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beware
so, despite working at an advanced computing center, my home pc has been particularly ... what is the opposite of advanced ??? crap, for a long while. I remember I was living back at the old holden st house, last time I upgraded it. Scary.
So on Sat, I finally took the plunge and bought a new one.
And Sunday, I finally got everything swapped over and happy and working. Until I noticed today, the CD drive not opening, opened the case, to find I'd unplugged it, due to lack of power from the PSU. Whoops. So this morning, traded the 'adequate' psu from the new box for my nice shiny antec psu in my old box, with power cables EVERYWHERE, and now it purrs like a kitten _and_ opens the cd tray when you press the button. luxury.
The only downside so far (aside from not quite getting this 32bit chroot for firefox plugins working) is that it turns out my video cards dvi output doesn't send out analog as well. meaning I can't tack a dvi->vga adaptor on there and do twinview. Unless I buy an lcd ... *hmmmm*
So tonight, I'll be ripping out the sblive I brought across from the old box, just incase the onboard sound wasn't up to scratch (it turns out it is .. and unless i'm imagining things, it has hardware mixing too), and putting in my old crappy matrox second video card, so I can be back to dualhead, until I either buy a new video card with dvi-i output, or an lcd.
are we happy now ?
so, despite working at an advanced computing center, my home pc has been particularly ... what is the opposite of advanced ??? crap, for a long while. I remember I was living back at the old holden st house, last time I upgraded it. Scary.
So on Sat, I finally took the plunge and bought a new one.
And Sunday, I finally got everything swapped over and happy and working. Until I noticed today, the CD drive not opening, opened the case, to find I'd unplugged it, due to lack of power from the PSU. Whoops. So this morning, traded the 'adequate' psu from the new box for my nice shiny antec psu in my old box, with power cables EVERYWHERE, and now it purrs like a kitten _and_ opens the cd tray when you press the button. luxury.
The only downside so far (aside from not quite getting this 32bit chroot for firefox plugins working) is that it turns out my video cards dvi output doesn't send out analog as well. meaning I can't tack a dvi->vga adaptor on there and do twinview. Unless I buy an lcd ... *hmmmm*
So tonight, I'll be ripping out the sblive I brought across from the old box, just incase the onboard sound wasn't up to scratch (it turns out it is .. and unless i'm imagining things, it has hardware mixing too), and putting in my old crappy matrox second video card, so I can be back to dualhead, until I either buy a new video card with dvi-i output, or an lcd.
are we happy now ?