My story for the past month and a half(SPRING RELATED)
Posted: 01 Dec 2007, 08:58
Ok, let me preface this with the fact that I am posting this as spring related because frankly my computer virtualy loling at me right now may calm you people down. Also my month and a half downtime is a big reason there will not be a TD release this Christmas.
Ok, a few years back I built my machine Sakiyama. She was fast and cool and frankly too much fun not to play with. So I was fidgeting around inside of her and POW spark! I was like well fuck, I should have known better but she boots up fine and I was like holy shit she is awesome.
Fast forward.
Spring sucks ass on my machine, I could not run the dynamic water and I wouldn't get higher then 30fps. SO I read the comments about lol buy a better video card and get a 8600 GTS. Which still yeilds no performance boost. I buy more ram... nothing.
So I say well shit a dual core is next. Before this happens my windows crashes. Well fuck, no biggie, I'll get this shit up in no time. However, checking my voltage in the bios it was noticeably kicking out odd numbers so I said shit, some controller did get fried but I figure well lets also check my ram. ERRORS! ERRORS ERRORS! Great, so that fucking dumbass moment came back to haunt me. I spent a week researching a similar motherboard and cpu dual core that I could get and NOONE HAD THE MBO!
Finally I find a friend who has one! LUCKY ME! Well I get the MBO and install shit! YAY! I even installed windows into my new sata... big mistake. See my bloody computer was fine until I plugged back in my media drive which was IDE! It immediately decided the IDE was the master and FREAKS the windows install. SO I repair, and repair, authenticate and then clean the old windows files off the old IDE.
WINDOWS CANNOT FIND FILES! what the hell, it installed across drives!??! I had never seen this with 98/95 but sure enough it had. So I said fine whatever, format reinstall, authenticate(bear in mind this is just calling india explaining the long story prior to all this and getting my compy oked repeatedly). Now.. what the fuck CANNOT FIND BOOT DEVICE.
So I reinstall and change drive orders, I unplug replug etc. Soo many reinstalls. Finally last night I figured it out! HO RAH, I needed to tell it to set the sata as active. So yay cool solution, lets reinstall on the other drive.
I have to format AGAIN, hours later. I am sitting here happily thinking about the l4 laser and I hear an explosion sound. Like a firecracker like pop. I think ok check the fans to see if one lost a blade. Then I realize the cdrom is making a funny noise. I think not now, not my cdrom also. No it is worse, the windows cd exploded mid install. I am not exaggerating, the fucking cd shattered!HOLY CRAP! So now the tray finally opened and I get 1/4 of the shards of cd.
1 1/2 months over 600 bucks and now I have to get a new windows cd and dvd burner. I cannot lie and tell you that I do not have teary eyed frustration over the whole mess.
So yeah, now, the lan party my friends were going to throw as a celebration of my graduation.. my machine still will not be up for. 1 1/2 months of frustration working through this and that and now I have a machine with a dvd rom filled with exploded windows cd.
So, towerdefense, gundam etc will not as an absolute fact be ready this Christmas. The files are safe and I do want to work on them both, I yearn to work on them but now I cannot even boot windows. Let alone do any spring work.
So get your lols on at my expense about the whole thing and my rotten luck. You guys are all playing BA so no big loss but to those who wanted to see the cool stuff I was doing... I am sorry you will have to wait longer, I have done EVERYTHING in my power to get back to work.
Links in post are not to pictures of my bad luck.
Ok, a few years back I built my machine Sakiyama. She was fast and cool and frankly too much fun not to play with. So I was fidgeting around inside of her and POW spark! I was like well fuck, I should have known better but she boots up fine and I was like holy shit she is awesome.
Fast forward.
Spring sucks ass on my machine, I could not run the dynamic water and I wouldn't get higher then 30fps. SO I read the comments about lol buy a better video card and get a 8600 GTS. Which still yeilds no performance boost. I buy more ram... nothing.
So I say well shit a dual core is next. Before this happens my windows crashes. Well fuck, no biggie, I'll get this shit up in no time. However, checking my voltage in the bios it was noticeably kicking out odd numbers so I said shit, some controller did get fried but I figure well lets also check my ram. ERRORS! ERRORS ERRORS! Great, so that fucking dumbass moment came back to haunt me. I spent a week researching a similar motherboard and cpu dual core that I could get and NOONE HAD THE MBO!
Finally I find a friend who has one! LUCKY ME! Well I get the MBO and install shit! YAY! I even installed windows into my new sata... big mistake. See my bloody computer was fine until I plugged back in my media drive which was IDE! It immediately decided the IDE was the master and FREAKS the windows install. SO I repair, and repair, authenticate and then clean the old windows files off the old IDE.
WINDOWS CANNOT FIND FILES! what the hell, it installed across drives!??! I had never seen this with 98/95 but sure enough it had. So I said fine whatever, format reinstall, authenticate(bear in mind this is just calling india explaining the long story prior to all this and getting my compy oked repeatedly). Now.. what the fuck CANNOT FIND BOOT DEVICE.
So I reinstall and change drive orders, I unplug replug etc. Soo many reinstalls. Finally last night I figured it out! HO RAH, I needed to tell it to set the sata as active. So yay cool solution, lets reinstall on the other drive.
I have to format AGAIN, hours later. I am sitting here happily thinking about the l4 laser and I hear an explosion sound. Like a firecracker like pop. I think ok check the fans to see if one lost a blade. Then I realize the cdrom is making a funny noise. I think not now, not my cdrom also. No it is worse, the windows cd exploded mid install. I am not exaggerating, the fucking cd shattered!HOLY CRAP! So now the tray finally opened and I get 1/4 of the shards of cd.
1 1/2 months over 600 bucks and now I have to get a new windows cd and dvd burner. I cannot lie and tell you that I do not have teary eyed frustration over the whole mess.
So yeah, now, the lan party my friends were going to throw as a celebration of my graduation.. my machine still will not be up for. 1 1/2 months of frustration working through this and that and now I have a machine with a dvd rom filled with exploded windows cd.
So, towerdefense, gundam etc will not as an absolute fact be ready this Christmas. The files are safe and I do want to work on them both, I yearn to work on them but now I cannot even boot windows. Let alone do any spring work.
So get your lols on at my expense about the whole thing and my rotten luck. You guys are all playing BA so no big loss but to those who wanted to see the cool stuff I was doing... I am sorry you will have to wait longer, I have done EVERYTHING in my power to get back to work.
Links in post are not to pictures of my bad luck.