Thursday, April 8, 2010
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
PC Woes Continue
Just when I thought I was starting to get somewhere with my PC, I glanced at my RAM usage on boot and it was at an absurdly high 80-90% usage rate. So now my PC has legs to stand but forgot how to walk so to speak. I tried scrolling through my process to find out what obnoxious app would dare take up so much resources on boot and came up with nothing. No flags on my AV protection (Norton IS 2010) and disabling startup apps didn't really help.
So I started on another journey of restoring my PC back to a fresh image I had saved on my server. Sounds like plan. I boot up and pop in the CD and get a nice "Server is not found" message. Great, I fiddle with my LAN setup for another hour or so since I have a kind of unfriendly setup of 1 router and 1 VOIP router set as a bridge. After reconfiguring and restoring the network and essentially placing both the server and my PC on the same physical router with static IP's, the server might as well have been on Pluto.
With those series of mishaps effectively killing my day, I turn to my last resort, nuking the sum'beech with a reformat and reload. So while I'm doing that, I figure I should check on my server since it pretty much failed on me. Come to find out that all is not well with the server too, with some processes not starting up like they should and getting a looping mysql error message upon boot. So I nuked that beech too. When the dust settles I should be in good shape hopefully, I should probably run a test restore while I'm at work tomorrow just to be sure. At least I got in a few games of Solitaire today, here's to tomorrow.
So I started on another journey of restoring my PC back to a fresh image I had saved on my server. Sounds like plan. I boot up and pop in the CD and get a nice "Server is not found" message. Great, I fiddle with my LAN setup for another hour or so since I have a kind of unfriendly setup of 1 router and 1 VOIP router set as a bridge. After reconfiguring and restoring the network and essentially placing both the server and my PC on the same physical router with static IP's, the server might as well have been on Pluto.
With those series of mishaps effectively killing my day, I turn to my last resort, nuking the sum'beech with a reformat and reload. So while I'm doing that, I figure I should check on my server since it pretty much failed on me. Come to find out that all is not well with the server too, with some processes not starting up like they should and getting a looping mysql error message upon boot. So I nuked that beech too. When the dust settles I should be in good shape hopefully, I should probably run a test restore while I'm at work tomorrow just to be sure. At least I got in a few games of Solitaire today, here's to tomorrow.
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Surprise
In another futile attempt to keep this site updated, I'm going to try and post short daily posts which may or may not be about nothing, and probably won't be spruced up with a nice picture. So here goes...
Tonights gaming session started off with Mount and Blade: Warband for PC, and well it lasted way too long. I am having way too much fun with that game than I probably should. It's got some outdated graphics, a kind of clunky UI, and a very steep learning curve but for some reason that game's got plenty of appeal. There's something cool about setting up your own army and laying waste to villages and castles from a 3rd person perspective.
On another note, I think I've gotten my BSOD's figured out, seems like it's related to my OC and the CPU voltage my PSU is pumping out. For whatever reason 1.45V ain't cutting it anymore and I'm getting mad 101 BSOD's in alot of my games, which either points to an unstable board or my PSU starting to fail on me. Anyway, I should be able to figure it out tomorrow once I run this evga utility that took me 3 days to get (long story).
Tonights gaming session started off with Mount and Blade: Warband for PC, and well it lasted way too long. I am having way too much fun with that game than I probably should. It's got some outdated graphics, a kind of clunky UI, and a very steep learning curve but for some reason that game's got plenty of appeal. There's something cool about setting up your own army and laying waste to villages and castles from a 3rd person perspective.
On another note, I think I've gotten my BSOD's figured out, seems like it's related to my OC and the CPU voltage my PSU is pumping out. For whatever reason 1.45V ain't cutting it anymore and I'm getting mad 101 BSOD's in alot of my games, which either points to an unstable board or my PSU starting to fail on me. Anyway, I should be able to figure it out tomorrow once I run this evga utility that took me 3 days to get (long story).
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
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