Geekery V.1.2.1.6

[greatbear]

A quick post from the resurrected studio/'main' computer while in the midst of repairs and upgrades. I tore it down and replaced several blown capacitors on the (now obsolete) motherboard. A blast with the air compressor and a quick reassembly to see if it fixed the BSODs and flaky operation, or killed it for good. So far, so good. So, the next steps are a replacement of the coolant (it's watercooled), a replacement hard drive for the failed D: drive, and a swap of the video card. In the meantime I will let it cook overnight to sweat out the repairs and see if they hold (and to finish some Bittorrent, ahem, 'goodies'). It's good to have my beast back. Just dont let on to it that a replacement monster is currently in my lab being born.

I have a huge pile of CDs to burn, others to rip into the library array and need to update my iPod as well.

Beware, as there will be more upcoming geekery posts as conditions here warrant.

Comments

[ciddyguy.livejournal.com]

OMG, you put me to shame and I built my current box initially in 2001, but did a virtual overahul of it last fall.

[greatbearmd.livejournal.com]

I have one PC I built back in 2000 that weighs more than one of my ex's (the PC weighs 157 pounds, he was only 150)!

[ciddyguy.livejournal.com]

Well, I have a "run of the mill" 2G celeron box now but intend to swap the processor out for the 2.8 something G P4 processor when I can afford to.

I intend edit video with it when I can find a decent converter program for cheap that'll convert DVD footage to AVI as I currently have an older 8MM video camera and dump to DVD via a stand alone DVD recorder in the living room.

[ciddyguy.livejournal.com]

btw, I currently weight around 154Lbs!