Acid for Blood

Per the suggestion of commenter Tough_Nutz in my previous post, I burned the Ubuntu Linux distribution to a CD, booted the OS from the CD-ROM drive, and transferred my critical files to an external hard drive. It totally worked! I’m so happy that I haven’t lost my files. I’m going to reinstall Windows on my […]

If it wasn’t already obvious from the lack of content, I’ve been too busy to post. Blogging will be sparse for at least a month, possibly more. More on why later. Watch this space.
My gaming computer’s been broken for a couple of weeks and I haven’t had time to deal with it yet.
I have not […]

Heyo, everyone. It has been a fortnight since my last confession.
I haven’t been doing much gaming lately, since my computer is still broken. I am approaching the light at the end of the tunnel, however. A new memory module from Crucial will arrive tomorrow. I returned it to them a couple weeks ago to have […]

I like it when companies announce a release date that isn’t too far off in the future.
NCsoft and ArenaNet announced that Guild Wars: Eye of the North, the first ever expansion to the subscription-free Guild Wars franchise of fantasy online role-playing games, will be released to the public on August 31, 2007.
This isn’t an expansion […]

After far too long, I finally have my computer running again. The original problem has not been fixed. When I was trying to determine what was wrong, I inadvertently broke something else. Me = n00b. I fixed the “something else” so Angseth is at least working on the surface. Everything appears normal, but I […]

Metroid Prime 3: Corruption is scheduled for release on 20th August. I do not own a Wii and a new console is not in my budget this year. I’d like to buy a console to play more than one game, and quite honestly there aren’t any other games on the Wii that appeal to me […]

I’ve just installed the new/replacement fan on my graphics card. So far, so good. Going to test it on Guild Wars at some point later today.
Technorati Tags: graphics cards, gpu fans, video cards

The replacement fan for my GPU arrived the other day, but I’ve been too busy to set some time aside to install it. I will be out-of-town from Sunday to Tuesday. I may have some time tomorrow to install the fan, depending on how productive I am on travel preparations and such. If I don’t […]

It seems that the fan on my graphics card (256MB ATI Radeon 9800 Pro) has stopped working. I discovered this last night shortly after starting up Windows. The display shut off, but everything else seemed to be working fine. My monitor showed a black screen and an error message, helpfully informing me that the input […]

After more than six months of research, waiting, and saving, I bought the Asus W3J Centrino Core Duo Notebook:
PROCESSOR: Intel Pentium-M T2500 Yonah (2.0Ghz; 667mhz w/ 2mb Cache)
DISPLAY: 14″ WXGA (1280 x 768) Color Shine (glaretype) LCD Panel
MOTHRBOARD: Asus W3J w/ Intel 945PM Chipset
MEMORY: 2048Mb DDR2 667 (1 Gb x 2)
HARD DRIVE: 100Gb 7200RPM
GRAPHICS: ATI […]