Miserable failure

[davidn]

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.

Comments

[starfishchris.livejournal.com]

You made sure to plug in the additional power connector to the card, I assume?

My 939 board only had an AGP socket, so I didn't even have the luxury of a decent graphics card when I got it. Which I wasn't overly fussed about, since I cared more about getting a multicore CPU in the future than I did over faster graphics.

On the plus side, you'll really appreciate the difference of having more than one processor. Proper simultaneous multitasking is a lovely thing.

[kjorteo]

And that whole process would be how my video card acting weird turned into a whole new system, and was thus how Mercury was born! I think the only original parts Mercury has are the sound card and the storage drawer (easily the most reliable and least failure-prone part of the machine!)