another one bites the dust

I know i said i’d put something up soon…I was getting into the swing of something left half done. went to bed, woke up this morning. My processor had cooked itself during the night. I normally keep my window open of a night time, for both me and the machine, but i was feeling unusually cold last night. I had the window closed and the heater on low. I don’t think it liked it. By some strange coincidence, it decided not to lock up and sit there as normal, but it actually managed to force a restart when the cpu hit boiling point, something I’ve never seen it do before. As a result, it looped this overheat-restart until it died completely.

Damages? no idea as to extent. might just be the processor, might be the motherboard too. I’ve seen  AMD Athlon 3200+ 2.2GHz 512kbit 754socket go for between £20 and £140 including shipping. The upper range labelling them as ‘rare’ and ‘historic’. This is of course, laughable bullshit.

With the holiday coming up after exams (trip around europe with the uni peoples) I’m in a dillema. Do I buy a  new processor risking that the motherboard may have gone too? Do I go for a whole new machine, wasting the potential of rather a large amount of the still-good components in my current box? The 2GB of DDR set me back £60-70, not that long back.  The graphics card is AGP, but it’s top of its class (bioshock on full settings and resolution, smooth as anything). My components may not be the newest out there, but they certainly hold their own, and I don’t want any of that to go to waste.

Delay

weeell, the tablet arrived this morning, and its rather awesome. Unfortunately, its all a bit harder than I’d anticipated. I could trace what I already have, but that would mean removing pages. It might come to that. CURSE MY LACK OF DRAWING SKILLS, CURSE THEM! Anyway, here’s a shot of the thing:

The drawing area is slightly overA4, so including border it’s rather large.

I promise I’ll get something up soon!

anyway, away I go. For sleeps.