Well. Good to see the ole Blog back up. At first I was thinking “Oshi-… is my cable modem not letting me on fully again?”, and finding out angry took it down to… restructure the folders in the site. The fuck?
\nHe claimed it was “too messy” to work with, so had to backup then remove everything from the site. I never had to do this when it came to my years of being a webmaster.
\nBut anyway, all I really cared about was him getting the blog back up so.. I could talk to myself again. Well. That’s what it feels like anyway. But it’s better than seeing “Ohh QQ man!” or other random insults after someone reading my blogs.<\/p>\n
Anyway, to post why I made this entry. On Tuesday(real early in the morning), I… flashed, my BIOS. All because of goppend asking “have you updated your BIOS?”, due to wondering if it could be my CPU that might be causing my lock up issue, after him handing me an old entry from 2007, one year before I got my upgrades to this computer, that AMD Phenom CPU’s have been known to have lock up issues.
\nSo I went on Gigabyte’s website, got the BIOS update, found Award’s own version of WinFlash, and proceeded to backup my current BIOS, and then update it. It was successful….until after I tried to reboot.
\nWhen I did, my monitor refused to turn on, and my hard drive was acting like something was wrong, and something was… my motherboard was FUCKED!! D:
\nMy heart started to race, my stomach got upset, I started to get into a “OH SHIT, NO!!!” feeling. I tried to boot it again.. same thing. I felt like I was about to scream.
\nI unplugged the shit from the back of my computer, tried to think and grabbed the book to my motherboard, only to find it was telling me the correct way to update my BIOS, to use this Q-Flash or @BIOS.
\nI flipped through pages after reading from a site that says there’s a way to save your motherboard, by resetting the CMOS. Both things (sticking a screwdriver on these two pins, and taking out the Clock Battery for a minute) didn’t work. I knew my only option was to go to the guy that built my system, and get a new motherboard.
\nAnyway, a few days passed of waiting, sitting on my bed all damn day, desperately trying to watch something good on TV. Today, we where under a Slight Risk of severe weather. And that’s the same day I get my computer back. Fortunately all the bad shit stayed back far and weakened enough for me to get my computer back home.<\/p>\n
I wanted to type this but that’s when I noticed I couldn’t access the site, and angry wouldn’t respond. So I played Mirror’s Edge, because I missed it(it’s such an awesome game!, despite the graphics). No sooner than 5 minutes after I got in, I heard “Hello!! I’m still here!”(not heard, but felt).. yep. My friend the Lock Up Issue was back.
\nIn a way I’m glad it is, because I had my computer back the way it was before I fucked it up.<\/p>\n
Back before I left them, he told me that there’s a 90% probability that it’s my GPU(video card) that is causing my lock ups, because of my card’s RAM could be overheating… deja-vu from my 9400GT. He said to get something like a 9800GT or higher; a high-end card. After it locked up, I decided to check Newegg to see what I could find, at a reasonable price.<\/p>\n
The first thing I noticed, the 9800GT’s with their different manufactures ranged from $100-$150. Also, they all had the same two ports. Those ports reminded me of the adapter I had to attach to my video card to make my secondary monitor work, and they BOTH looked like that.
\nAlso, the XFX cards. There was only two of them there. The majority of reviews I’ve read where about “it’s huge! I had to move this and that to get it to fit!”, and also disgruntling news of “you need a 600+Watt PSU to make it run smoothly”.
\nUGH… money, money, money!!! And if I haven’t spent enough on this computer already!<\/p>\n
I have noticed when I first got in, Windows is really slow to boot up, and still is. I wonder if this is a side-effect of not reformatting my drive and reinstalling XP. But it takes like 20+ seconds until I see the desktop.
\nI now have a copy of Avast! antivirus on my computer. goppend tells me it might be malware causing it. He also says that it could be a virus, not my video card, that’s fucking up my games by fucking around with my RAM.
\nIf it’s not, then I know my computer is virus free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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