Going through a fun 2 months. 3rd machine died last night, formally announced this morning. I'm experiencing multiple hardware failures across multiple machines: video cards, hard disks, mainboards, CPUs and RAM. Nice upgrading job I did! The smell of burning silicon clings to the air. If you hear in the news that someone in the northeast US died in a house fire caused by computers, that was me. :D I'm trying to handle parts as best I can, do very conservative overclocking, using appropriate thermal compounds, heat sinks, and fans, but apparently I've made mistakes.
I have one machine running stable which I haven't attempted to upgrade, but will do so today, as I need to test some hardware. I've got my copy of the CVS in multiple places, so it should survive. I'm down to two machines: a workstation and a gateway/web, and the gateway/web is going offline for testing. The gateway/web itself was originally only web, but has been filling in for the gateway which was the first to die, but may eventually be resurrected. Second to die was a DOA replacement for the first mainboard. Third last night was intended to replace the initial gateway. A third machine may be up, or it may have died already. It started constant beep, meaning thermal overheat, which usually spells death for CPU & mainboard. But I shut it off within 5 seconds somaybe it'll still work after I reassess the condition of the thermal solution. Beyond hardware, I'm having software issues, and a few OSes need to have the disks repartitioned and reformatted and the OS and software reinstalled. This is all very time consuming so any responses may be delayed. I've read the messages and want to test some things and learn more about the DynAPI and submit any tested patches, but it'll have to wait. :p Leif ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by OSTG. Have you noticed the changes on Linux.com, ITManagersJournal and NewsForge in the past few weeks? Now, one more big change to announce. We are now OSTG- Open Source Technology Group. Come see the changes on the new OSTG site. www.ostg.com _______________________________________________ Dynapi-Dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
