{"id":368,"date":"2009-06-13T13:05:27","date_gmt":"2009-06-13T18:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benie.beniesbuilds.com\/personal\/?p=368"},"modified":"2009-06-13T13:05:27","modified_gmt":"2009-06-13T18:05:27","slug":"latest-on-the-lock-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/2009\/06\/13\/latest-on-the-lock-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest on the lock up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s worse. Waiting &#8217;till July to afford a PSU I may not need, or not knowing what video card to get.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve been questioning if my PSU is still part of the problem to Facepunch, and [H]ard|Forum.com. On Facepunch, I found something that shocked the hell out of me. I found out that it doesn&#8217;t matter how much a PSU costs, it matters what brand name you get.<br \/>\nOn [H]ard|Forum.com, I asked them the same question, and they told me the same thing, and recommend to get a name brand PSU. Well, that&#8217;s ok with me. I was planning to anyway. Infact, I should&#8217;ve bought that damn PSU for $130 when I had the chance, instead of paying for that diagnostic that I didn&#8217;t even need, that didn&#8217;t even do anything to get me closer to finding out the culprit.<br \/>\nOn top of that, he told me to check out this sticky on what PSU&#8217;s they don&#8217;t recommend. I checked it out, and it looks like <strong>every<\/strong> brand out there was listed in the &#8220;not recommended&#8221; list&#8230; that&#8217;s not helpful at all.<\/p>\n<p>Once again I&#8217;m up the creek without a paddle. I&#8217;m getting answers to questions I don&#8217;t need answers to, and the ones I do need answers, I&#8217;m not getting jack shit.<br \/>\nIf only I could get those other questions answered, then I would finally have a base to work with, and feel like saving is no big deal.<\/p>\n<p>There was another piece of this puzzle that was having a hard time to fit, but fits now. And that is my UPS(Un-interruptible Power Supply). I got it the day I got my computer, back in 2005. It serves as basically the thing I turn on to turn my computer on. Provides electricity to the computer. I was wondering if it&#8217;s compatible with my hardware. Or if it had a short.<br \/>\nSo I tried plugging everything to a strip, and tried out FarCry 1. It locked up the second I turned the corner and stared into that room.<br \/>\nSomething tells me FarCry 1 is&#8230; too old for my computer now? It worked fine on my old hardware.<br \/>\nI know another game that worked fine on my old hardware. But it doesn&#8217;t lock up like the others. It crashes. And that game is Counter-Strike: Condition Zero &#8211; Deleted Scenes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s worse. Waiting &#8217;till July to afford a PSU I may not need, or not knowing what video card to get. I&#8217;ve been questioning if my PSU is still part of the problem to Facepunch, and [H]ard|Forum.com. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/2009\/06\/13\/latest-on-the-lock-up\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-lolfuckup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}