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Jul. 11th, 2004 09:00 pmFilched from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
zytx, as I try to catch up...
... and this one got filched fromlys1022...
That taken care of...
Megan's father's computer, or rather what's LEFT of his computer, is now sitting in my living room. Seventeen and a half hours of work, while installing the LAST of the bits that needed ... and there was a fat *CRACK* of suddenly freed current, and then the tower was dead and lifeless, and the monitor'd gone to a 'no signal' status. A bit of prodding proved conclusively that the aging 230w PSU... with a 1994 manufacture date, meaning it didn't owe anyone a damned thing... had blown. I passed the information along, and after a few moments agreed to go chase down another PSU the next morning (as it was 1:45 in the am). I went to bed wondering just how much damage the burnout had caused. Crawled out of bed this morning, poured coffee and thyroid meds down my throat, and went questing for a power supply in a slightly more functional state.
Seventy dollars later, I had a shiny new 400w PSU, and settled down with some of the diagnostic software I had. Processor checked out, memory showed no fault, CDROM drive was functional... but both of the drives were coming up with massive seek errors. Um. *sigh* So after all that work, everything gets blown to hell on the last step. I'll be building up the remaining Slot A Athlon 650 I have here and shipping the damned thing to him. Being home, with access to my parts bins/stacks/boxen/piles, there's no way in hell I'm going to put that kind of effort into a Socket 7 Pentium class machine. But I'm seriously fried as a result. Fortunately, the old man was standing in the hallway when the old PSU blew... and knew enough to know that that was 'a very bad thing'.
*rubs her temples* Okay. Time to change into something more comfy, have a smoke and a soda, then fire up FireChat and Savitar and see what kind of trouble I can cause.
zytx, as I try to catch up...... and this one got filched from
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That taken care of...
Megan's father's computer, or rather what's LEFT of his computer, is now sitting in my living room. Seventeen and a half hours of work, while installing the LAST of the bits that needed ... and there was a fat *CRACK* of suddenly freed current, and then the tower was dead and lifeless, and the monitor'd gone to a 'no signal' status. A bit of prodding proved conclusively that the aging 230w PSU... with a 1994 manufacture date, meaning it didn't owe anyone a damned thing... had blown. I passed the information along, and after a few moments agreed to go chase down another PSU the next morning (as it was 1:45 in the am). I went to bed wondering just how much damage the burnout had caused. Crawled out of bed this morning, poured coffee and thyroid meds down my throat, and went questing for a power supply in a slightly more functional state.
Seventy dollars later, I had a shiny new 400w PSU, and settled down with some of the diagnostic software I had. Processor checked out, memory showed no fault, CDROM drive was functional... but both of the drives were coming up with massive seek errors. Um. *sigh* So after all that work, everything gets blown to hell on the last step. I'll be building up the remaining Slot A Athlon 650 I have here and shipping the damned thing to him. Being home, with access to my parts bins/stacks/boxen/piles, there's no way in hell I'm going to put that kind of effort into a Socket 7 Pentium class machine. But I'm seriously fried as a result. Fortunately, the old man was standing in the hallway when the old PSU blew... and knew enough to know that that was 'a very bad thing'.
*rubs her temples* Okay. Time to change into something more comfy, have a smoke and a soda, then fire up FireChat and Savitar and see what kind of trouble I can cause.
