Greetings and Salutations!
So tonight is going to be extremely light. I had to make a trip down to Glorious Home Office to see new IT Commissar as Laptop was toast. This being the like 18th? or so time that it shit the bed, the new IT Commissar told me to actually come into the Home Office, and they’d pay the mileage.
Works for me!
So not only did I get to take a 3-4 hour drive on company time, I got paid for it, as well as a new lappie out of the deal.
Tell you what however, it’s been a bad week for me and computers. AFTER the initial report of the work PC doing the crash and burn on Wednesday, Thursday had it’s own challenges that almost made me cry like a bitch.
My front room, home to the “Big Country Museum of War and Mayhem” is also my workspace. I have a workbench, loading bench and my gaming PC there, as well as my dedicated People’s Glorious Tractor Factory spot.
Well, I had a bottle of water on the bench with my gaming pc under it. By all rights, it should have been fine. However I did not figure on Bob-The-Asshole-Cat to decide to play fuck-fuck-chase-chase, and run across the top of the bench, and knock the water over.
The water thankfully missed the MAJORITY of the PC.
HOWEVER
A wee bit did get through the top.
The case is pretty much open on the front with 3 fans, the back with two BIG fans, and the top, which is open with a very tight mesh screen. Lots of cooling for it… The Processor cooling tower I think is liquid cooled, self contained. Not sure as Spawn #1 built it, and he’s no longer speaking to me, mores the pity.
It’s been a minute since the interior has been ‘blown out’ completely of dust, so it was easy to spot just where the water did or did not hit. I cleaned everything up, and since the thing was still running, I figured I was good.
Until I wasn’t.
The mouse was frozen, and the power button had ceased to work. Turns out that the plugs on the motherboard? The ones that controlled the USB 2.0 connector(s) and the JFP1, JFP2: Front Panel Connectors had ONE drop of water that hit each one. I ended up having to unplug the pin connectors, dry everything, and WAIT.
Thanks be to Crom or God or (insert your Deity of Choice) after about two hours, a lot of prayer and begging for mercy to the Computer Gods, I reset everything and YAY!
It’s back and working.
I’m VERY pleased with this, as while I was waiting, I went to price a replacement board. Now I got this as a leftover from Spawn when he upgraded HIS rig. The motherboard came out in 2016…. I figured “…how expensive could it be?”
Wow
Even for an older board, $160+ shipping is pricey.
And never mind the fact that I’d be without my rig?
Yeah… it would have sucked.
So THAT frens is what has been happening here.
And as far as the current Polly-Ticks?
Well, anything that makes the current group of fucktards, on BOTH sides of the aisle wail, gnash their teeth, and scream and cry like the fucking cunts they are is a good fucking thing.
I sooooo look forward to the next round of mental breakdowns.
There are reports state that nationally, the suicide count is like 2500% above the norm since the election.
You know what I call that?
A good fucking start.
If they keep it up, we might actually run out of drunken blue haired lezbos, crazy wine aunts and deranged anti-American Karens by January. IRL I know it won’t happen, but a man can dream right? And the ones not offing themselves? Who’ve sworn off sex and reproduction? Even fucking better. That means they’ve stopped pissing in our collective gene pool, and I’m comfortable with that.
So More Later
Big Country
Damn cats ALWAYS wait until that one time when you leave the cap off the bottle.
Yeah. Cats are assholes. Seriously.
I had one once that liked slowly walking across the fireplace mantle knocking things off on purpose. No, really – he’d sit there, stare right at you – the put his paw out and slowly push things off the mantle. It’s almost like he wanted to see how long you’d wait before you leapt forward to try and save whatever it was he was pushing to it’s destruction. And it just wasn’t fireplace mantles either – it was anywhere that was higher than ground level that had an edge he could push things off of. Asshole cat.
And yes, I’m the survivor of that conflict.
Video games?
“It’s a privilege to be a shitlord, Murdoch, and here you are playing vidya like a faggot in heat.”
You lucked out BC, those pin headers on the main board are strictly low voltage logic signals, which is probably why you avoided major damage.
I had a similar sphincter puckering moment this past summer. Was at my brother’s place for a BBQ when I noticed his A/C condenser was absolutely caked with dust and lint (as apparently he never learned one needs to keep it clean). I hosed it off, and got it spotless. But then it started acting all weird, with the contactor inside chattering and doing all manner of weird shit. Little did I know there was a logic board inside the condensing unit, and I’d gotten it wet. Just about shit myself on that discovery, considering what that board was likely to cost.
Dragged out the air compressor, and blew it off thoroughly (after shutting off the power). On restoring the power, it kicked right on normally and worked perfectly, so I got exceptionally lucky. Lesson learned, as I have been hosing off coils for 3o years with units under power, and never had an issue before. But most didn’t have circuit boards in them, either. Just wiring, a contactor and a couple of capacitors.
I’m ok with cats, but would never have one in my own home, because they are (at least periodically) assholes. Plus they chew on shit, and I have too much expensive gear (amps, speakers, synths and effects modules, plus associated cabling) setup to risk it getting fucked up by a cat with the zoomies, or just a bitchy, destructive attitude.