Friday

Downtime

Posting around here has been slow of late, I know. All my grades came back. What can I say? At least I'm consistent. All the same grade. Except for Ethics. At least I passed all of my classes, though I really didn't do as well in Cyberlaw as I thought I had. I guess that'll teach me to think a test is a lot of fun. I probably treated it that way. Ah well, at least I enjoyed it. And I got a B in ethics, so at least I'm a little ahead of the average ethically.

Started my internship at the local Corporation-That-Shall-Not-Be-Named. I won't blog about anything there specifically, but I will say that today I helped proofread and re-draft a Letter of Intent going to a big Japanese Firm. That was a lot of fun. And I've got to be there fairly early tomorrow, so I've got to cut this kind of short. I'm not sure how the rest of the semester will shape up, but so far, it's been okay - now if only I could get my computer working with the new AIW card. Bleah. Stupid imcompatibility issues... Tomorrow, the ultimate upgrade! A new Mobo. I've never installed a motherboard before. I've done pretty much everything else - even the power supply. I've installed OS's. I've swapped out hard drives. I've replaced RAM, sound cards, video cards, network cards, etc., etc., etc... Tomorrow, I get a new motherboard for the first time, and I'm a little intimidated by it. I'm going to scavenge as much as I can out of the old system - processor, hard drives, DVD roms. But there's no telling how much of it will work until I've got the motherboard in hand. Here's hoping all goes well!

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

If you want to keep old parts with the new MB, most of them will work without complaints, but there are a couple you'll want to check before you get started, namely the CPU, RAM, and video card.

CPU - Check two things: FSB speed and clock speed compatibility. Some motherboard & processor combinations will have incompatible frontside bus speeds, and sometimes certain mobo's just plain can't talk to certain processor lines.

RAM - Simple here: make sure the mobo will handle the speed of RAM you're using.

Video card - only important if you're using an AGP card - just make sure the card works with the new mobo's voltage and AGP speed.

If you knew all this stuff already, more power to you and be on your merry way. Just trying to help you avoid the frustration of (possibly) more hardware trouble.

Good luck! 

Posted by Keiran Halcyon

Anonymous said...

Well, good luck with that. I'm still trying to figure out how to get my hands on the proper screwdriver so I can try cracking my computer open, and all I need to do is re-seat a few things and use a little TarnX on some connections. Supposedly that will fix my screen flickering problems. But first, the screwdriver! 

Posted by Jennifer

Anonymous said...

You need to crack open your computer? I've got a screwdriver on my key chain - the Swiss Tech Util-Key. So let me know if you need to borrow it. 

Posted by Zach

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