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canadiandiamondIt's been a pretty frustrating weekend all around, mainly due to stupid computer problems. The new machine keeps locking up on me in LOTRO, it's extremely frustrating especially since the weekend's when a lot of the bigger events go down and that's the worst time to have an unstable set-up. I'm hoping the new graphics drivers I installed last night will continue to work well; after it locked up a second time last night I searched for new drivers on a whim, as I only put up-to-date ones on a few weeks ago, and sure enough there was another new set from just 5 days ago. I installed those and it worked fine without a hitch for 4-5 hours or so last night, so I'm hoping that's a good sign. We'll see how it goes tonight as there's a bit more to do (one smaller raid at 5:30pm my time, and a continuation of last night at 10:30pm my time that I can attend for a little while). I just hope it holds up; it's extra frustrating when it prevents you from enjoying both your major form of entertainment for the weekend and the main way you stay in contact with your wife, ugh.
The cooling fan I ordered came in on Friday but when I brought my machine up to install it, it wouldn't fit. I'm not entirely sure it's a heating issue now, since I've had the side off of the PC and a fan blowing directly into it and on the gfx card and it still locks up. I'm thinking it's either a hardware (good lord please say it isn't) or some other software problem, and as stated above the new drivers held up well enough last night, so we'll see. I asked them to look into new gfx cards for me on Monday and find one with a better built-in fan that's not too expensive, though the thought of buying another new gfx card after just buying a fricking entirely new system less than 2 months ago is also frustrating, heh.
Other than that, I did finish a book I've been reading for awhile, which was number two in a series of two books. That was nice, to finish that up, even though the ending was a little meh. I may go and read for awhile now before the 5:30pm action, I've still got a bunch of books I'm in the middle of that I should get back to reading. That may help relax me a little too, that and a continued smooth performance tonight would be awesome.
This week's not too bad, work-wise, no court at all, and I've got a ticket for Blue Rodeo at the George St. Festival on Thursday night so there's that to look forward to as well. And I thiiiiiink next weekend is a long weekend, maybe? Though now that I think about it, it may be a civic holiday out here but I believe I have court in the city, dammit. >.< I think it's an Aion weekend too. We'll see what happens at any rate. Hope everyone else had a good weekend!
The cooling fan I ordered came in on Friday but when I brought my machine up to install it, it wouldn't fit. I'm not entirely sure it's a heating issue now, since I've had the side off of the PC and a fan blowing directly into it and on the gfx card and it still locks up. I'm thinking it's either a hardware (good lord please say it isn't) or some other software problem, and as stated above the new drivers held up well enough last night, so we'll see. I asked them to look into new gfx cards for me on Monday and find one with a better built-in fan that's not too expensive, though the thought of buying another new gfx card after just buying a fricking entirely new system less than 2 months ago is also frustrating, heh.
Other than that, I did finish a book I've been reading for awhile, which was number two in a series of two books. That was nice, to finish that up, even though the ending was a little meh. I may go and read for awhile now before the 5:30pm action, I've still got a bunch of books I'm in the middle of that I should get back to reading. That may help relax me a little too, that and a continued smooth performance tonight would be awesome.
This week's not too bad, work-wise, no court at all, and I've got a ticket for Blue Rodeo at the George St. Festival on Thursday night so there's that to look forward to as well. And I thiiiiiink next weekend is a long weekend, maybe? Though now that I think about it, it may be a civic holiday out here but I believe I have court in the city, dammit. >.< I think it's an Aion weekend too. We'll see what happens at any rate. Hope everyone else had a good weekend!
