Thursday, April 13, 2006

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No smoke without fire...

We have a massive problem here with our main pc, in that its now not the main pc anymore... not since the power supply caused untold damage to it the other night when it unexpectedly blew up.
We've managed to save the media disk from it - and thats about it. The memory is fried, so that too would also mean the motherboard fried too - and other components that we can't test on the remaining pc as it's just not capable of doing such a thing as it's just not powerful enough to cope with these new fangled things (six years old and it's not the fastest thing on the planet.)
Yep, welcome to the world of 700mhz processing, for the time being anyway.
Our plans for upgrading have been somewhat shelved for the time being. Gone is our dream of upgrading both computers to be faster than what they are at the moment.
Gone are our plans of networking and doing the kind of things we take for granted on both machines. Gone is our plan of getting some kind of external hdd for all our media.
I've had to put my show temporarily on ice until something is sorted out - and I don't know how long thats going to take.
Granted, this pc has done well for the last 6 years. It's laughed in the face of other computers which have come and gone in that time.
This disaster puts several projects temporarily on hold for now.
Plans have been made to try and restore some sort of order in all this chaos, but it won't be quick and it won't be easy.
It saddens me that this happened at all. It's not exactly helped with our plans for the year.
My only hope is a miracle happens and everything is right as rain in the morning.
We got two computers, one sux and one blows.
Good thing we got insurance! BUT!!! will they pay out? if they do, will it cover the cost of what needs replacing?
Who knows.