Well, my computer isn’t so much dead, as it is temporarily out of commission.
See earlier this week: I leave my computer on all day so I can stream my music to my Palm while I am at work. And about halfway through the day, I lose the connection, and Orb starts telling me that my PC is no longer connected.
There are a million reasons that could have happened, Cable company fell asleep, backhoe fade, my PC hung, etc.
So I get home from work, and my PC is off. Odd, but not unheard of. Probably a power failure or something. I go to turn my computer on, and what happens? This horribly shrill, horribly loud beeping comes from my water cooling unit. Never a good thing, so I turn my PC off real quick-like.
Well, this is new, I think.
Turns out there was no water in my water cooler. A pinhole leak somewhere, or it’s evaporating through a relief valve somewhere in the pump or something. So as near as I can tell, when my cooler dried up, my processor got hot real quick, and shut down to avoid burning out.
I add water, and after a tense couple minutes of loud beeping, the beeping stops, and the water is circulating again. Yatta! My computer is fine the rest of the night. I fixed it!
Or maybe not so much.
I leave my computer off the next day, because I still don’t know why I’m losing water so quick. And when I get home, I boot up … and get one loud continuous tone from my water cooling pump. The water, which is still full, isn’t circulating at all.
So I’m finished with it. I don’t overclock anyway, so I don’t really need a water cooler. I’m going to install a decent heatsink/fan. I’ve ordered one from NewEgg, along with some Arctic Silver, and I’ll install it when it get here next week.
So for now, I’m limited to using my pathetic laptop, which was a cheap model I bought in Septermber ‘05 so I would have access to email & the web while I was in New York. I run presentations on it at church (lyrics to the worship songs), but that’s pushing it to the limit, so no Halflife2 or SW:Battlefront for me for a few days.
On the plus side, I was able to use the downtime as an excuse to do some reading, and I finished up “The Twelfth Card.” And next month, the next one in the series comes out in paperback.
I’ve got MegaTokyo books 1 & 2, an english-language version of a Hellsing manga (since I don’t speak or read Japanese), and some cheap Superman (non-graphic) novel about magic or something. And I still haven’t watched Kino’s Journey (Sorry, Ryan, I ended up getting the anime, not Firefly). So I’ll be able to survive without my PC for a few days.
Maybe 
