Sweet case & BF1942
Last night I got home to find my computer equipment waiting on my porch! I unpacked the case and motherboard. The case was honestly impressive. It had a laquored look to it, was jet black, has a see-through size panel of plexiglass set with a case fan that's got a blue light in it. On the top is an identical fan, and on the front are 6 blue diodes which emit the same blue light.
I unpacked the motherboard, set the case on a folded towel on my hard-wood floor in my "computer room", and installed the motherboard, DVD-burner, and hard drive. I plugged everything in, connected all the power and attached the case connectors. Then, I powered it on.
And nothing happened.
I was kind of concerned. I eventually discovered that my ATA-100 cable connector (which has little 'click and hold' things on the side to the motherboard) had pushed the pins of a fan power connector together. I broke that part of the ATA cable connector off and unbent the pins, and it powered on! Blue lights streaming out of the case, fans moving silently. I was pretty psyched.
But I was still concerned. I had chosen a motherboard that uses the same chipset as the motherboard I had in there before, but that's no gaurantee that Windows is going to boot. Usually this wouldn't be a real issue (given that I use Linux day-to-day), but I had a MoG Night (clan get-together) planned tonight, and didn't want to miss it as I'd been telling them in the forums that I'd be there. Fortunately, lilo didn't have a problem loading up Windows, so I was good to go! A couple reboots and a sound card install later and I was able to join my boys on Isaiah's "Sunny South" server.
I was on my game last night! Nearly every map I came away with a gold metal, and on some rounds *coughelalameincough* I totally ripped it up. The last time I played I was doing so bad that I renamed myself to "-=FODDER_BOY=-", which of course lead other people on the server to rename themselves to something witty. By the end we hardly knew who was who anymore =)
Anyway, I had a really good time playing with my MoG brothers last night. I wasn't on TeamSpeak, and initially my speakers were backwards (which got me killed a couple of times due to improper directional sound cues), but it was good to play with the guys (and girls) again. Hopefully I'll get more playtime in. The division has been less active of late, after the internal division centered around Mercy. We're getting it back on track though.
I unpacked the motherboard, set the case on a folded towel on my hard-wood floor in my "computer room", and installed the motherboard, DVD-burner, and hard drive. I plugged everything in, connected all the power and attached the case connectors. Then, I powered it on.
And nothing happened.
I was kind of concerned. I eventually discovered that my ATA-100 cable connector (which has little 'click and hold' things on the side to the motherboard) had pushed the pins of a fan power connector together. I broke that part of the ATA cable connector off and unbent the pins, and it powered on! Blue lights streaming out of the case, fans moving silently. I was pretty psyched.
But I was still concerned. I had chosen a motherboard that uses the same chipset as the motherboard I had in there before, but that's no gaurantee that Windows is going to boot. Usually this wouldn't be a real issue (given that I use Linux day-to-day), but I had a MoG Night (clan get-together) planned tonight, and didn't want to miss it as I'd been telling them in the forums that I'd be there. Fortunately, lilo didn't have a problem loading up Windows, so I was good to go! A couple reboots and a sound card install later and I was able to join my boys on Isaiah's "Sunny South" server.
I was on my game last night! Nearly every map I came away with a gold metal, and on some rounds *coughelalameincough* I totally ripped it up. The last time I played I was doing so bad that I renamed myself to "-=FODDER_BOY=-", which of course lead other people on the server to rename themselves to something witty. By the end we hardly knew who was who anymore =)
Anyway, I had a really good time playing with my MoG brothers last night. I wasn't on TeamSpeak, and initially my speakers were backwards (which got me killed a couple of times due to improper directional sound cues), but it was good to play with the guys (and girls) again. Hopefully I'll get more playtime in. The division has been less active of late, after the internal division centered around Mercy. We're getting it back on track though.
posted by Adam Skinner at 9/15/2004 11:55:00 AM
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