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Arvixe fixes issues with my blogs
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For at least a month, everytime I try to publish/update a blog post I would be greeted to this message;
I would get no email to show me what the error is and how I could possibly fix it. And this didn’t make publishing posts impossible to do. Refreshing the page usually went around the error.
I blamed it on the https that WordPress kept bitching at me to get, but never decided to report it to Arvixe …until this issue kept me from grabbing the latest update
from WordPress.
But trying to get ahold of Arvixe, it seems their own website is having issues (though not related to mine). Trying to go to the home page, pointed me to a very odd link that I’m not going to show here (of it maybe having the potential to be a scam or something, and I rather not expose you folks to it). Infact I couldn’t even get to my Customer Portal to give them the support code they ask for. Now I would say something about all of this (in the form of a rant), but since I’m kind of stuck with this company, there’s no point of saying
it. Plus it would go off-topic.
Now, getting ahold of their live chat was thankfully still possible. Though it was very concerning when they wanted me to confirm that I own this site (like they were having a lot of trouble trying to locate it in their database). But they found the problem and fixed it. And the issue wasn’t WordPress struggling to work in HTTPS, but I was apparently using the wrong PHP version. The one that helped me, didn’t set the version
to 7.4 (which WordPress uses). They set it to 8.1 instead. What a colossal failure, just like their– nope, not going there. Not here. In reality I’m sure it was an honest mistake.
But now the issue’s fixed; the error has disappeared, and I was properly able to grab the update.
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Stage 1 of the case swap completed
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Before you ask, no, I haven’t switched to the new graphics card (yet). For that
will (hopefully) happen sometime during the first week of April. I’ll need at least two days where my mother doesn’t bug me about wanting food.
This morning though, instead of working on JeroWorks 3.0, I decided to go on and install the two Noctua fans in the new case. Plus I wanted to properly see the inside of said
case (what I have to work with, once the day comes). And it was already losing points with me: no written manual / still using FPCs (thought Cave told me I wouldn’t have to deal with the tiny fuckers) / going through hell to remove part of the PSU Shroud (and
the HDD drive cage) in order to install one of the new Noctua fans I got.
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So let’s start with the first issue: no written manual. What. the. hell. Ok, case manufacturers. I get it. “Everyone has a phone by now. Let’s post the manual as a .pdf”.
Please don’t do this. You left me with nothing. Nothing about what sized fans I can use. Nothing about what the hell the bottom of THIS is used for..
(Cave assumes it’s for cable management)
You also left me nothing that directed me TO yourall’s .pdf! You guys seem to truly hate lazy people who won’t Google their answers. And that just doesn’t feel fair. All I can say is I’m so glad I have friends like Cave would be more than happy to assist me with these problems.. unlike you assholes who seem to just assume people that buy your cases build computers for a living. And I mean that.
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Moving on.. those fucking fucker FPCs (Front Panel Connectors) are back. However I’m not really surprised. Infact Cave did explain the reason why they still do this. Yet you would think this would be universal by now, and had made it easier by now. But for some reason the only ‘universal’ thing is these tiny fuckers still exist to ruin my life.
Now again, I have no problem trying to figure out which pin goes to which header (as long as I have the proper documentation).. the problem is the pins have no clamp that keeps them there Why do fan and power supply pins for the motherboard have clamps, but not front panel connectors? Even the tiny ‘POWER LED -‘ & ‘+’ don’t have clamps. If they
did, I wouldn’t (back in 2020) had been spending all night in a call with Jero, hoping he could show me how to keep the damn things in the headers without them slipping out due to tension.
I know how to get them in. I just don’t know how to properly keep them in. Especially the ‘POWER LED’ ones. In an attempt to try to humor myself, I tried to look up memes about those tiny fuckers. While there wasn’t that many, I did see a lot of comments of saying
they “don’t plug in the LED due to it acting as a strobe light at night”. This makes me wonder if I would be good to just plug in ‘POWER SW’, ‘RESET SW’ and then finally ‘HDD LED’ and leave the rest unplugged.
Because that’s all I really need, especially POWER SW (as without it I won’t be able to get my computer out of sleep mode). RESET SW I’ll need incase I have to do an emergency restart, and HDD LED to know my drives are still OK (especially during POST). From what I read, I should have no problem just doing it like this. And hopefully they won’t fall out to allow me to work on the rest of the case. Maybe I might even do some cable management to tie down the cable the FPCs use, to hopefully remove the tension.
Now there’s one thing I didn’t list, but it’s related to the ‘no paper manual’. And that’s trying to figure out how to remove the front panel in order to install the fans. Never had to do this before, as usually the case supplied the fans for me. I was forced to join the call with Kovo and the others in order to get help (through Cave).
After he sent me a video showing what to do, you not only have to remove the bottom filter but reach into the bottom and feel for a small (but wide) button that you have to really press in with all of your might, in order to pop the front panel off. There I saw the other side of the panel had a (non-removable) dust filter. I then tried the ‘breath test’ by blowing into the mesh to see how fast I would feel my breath, to see how hard the fans would have to be spinning to pull in cooler air from the room. It took a second until I felt my breath, when normally it would be instant.
This could be a problem, but Cave feels with how high powered the fans are, they would be able to easily move the air into the case.
Speaking of the fans, I decided to hold up on the installation of the fan hub. The main reason, is unknown cable routing once I install the motherboard into the case and get the power supply hooked up. I plan to hook it to one of the two SSD drive bays, but I dunno at this time which one to do so (depending on how the cable routing goes). I have to
wait.
I also had to remove the front panel frame, as I had to remove part of the PSU Shroud in order to install a drive bay front fan. Never had to do this (and remove that part of the shroud) either. Definitely a (quite painful) learning experience. Cave told me he’s had to do this, and it’s very annoying at first. He definitely wasn’t kidding, hurting my fingers of squeezing these things and then pushing them away from me to make the frame pop
off. Not to mention also needing to be careful with the front panel cables.
And getting the removable part of the shroud out, that was a pain as well. Thought I was going to break it with how it was bending, but it finally popped off.
Managed with both tasks, and got the two Noctua fans installed to the front of the case.
But I wasn’t done. I had to re-mount the drive cage. ..I ended up attaching it on wrong, not understanding why the holes weren’t properly lining up (and nearly destroying it trying to get the screws in). But after finally correcting my mistake, it’s all good.
Also, glad to say the drive cage itself has brackets I can attach the HDDs to and then slide them into place, just like my Thermaltake.
But yeah. Fans installed (outside of the current Noctua fan that’s in my current case that’s serving as the exhaust fan). I’m pretty much ready for my second case swap! 🙂
First I gotta get through the weekend (and some storms/very strong winds). And it could very well happen again this coming Tuesday/Wednesday.