Clean, degraded, recovering

What's fun is when you come home and discover that, while you were gone, your CPU fan stopped working.  (It turns out it's a good idea to make sure your case is actually closed, because otherwise massive quantities of dust can accumulate inside—who knew?).  So of course you go out, before even having unpacked, because your priorities are in order, to Fry's to buy a new one (and some air), and, after putting the heat sink on incorrectly (or possibly just with too little thermal paste), get told by the BIOS that the CPU is misreporting its speed, can you please set it to the right speed?  But of course you don't remember what the right speed is, so you try out a few times, always with the same result: after about a minute the computer shuts off, and has to be power cycled before you can turn it back on again.

Eventually you realize that it's still overheating, so you re-seat the heat sink, this time with more thermal hooha, and it works, but probably the CPU is running too slow now.  OH WELL AT LEAST IT'S RUNNING.  A few days later you might decide, for shits and giggles, to see if your RAID 1 array is in order and discover that one of the disks doesn't even claim to be there anymore, that's swell.  Is it just totally b0rked?  No, the connection to the motherboard was jogged loose while all the other shit was going down.  Guess the array will have to be rebuilt (86% complete!!!!)!

I hope that this post hasn't damaged my chances with the ladies

Comments

[I don't pay]

At least it wasn't trashed by the band. And the ladies don't mind your knowing those things in the least, only talking about them.

[teofilo]

It's a good thing no ladies read this blog, then.

[bitchphd]

Hey!

[teofilo]

Hi, b! How ya doin'?

[bitchphd]

Good, on road, responding to things only intermittently. How are you?

[teofilo]

I'm doing just fine. Thanks for asking.

[ben wolfson]

Get a room, you two.