup the new drive before I try a repair installation now, then I might throw the whole thing out the window.

So… How’s your bank holiday going? ?

[Drezha]

Sounds like fun!

I’ve spent the morning tidying up the garden somewhat and trying to remove the weeds from the front garden. A downer on the day is that the Delta flight we were supposed to be getting to Hawaii from LA in October for our honeymoon has been moved and now we either have to travel down to Heathrow and get an earlier flight, or travel the day before from Manchester via NYC and then down to LA and then onwards to Hawaii! Neither is ideal, but Virgin will be stumping up some money for the changes as we booked it via a package deal.

Then I’ve also been considering upgrading my computer monitor – I bought a new one not long ago, an Acer Nitro 27″ screen as it has dual HDMI and it replaced my Samsung C24F396 curved monitor but I’m not as impressed with it. The colours don’t seem as good and the display isn’t great. I imagine it’s due to the size of it and the resolution, but the pixels can be visible as well. Considering upgrading to either a 4K monitor, or getting a Dell Ultrasharp 27″ monitor to match my old iMac screen as that was good.

"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett

[Bob Williams]

Been down to my daughter’s house for a chat, turned into an all day yakfest! Gdaughter had the cheek to say that mum and granddad can both talk for England, wife had even more cheek to agree. ??

I luvs my daughter, we have the same SOH. I suppose we did laugh a lot, my ribs still hurt a bit.

As a bonus, I convinced her to ditch her krappy John Lewis ADSL and go for full cream proper Plusnet FTTC. Their village now has Fibre, goes past the end of her private road. I warned her that Plusnet will set up and then find she needs a new copper line from the cabinet, new BT socket and replacement for the old GPO connection bloc in the window.

When the Thought Police arrive at your door, think -
I'm out.

[Les.]

Those of you who are up top date on my various confusions will know I have two (almost) identical shuttles. One has a faster processor, and I have a GT620 (or 610) in one and a GT720 (I think) in the other.

The plan was to put the faster processor and the GT 720 in my original (bought new) shuttle.

After using my compressor to clean up all fans and finned coolers,  I cleaned off the processors and and carefully fitted everything in the wrong shuttle! Eventually I got everything in the correct machines, fitted new back up batteries and connected all the “stuff” (keyboard, mouse and screen etc.. It worked.

Next I tried my “best one”, and everything went OK, until I tried to open the CD to pop in my old “PCCheckit” CD to check that I actually had got the correct parts fitted. But it would not open! What a rigmarole followed, and eventually the only solution was to change over the two identical CD/DVD drives!

I started around 10:am, and finished at exactly 6:pm, something that should have been a couple of hours tops!

Now I need to get some real work done!

Les.

[PlaneMan]

For the last few days my phone has been acting odd. For a start it wouldn’t display the time and date when it’s locked, sometimes it would, sometimes it wouldn’t. It would also through up a message saying ‘don’t cover the screen’ when I was using it. Nothing to do but lock it and unlock it again.

Dawned on me about 30 minutes ago that the ambient light sensor must be dirty, probably the cream that I have to put on my hands 3 times a day. A quick clean and all is well again. For a while….

[keith with the teef]

@ Tippon. 🙂

Damn. it can be like that sometimes. Got the T shirt.

 

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