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| CRIZZNASH |  | Category: Tech
Wednesday, April 16th, 2003 @ 02:52 pm
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Well, a little over a week ago, I set something down on my computer case and noticed the top of it was hotter than the fires of hell. Upon closer inspection, it appeared that the fan on my computer's power supply had collected its gold watch and a fat pension, and was now just laying on my legs doing nothing. My computer was running fine, but having a long line of computers dying from heat issues behind me, I decided to turn her off and investigate.
Unfortunately, that was the last time I ever saw her alive.
After trying to just replace the fan, then learning that infact the whole power supply was bad, then testing out a long line of defunct power supplies, I finally put an actual working one in and got it powered up to hear nothing more the the pc POST beeps declaring that the motherboard was bad. The motherboard I had just put in it 4 or so months ago. A motherboard for a computer so old, I probably paid more for it than the damn computer itself costs now.
Me and the computer have been through quite a bit together. I got it around four years ago and its never really given me any problems to speak of. I've amazed people with how well it ran, even up until it died -- I squeezed more power out of a Celeron 366 than I've seen people get out of a brand new pentium 4, no shittin. It was almost a symbol of pride for me.
I suppose its a blessing in disguise though, seeming as I am now being thrust into the modern age of buying a computer that just comes with an obscene amount of power as opposed to the Sisyphean task of trying to keep an antique from fading into obsolescence.
Of course, this probably won't happen for another month or so, and until then, I'm stuck with an even more ancient machine running Gentoo Linux. I suppose It will be good for me to spend a little bit more time with linux as my main machine.
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