Phaeton Recovers.Author: jawapro
Date: Wed 02/07/2008 09:22 PM
Well - I'm still not sure what was wrong - but Phaeton (my Computer) seems to be recovering from his mystery illness.
A week ago - Phaeton was being very reliable. It hadnt been rebooted for about a week and was going strong.
A week ago my cousin Klutz came to visit (which was good) and desided to sleep in the computer room instead of the lounge room (which was also good, as he has a habit of sleeping in the nude and hanging his backside out of the covers - remember, we traveled together for 2 weeks from Mount Isa to Tassie so I know what I'm talking about).
For some reason - sharing a room with Klutz offended Phaeton. He started getting less reliable, and crashing once a day or so.
The longer Klutz stayed - the worse it got. Maybe Phaeton is allergic...
After Klutz left, the problems persisted. I could turn Phaeton on, windows would boot and hang around for a few minutes and then the machine would crash.
I dont mean like a windows crash - more akin to shutting down due to over-heating.
So I pulled Phaeton out from his home and relocated him to the lounge room to investigate and see if any fans were playing up or anything (while watching my new TV).
There was nothing wrong with the fans I could see - so I plugged it together in the lounge room with a spare monitor and spare keyboards and things. No problems at all - ran all night and the following day perfectly.
So I started re-introducing things to see if they caused the error. I hooked it back up to the network - no issues. I used the original monitor and keyboard - no issues.
I have now moved it back to it's home under the desk - with all the original gear - and it's running fine.
Maybe it just needed a holiday and a chance to watch tv to overcome the ordeal of sharing a room with Klutz.
Or maybe it was jealous of Jade'sFire (my old PC) which is currently hooked up to my TV and operating as a media centre.
Either way - Phaeton seems to have gotten over it for now.
Having said all this - it will probably crash again in a minute...
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