There be dragons here

Written by vtluu on July 17th, 2002

It’s been a relatively unevent past couple weeks; my time has been mostly divided between work and Neverwinter Nights. Last night, my character killed her first dragon:

[Dyrennestyl and slain dragon]

Did a few upgrades on my computer systems… Got a GeForce4 Ti 4200 video card for my primary workstation, moved some drives over to my secondary machine.

While upgrading my secondary system (a 1200MHz AMD Athlon Thunderbird machine built out of inexpensive components), I discovered that the CPU cooling fan did not spin and had likely stopped spinning since the last BIOS upgrade a year ago. It turns out I had upgraded the system with the firmware for the wrong systemboard, as when I corrected that issue the CPU cooler started working normally once again. The most amazing thing is that the system has never shown any problems, despite the CPU and heatsink heating up to 80-90 degrees Celsius.

 

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