Jul. 25th, 2007

I have just realized that this is a thing that not everyone would know. That's what I get for forgetting that while most of the people I regularly e-talk to are also e-talked to by mecha, some aren't. So here's the scoop for anyone who was worried, including the person whose voicemail I found on my phone when I suddenly remembered to check said device.

A couple weeks ago ish, we went to slap a heatsink the size of Montana on my CPU, and the motherboard blew. Apparently said component has been acting weird basically since the day I got it, but I just didn't realize this behavior was weird since I had nothing but crappy pack-in eMachines and Dell motherboards to compare it to. At any rate, whether or not it was dying before, it died for sure when that heatsink started asking for juice.

Ordinarily this would be the part where we would order a new motherboard on Newegg, and in fact that is what we did. Only there was exactly one motherboard that would use the four gigs of RAM we had just bought not two months ago, so we got that motherboard. Which would only take a very narrow range of processors, not including the one we already had (if, in fact, it had survived the Magic-Smoke-involving event of the motherboard going), so we had to get a new processor too. According to the product listings, Newegg carried exactly one processor that would work with this motherboard, but hey, one was all we needed, right? So we bought this stuff, and it got shipped to mechamom up in Indy, and finally we got the parts and were ready to install them on Saturday.

Only it turned out that the processor is 64-bit, whereas the motherboard and everything else I have is 32.

Oops.

So now we've got two hundred bucks of useless parts waiting to be returned (Newegg is going to give us an RMA number, at least, which is good), and meanwhile my computer is still a very large paperweight. It'll probably be at least a couple weeks until we have it running again, because there isn't the money to buy a different mobo and CPU (and RAM since we'll have to ditch the $250 worth we just bought since nobody supports it anymore) until either A) we return the stuff and Newegg refunds the money, or B) IU finally gives me the rest of my summer financial aid money. (I might add that the summer session ends in TWO WEEKS. Presumably they will actually disburse me my money someday, but so far there is little indication that that is in fact the case.)

The short version of this is that you can consider me offline for a couple more weeks at least. Occasionally I steal mecha's computer to type things to people on AIM, or to post here, and I added my YIM to his Trillian although so far it hasn't stayed connected for more than about three seconds at a time. This weekend I am probably going to give in and kidnap his City of Heroes installation, because dammit, I want to kill guys and be considered a hero for it. I expected to go completely mad without constant access to my own machine, and I am going mad, but at a much slower rate than expected. I suppose it "helps" to know that even having my computer working wouldn't let me talk to Chris, so hey really what's the difference in the end.

And that's the sitch.

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