davidn: (skull)
davidn ([personal profile] davidn) wrote2010-01-15 08:00 am
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Miserable failure

To summarize:

  • 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.

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