Triumph
So I now have renewed humility when it comes to my knowledge of computer hardware, but renewed faith in my innate mechanical luck.
It took me about fifteen minutes to fashion a tubular key out of a paperclip, It would've gone a lot faster if I'd tried making a faux key first, instead of trying to little tension bars for each of the four tumblers. Upon opening the case up I didn't see any real issues. I examined everything thoroughly, nothing was burned or damaged or shaken in any way. I tried to install the extra RAM that Chris had brought home one day, but my motherboard uses a different format. And don't bother asking, the conditions that lead to one finding RAM just laying around completely allude me.
Examining the internals of my machine I realized that I don't know quite as much as I thought I did. The most troubling thing was that I couldn't locate my sound card. The sound ports seemed to be wired to the motherboard, is it integrated to the motherboard? I really can't say. Despite the new found dearth in my technical knowledge I still knew enough to conclude that there were no hardware problems with my machine, and after some dusting I closed it back up, and decided to try it one last time to see if some kind of invisible hand had cured my machine while I was staring at its components.
And apparently it had. The PC booted eventually, it threw a bizarre error "The CPU has been changed" but it's running fine now. The only reasonable conclusion I can make is that the fan over the CPU had been knocked loose in some way, and that I had inadvertently fixed it while dusting it. Then again if this really was a heating issue it could've been one of the other seven fans in my machine that was loosened and inadvertently fixed. Maybe the problem was the dust itself, I really can't say but it's functioning and I'm not going to question it. With this in mind, and with a new found understand of how tenuous its function may be, I'm going to go backup everything of even moderate worth onto Kevin's hard drive.
It took me about fifteen minutes to fashion a tubular key out of a paperclip, It would've gone a lot faster if I'd tried making a faux key first, instead of trying to little tension bars for each of the four tumblers. Upon opening the case up I didn't see any real issues. I examined everything thoroughly, nothing was burned or damaged or shaken in any way. I tried to install the extra RAM that Chris had brought home one day, but my motherboard uses a different format. And don't bother asking, the conditions that lead to one finding RAM just laying around completely allude me.
Examining the internals of my machine I realized that I don't know quite as much as I thought I did. The most troubling thing was that I couldn't locate my sound card. The sound ports seemed to be wired to the motherboard, is it integrated to the motherboard? I really can't say. Despite the new found dearth in my technical knowledge I still knew enough to conclude that there were no hardware problems with my machine, and after some dusting I closed it back up, and decided to try it one last time to see if some kind of invisible hand had cured my machine while I was staring at its components.
And apparently it had. The PC booted eventually, it threw a bizarre error "The CPU has been changed" but it's running fine now. The only reasonable conclusion I can make is that the fan over the CPU had been knocked loose in some way, and that I had inadvertently fixed it while dusting it. Then again if this really was a heating issue it could've been one of the other seven fans in my machine that was loosened and inadvertently fixed. Maybe the problem was the dust itself, I really can't say but it's functioning and I'm not going to question it. With this in mind, and with a new found understand of how tenuous its function may be, I'm going to go backup everything of even moderate worth onto Kevin's hard drive.
posted by Max at 9:46 AM
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