I’ve had some problems with my desktop for the last few weeks. After a lot of troubleshooting, talking with others, and some searching on the internet, I came to the conclusion I had a power problem. I ordered a new power supply, turned it on, and…nothing. So I went to Altex yesterday.
Altex used to be an electronics warehouse. They always had rows and rows of transitors, resistor, diodes, switches, and other things I don’t comprehend. They are now pretty much a computer component shop.
I wanted a new motherboard. They have one that will fit in my case. For about $260 I can have a virtually new computer. Unfortunately, they didn’t have a processor to fit that board yesterday. So, I got a new battery, they cleaned up my processor and put some new heat sink paste on it, and I’m back in business temporarily. Next weekend, I’ll have a new board, with LAN and sound embedded, four USB2.0 ports (instead of the 2 USB1.0 I’ve got), and a 1.8GHz processor instead of the 433MHz I’ve got now.
Of course, in the troubleshooting mode I reformatted my hard drive and have spent the day reinstalling everything, hoping it doesn’t crash again in the interim.
Something interesting has happened in the computer world. All the new motherboards are colorful. Memory sticks can be cooled individually with various colors of sheaths, there are all kinds of lights to put inside the unit. And these new cases have clear sides. I would guess, although I didn’t ask, that the lights can all be synchronized to music or game sounds. Much more interesting than the campaign.
And a 3-1/2 inch floppy drive now costs fifteen bucks.
Another interesting thing happened on my site Friday. I checked the sitemeter and found 182 visitors in one hour. All from Technorati. All from a listing for Neal Boortz’ site. In other words, these 250+ people went to Technorati, looked to see who linked to Boortz, Bunker Mulligan was at the top of the list, so they checked the site. Why that chain of events? Rammer, you know all things geeky. I’m just a quasi-geek, and this makes no sense to me.
I recently upgraded my computer as well. Interestingly, about 6 hours after I put in my order the monitor for my main computer decided to slowly give up the ghost fading to a greenish color.
BTW, spectra will return in some form, lost hosting rather abruptly and I’m looking for other alternatives right now.
Comment by John — August 1, 2004 @ 4:50 pm
Check with rammer (BlogO’Ram) about viper. I’m on PowerWeb (powweb.com).
I was wondering where you went!
Comment by Bunker — August 1, 2004 @ 5:59 pm
433MHz? You’re a very patient man! I just bought a new computer about 2 months ago. I needed a faster machine with more memory. Actually, I need more memory than I have on new computer. My problem is that I want things to work at the speed of thought.
Comment by La Shawn — August 2, 2004 @ 9:40 am
433MHz is far faster than I think! Like I said, I can barely tie my own shoes.
Comment by Bunker — August 2, 2004 @ 9:42 am