What's your pet peeve in RL?

[Yygdrasil]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

Fixed. Word.

[cidbahamut]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

What did it turn out to be?

[Yygdrasil]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

Turns out it was a mix of funny-weird malfunctions with both my HD and the Video Card. He didn't explain it very well... but suffice to say it's all better now. thank god.

[cidbahamut]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

That sounds fishy.

[Yygdrasil]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

What matters is that it works now. He just started up the defrag and headed out the door a few minutes ago. I'll be getting home to a perfectly working PC once again.

[Raydeus]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

TL;DR One or more power, fan and/or SATA cables were loose because of the movement the rig was subjected to and Yggy panicked when the comp didn't start.


But it's all better now.

[cidbahamut]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

TL;DR One or more power, fan and/or SATA cables were loose because of the movement the rig was subjected to and Yggy panicked when the comp didn't start.


But it's all better now.

This sounds about right actually.

[Yygdrasil]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

I checked and re-checked all the connections. It wasn't a connectivity problem. Something screwed up the HDD itself. After he got it booted back up and running, FFXIV worked fine but Firefox, IE and Chrome wouldn't open. They kept force closing and erroring out. All 3 had to be uninstalled and he used my laptop to download the install files for firefox again to re-install it.

All in all... nothing major. I only panicked because in the 2 hours I fiddled with it last night, nothing worked. After consulting with a few people including CID, the resounding theory was that I had shorted out my mobo. With me stuck here at work and someone else opening up my PC, I always get scared. I don't like people in my PC when I'm not there to supervise.

[cidbahamut]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

I'm still not satisfied with the explanation of what the problem was. (lots of handwaving)

I'd back everything up tonight if I were you. Just in case.

[Raydeus]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

Btw, the one thing you do need to be very attentive to is the possibility of the CPU's heat sink to move out of position or even decouple from the proc. itself. And if the heatsink is too heavy and gets glued to the proc. by the thermal paste it can actually pull the proc. out of the socket and in the case of older processors even bend the little uh... legs the proc has.

Which can be pretty messy to fix.

Other than that it's usually loose cables (or cards) in one way or the other.

[Yygdrasil]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

I'm still not satisfied with the explanation of what the problem was. (lots of handwaving)

I'd back everything up tonight if I were you. Just in case.

I plan to. Although today did inspire me to upgrade my PC anyway. I'll back it up for now to be on the safe side while I casually stockpile new components.

I have to match a new Processor and Motherboard I like and think about whether or not I really truly need a second (high powered) video card. I do have 2 in there now... but the second one is crap and I have it hooked up to the second monitor to use exclusively for web browsing. It works out best that way since it allows the better one to focus 100% of it's attention on the game being played on the other screen.

[cidbahamut]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

weather

[Yygdrasil]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

Of all the grammar mistakes I've made in my life... that is the only one that I can't seem to shake. Every time... every time I type it, it comes out that way.

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Fixed.

[Taskmage]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

Bandwidth caps. I'm 17 GB from my monthly limit and the Diablo 3 beta client is 15 GB. The counter resets on monday. fml. Same phenomena lost me about a week and a half of free SWTOR.

[Jarre]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

I'm glad of having an uncapped internet service!