Phaeton Build UpdateAuthor: jawapro
Date: Wed 09/04/2008 12:19 AM
Well - tonight was much nicer than last night.
I’d been worrying and praying about getting my computer going all day at work - but I decided that I’d tackle things differently tonight.
First up - I took an hour and a half completely off to watch some telly, relax, and pack some more of my stuff up ready for the move. And it helped - I was feeling a lot better by the time I hit the pc.
That’s not all I did either. Instead of setting up Phaeton in place of my current pc as I'd done last night, I dug out a second screen for it, and restored Jades Fire (current PC) to it’s customary place. That meant it didn’t feel so bad as I had a pc going anyway - and had access to my music collection etc. Made things feel much more normal - even thanks to the comforting humm that was missing this morning with no pcs at all going.
Unfortunately my PC is dying, which is why I’m building Phaeton. So it was only able to play a video I watched while I worked on phaeton. I wanted to log onto MSN chat to try and catch some of my friends, but JadesFire isnt able to do both at once anymore - so I had to enlist the support of Jade (my laptop) for that. So I had 2 running PCs, and one I’m working on.
^ Just a shot of my TV working as a second monitor. Great for watching movies.
Well - I seem to have found the major culprit for my problems last night. It seems this is a dodgey stick of RAM. I tried installing Windows with all 4 sticks of RAM in different combinations - and it always failed when this one was in, and succeeded when it wasn’t.
So I’m currently running on 3Gs instead of 4 - but I’m running!
Not 100% sure that everything is right though - I got a blue screen after a while playing CnC3 as a test. Not sure what caused that one - but I’ll get some decent ram testing software next time and see what that says.
Might not be 100% yet, but I feel a lot better about it all tonight. I might even get some more sleep this time.
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