Computer is still not well...
Jun. 26th, 2014 03:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
teyrnonAs mentioned in earlier entries I've been having computer issues. The computer I use for everyday stuff is not doing all that well. The bad capacitors on the motherboard have been replaced. That took care of some of the problems but there's still something very wrong. The graphics adapter is behaving strangely, the FPU fails most of the tests I throw at it, and both Windows and Linux are showing all kinds of interesting errors. This could indicate that the FPU portion of the processor has somehow gone bad on me. It could also be the graphics adapter. Right now I'm leaning towards the VGA card being the culprit.
I ran memtest on it for a couple days and after a hundred passes not a single error came up. This leaves me fairly certain that whatever is wrong it's not the RAM.
Today I've finally gotten the hard drive out of it and into a new machine that was put together this past weekend. Yeah, I finally put something in that case that's been sitting on my livingroom floor for the past five years. It was amazing how much dust had collected inside of it. I've finished copying my files over to its system drive and there's a good that I need to sort through. I've run a few disk testing programs on the old hard drive and it's free of errors thus far. I think I can rule out hard disk failure as a culprit.
I ran memtest on it for a couple days and after a hundred passes not a single error came up. This leaves me fairly certain that whatever is wrong it's not the RAM.
Today I've finally gotten the hard drive out of it and into a new machine that was put together this past weekend. Yeah, I finally put something in that case that's been sitting on my livingroom floor for the past five years. It was amazing how much dust had collected inside of it. I've finished copying my files over to its system drive and there's a good that I need to sort through. I've run a few disk testing programs on the old hard drive and it's free of errors thus far. I think I can rule out hard disk failure as a culprit.
