Wednesday, October 17, 2007

IT LIVES!!!!! *evil laugh*

Things of mine to see:

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Kripto Lives! Though he is some sort of amalgamation of parts from three complete computers, he is up and running as I type on him. Here's the rundown of the parts:

Graphics: ATI Radeon X1300 256MB (Borrowed from \\Bob)
Mobo: ABit KN9-SLI (New)
Processor: AMD Athlon 64x2 5200+ 2.6GHz (New)
Hard Disk: Western Digital SATA Caviar 160GB (New)
Case: Some expensive thing... (Borrowed from \\Angela)
Memory: Mushkin 2GB set (New)
Input: Logitech Wireless set (Borrowed from \\Main)
Power Supply: ???? (Borrowed from \\Main, who is borrowing one from \\Angela)
Add-On-Cards: USB (Borrowed from \\Angela), wireless G adapter (Borrowed from \\Angela)

In case you can't tell, \\Angela is out of commission for a while. She's been gutted and is lying on the system shelf of the upstairs computer desk.

Installing the parts was not an experience I care to repeat, but it went a little smoother than I had thought to be the worst. It took me three hours to gather the tools and the missing parts, put all the components in the right places, and get the connectors for USB, audio and FireWire right. WAYYY too long, considering I've done this before in A+ and took less than 15 minutes. (I think I took longer to tear the system down than I did to build it up again.)

Anyways, now that I'm done bragging about Kripto for now, lets talk school. My networking teacher was invited to bring several students to a conference about tech mobility. I was among her few who were chosen to attend. There was only a few requirements that were fairly standard. Get your parents and all your teachers to sign the permission slip, and be passing all your classes. There's only one problem with that: I'M FAILING ENGLISH because there is only one grade so far this quarter, and it was a test over that freaking Scarlet Letter book which I can't stand. The only other major grade going into the book is the final test, a theme analysis on the aforementioned book. Needless to say, I failed that, so I'm afraid that I won't be able to go. That's very upsetting to me because I really would like to go. It's not only a day away from school for technology, but it's a great learning experience because I know next to nothing about this sort of thing. English class just drives me crazy...

Now, bragging about my computer again, how can you not just love it? It's just that awesome that you have to. After all, it is a fruit of my blood and frustration, mostly frustration, though. (Both before the parts got here, and after as I was putting it together. The blood is because the case cut me on the back of my thumb.)

But the cables for front panel IO were driving me crazy. You see, the last computer that was in that case had really screwy front panel connections. This motherboard has standard connections, so I had to re-rewire all the cables again just to make them work with this case. It sucks because the colors were all the same and I'd start reading the wrong diagram and be wiring the headphone port like one of the USB ports. Ugh.

I'm just glad I have as much of my own computer as I do. :)

*howls*

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