November 30, 2004

I should know better

Ya know...

With a new computer all spanky and clean, 10 X faster than the old one and super cool, I should know better than to screw around with things.... but apparently I don't.

Last night I thought to myself "Hey! I like having a temperature/fan/etc. monitor running, let's find one for my motherboard" so I went to the Intel website (because my mobo is intel) and downloaded what looked like the correct one. When I installed it bad things happened.

The install started fine, then I hear a click, my screen goes blank, my computer shuts down to nothing, and the lights on everything are amber.... not good AT all. I shut down, start up, nothing but an amber light on my box.... shit.

Unplug ... leave for 30 secs... replug in... starts up... windows screen.. whew... a couple programs start and then CLICK off again. F#$@! I almost wept.

Unplugged, repeated above except held down F8 and selected "Restore previous good configuration". Windows starts up, everything is well, no problems anymore... thankyou MS for System Restore. I hear people say "shut it off" but I tell you now, if you're anything like me leave it ON people, leave it on.

Posted by Oorgo at November 30, 2004 10:57 AM
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THAT sounds very sucky. Sorry to read that.

Posted by: RP at November 30, 2004 01:16 PM

Could have been worse :) Now you have to think about adding more fans and one of those temperature sensor systems that fits in your drive bay! Hey, what could go wrong?!

Posted by: Arcterex at November 30, 2004 02:14 PM

Weird.. What app did you use? Try Hmonitor...

Posted by: Steve at December 1, 2004 07:00 AM
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