9.07.2018

so turns out i was wrong and my original computer is fine. the real punchline is that literally all i needed to do was try a different monitor but a week of pounding CBD pills and vaping wax can apparently make you pretty dumb, dumb enough to ignore one of the cardinal rules of technological troubleshooting i've known since i was friggin 12. also it makes me a terrible speller - just tried to spell rules "rools" and then "technilogical" because i was spelling it from memory phonetically. i for sure reached peak derp on this vacation which feels right to recap: >first my video card blows out >i yank it out assuming the onboard will pick up >after attaching my tv with a hdmi to vga converter it still didn't work >figure it must be the motherboard and any visual elements are just fried >try to grab some files through my home network, realize only default folders are shared >can't access the exact files i want so i don't bother grabbing any >said 'fuck it' and ordered a new cpu off newegg, find one with twice the specs as my old for like $90 >2 day shipping? yeah i'll fuckin pay it >FUCK it's the weekend gotta wait for processing so i wait 4 days total >delivery day arrives, after checking that the gate was open every 20 minutes for 10 hours i still miss fedex >fucking second gate was still open, delivery guy didn't even try it or see it, what an asshole >someone volunteers to pick it up for me across town, i'm saved! >oh no their uber driver ignored their instructions to take the toll bridge, now they're stuck in construction traffic >FedEx lied, my package isn't at the facility yet and won't be for over an hour >late that night, my computer arrives safely home >said to myself "i know what i'm doing!" >proceed to yank hard drive out of old computer and stick it in new one >screen still isn't read it? is it the adapter??? >try other screen, it works! yeah adapter doesn't work >hard drives freaks the fuck out, i try to backup my files to wipe drive but it won't work cause it's GIGS >dick around with it, even try reverting to a backup point "it won't affect your files!" >there is no more safe mode! BIOS screen looks nothing like it did 15 years ago, GO FIGURE >attach it as secondary hard drive >try to run recovery again, now there's 200 megs instead of 90000000 gigs >"what the fuck i wiped my hard drive" >mourn the loss of 10 years of files and all my website work >it hurts so bad >..........wait a fucking minute >THE ADAPTER >DIDN'T >WORK >reassemble old computer, turn it on >shrill beeps emitting from motherboard >oh no it's really over >woops no just forgot to put any ram back in, here we go >.... >.......... >.......................... >my computer still fucking works >i have two computers EXCEPT NOW NEITHER CAN CONNECT TO MY TV

posted by Passenger Pigeon @ 10:49