I'll pick up one when I can...
In the meantime, I heard back from the repair shop for one of them. They found strands of thin metal fibre had been drawn in through some of the vents in the computer, and shorted a few components out. And I think I know where the fibre came from. Probably not gremlins.... probably a brillo pad used on my desk in work, in a pre-christmas spring clean.
The other one appears to have just dropped off the top of the bathtub of failure.
My commute is.... well there're what you'd call speed bumps along most of it. It's actually doing a number on the car's suspension too, and I'm not whacking these hard. I've seen some of 'em take the sumps out of cars.
Meanwhile, the Dell I'm on right now is running like a champ. I may have to media-serverise this thing. It has great audio output (As opposed to having a broken speaker). And an 8600Gt is still enough for High definition video.
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--m(^0^)m-- Wot, no sig?
In the meantime, I heard back from the repair shop for one of them. They found strands of thin metal fibre had been drawn in through some of the vents in the computer, and shorted a few components out. And I think I know where the fibre came from. Probably not gremlins.... probably a brillo pad used on my desk in work, in a pre-christmas spring clean.
The other one appears to have just dropped off the top of the bathtub of failure.
My commute is.... well there're what you'd call speed bumps along most of it. It's actually doing a number on the car's suspension too, and I'm not whacking these hard. I've seen some of 'em take the sumps out of cars.
Meanwhile, the Dell I'm on right now is running like a champ. I may have to media-serverise this thing. It has great audio output (As opposed to having a broken speaker). And an 8600Gt is still enough for High definition video.
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--m(^0^)m-- Wot, no sig?