Thursday, December 16, 2004

A dingo has stolen my baby!

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You would not believe how pissed off I was...oh, a scant two hours ago. Actually, it began last night at around 7pm, but let me try and order this... My mum wanted to go on the computer, so she could read her emails and stuff. Anyway, I'm out in the Lounge room watching...the news, or something. Anyway, I hear my mum say "What on earth is that noise?" I come into the bedroom and my mum is looking around. There is this terrible droning, whirring kind of noise. Pretty loud too. It sounded similar to... a whippersnipper on neutral. You know what I mean? Anyway, I listen around...and its coming from my computer. My mum freaks right out [lol] when she realises this, and tells me to turn off the computer. In her mind, when stuff makes weird sounds, you turn it off and don't touch it. Like that'd ever get people anywhere, lol. Anyway, I... wasn't sure what it could be, so I restarted my computer. Hardware monitor found a problem. Of some sort. Anyway, that meant jackshit to me [aside from the fact that temperature ranges were in the red for something ;)] so I shut down my compuyter, and then my mum forbade me from doing anything with it that night. So, I unplugged everything, pulled it all out and vacuumed behind it. I thought it was necessary, but also I'd been meaning to do it for a long time, as well as organise all the cords behind it. Anyway, this morning from 6:15 until 6:55 I'm tying cords, and plugging it all back in. Once I finished doing that, I press the Power button and that same droning starts again. I turned it off right away. According to my mum, I was in a foul mood all morning. I was looking at a dreadfully boring holidays. No games, no music, no OB, no mO, no email, no MSN. No nothing, basically. Anyway, when my mum left for work I decided to fiddle around again [after being warned not to short-out the house, burn it down or blow it up]. Anyway, I looked at stuff for a while, and then decided maybe it was my CPU in danger? So, I pulled off the cover [second time I've done this with any computer, and the first computer I did it with was old, not mine, and broken anwyay]. I plugged it back in and turned it on. The fan went, but that sound was still there. So, I decided to try and take the fan+cover off the CPU block to try and get out the dust behind it. I had to drag out the Power Supply to get to it though. And to do that, I had to move the CD drive. And to do that I needed to prise the front off of my computer. So, I did that, and left my CD drive half hanging out...enough room to get the Power Supply out. I then unscrewed the fan and pulled it out, vacuumed behind it [on the block]. Pretty thick with dust. Screwed the fan back on, and just plugged the power cord into the Power Supply [which was sitting on the floor next to my computer at that stage, lol]. Still the same damn noise. More swearing from my direction. Then I listen closer...and discover, that my video-card is actually making the droning. In short, I have now got my video-card sitting on the desk next to me, and my video-cord plugged into my old video card [thankfully it is inbuilt on the motherboard]. And no cover on my computer. Front or side. But it works. And the holidays are looking better....but, in all likelihood, no games. Still. Something is better than nothing. I was gonna update about my pissed-offedness about fucking around with my LSN design, and how Alan didn't like it. But, I shall save that for another day :p Time to finish that homosexuality thread post I started last night... [I think I use the word 'anyway' too much...]

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