Miserable failure
Jan. 15th, 2010 08:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
davidnTo summarize:
I do have a small number of backups on another drive - CT2 is mostly still around as it was near the end of last year, for example, though the source file for the demo isn't (so if I do release it this weekend, everyone's getting the Clickteam version!) But with things like this happening every time I say I'm going to start work on it again, I frankly get the feeling that it's time to take the hint.
- Installing the new graphics card still just gives the "video failure" POST beep
- This means that either the graphics card is just dead (not totally unheard of) or the problem is the connection on the motherboard
- So it's likely I'll need a new motherboard
- The Socket 939 motherboards that my CPU fits into have been obsolete since three years ago
- So I could hunt around for an older one, or just take the opportunity to upgrade
- New CPU as well, then
- Transferring my main hard drive into an external enclosure reveals that it's having some sort of trouble spinning up
- Bugger
I do have a small number of backups on another drive - CT2 is mostly still around as it was near the end of last year, for example, though the source file for the demo isn't (so if I do release it this weekend, everyone's getting the Clickteam version!) But with things like this happening every time I say I'm going to start work on it again, I frankly get the feeling that it's time to take the hint.
