Sleepless in South Dakota
Posted June 10th, 2008 at 00:51 by theburan
So, due to my current 330 to midnight work schedule, I really don't get sleepy until about 3 am at the earliest, and it's only getting worse and worse. So what am I doing? Sitting here, writing up a blog, and watching my friends computer run orthos, just waiting for it to shutdown.
Because if it's not one thing, it's another, it seems. Just when I decide that the p5k mobo that I had got is probably flaky, and send it off for an rma, the computer I built for my friend starts acting up. Just random shutdowns, no bluescreens, no obvious errors in the windows logs. Good temps all around, and hard as heck to reproduce. For the better part of the day, I couldn't reproduce the error after defaulting the bios, and it took a good 2 and a half hours of orthos while overclocked to 3.6ghz to get it to shutdown at all, without me telling it to.
So I'm sitting here, bored, too lazy to turn on my own computer and clean off my chair enough to play cod4 (since I have a giant pile of stuff that migrates between my computer chair and my bed, depending on what I'm using at the time), hoping his computer doesn't shut off, and I can wake up with it still churning away.
I'm just not feeling the urge to start the old swap part after part until you figure out what was wrong (even though in this case, I'm going to lean towards the mobo, since it's a 680i board... seems to have a flaky reputation, especially since it's paired with mushkin ram and a corsair psu. I'll trust those before the mobo.
Also, I feel with him not having a good computer, since he's been sick for a good two months now (gall stone, maybe... not real sure yet. He's just now figuring out what is what with that), and there's not much stuff he can do that doesn't make him feel like crap.
So one way or another, he's getting a computer back... even if I have to give him my psu or mobo or something for the time being. I'm going on vacation anyways, lol.
Anyways, that ends my chat, hopefully I'll be able to fall asleep soon.
Because if it's not one thing, it's another, it seems. Just when I decide that the p5k mobo that I had got is probably flaky, and send it off for an rma, the computer I built for my friend starts acting up. Just random shutdowns, no bluescreens, no obvious errors in the windows logs. Good temps all around, and hard as heck to reproduce. For the better part of the day, I couldn't reproduce the error after defaulting the bios, and it took a good 2 and a half hours of orthos while overclocked to 3.6ghz to get it to shutdown at all, without me telling it to.
So I'm sitting here, bored, too lazy to turn on my own computer and clean off my chair enough to play cod4 (since I have a giant pile of stuff that migrates between my computer chair and my bed, depending on what I'm using at the time), hoping his computer doesn't shut off, and I can wake up with it still churning away.
I'm just not feeling the urge to start the old swap part after part until you figure out what was wrong (even though in this case, I'm going to lean towards the mobo, since it's a 680i board... seems to have a flaky reputation, especially since it's paired with mushkin ram and a corsair psu. I'll trust those before the mobo.
Also, I feel with him not having a good computer, since he's been sick for a good two months now (gall stone, maybe... not real sure yet. He's just now figuring out what is what with that), and there's not much stuff he can do that doesn't make him feel like crap.
So one way or another, he's getting a computer back... even if I have to give him my psu or mobo or something for the time being. I'm going on vacation anyways, lol.
Anyways, that ends my chat, hopefully I'll be able to fall asleep soon.
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 |  A nice beer(tecate, dos eqquis, or sol) before bed usually winds me down. But yes I am an alcoholic. -1 |
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| |  Lol... I'm not quite old enough to wind down like that. At least fixing my friends computer was easy... the corsair psu he had gotten (a tx750) seems to have been causing it all, since just swapping in my fsp epsilon was enough to make it stable enough to run orthos for 24 hours straight. |
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| | I think you have more night owls here than you think man. Might be a bit old, but we had a night owl thread around here before. Several perked up saying they're up at odd hours. I have some funky shifts too. I mainly write something up hoping to put some stuff up, but it never does. I spend most of the nights re-reading and trying to figure out how to better word something. I'm no writing major (duh) and if I had deadlines, I'd be fired...stat. So computers are good to kill time. You can play with wires for hours. Do you just sit up with no real feel of intention? That's what a lot of folks don't have: time. That's when you can really get into some stuff you wouldn't otherwise do. The day guys are rush rush, we have time to kill! I'm on 3 days, then 5 nights this week. I can't get too comfortable, will be tired tomorrow, but need to ready my body for the graveyards (6pm-7am). Poker fills the nights, but not everyone can stay...so I break out a balsa plane or mindlessly fix a computer until it's broken. |
| Updated July 12th, 2008 at 22:27 by Boy'nBlack (Computers, wire, modding...just an addition to an open thought) |
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