The Weekend

Friday I got on a cleaning kick and cleaned, vacuumed, and rearranged the cave, correcting a few annoyances with the way I had my computer/studio setup, well, set up. I couldn’t really mess with the back of the rolling rack *or* the back of the computer. So I put the computer up on the desk [...]

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the Great Reinstall of 2009

Stories will be told, songs will be sung… many a campfire will be lit and… Oh, never mind. The music software on my DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) computer was getting unstable, I think because I messed in the registry. Rewiring Project5 into Sonar 8 would crash both every time, and several of my virtual instruments wouldn’t [...]

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Computer upgrade went smoothly for once…

It never boots up correctly after I do any sort of work inside the case, but experience has taught me to reseat the RAM sticks and then try it again, and that worked. I guess the RAM slots are just fickle on this mobo. Anyhow, the work was that I swapped out a gone-noisy Geforce 7600GT [...]

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Not much going on today

Chilling at home. My computer parts have shipped. Mostly from New Jersey but one little spare cable coming from California. Newegg is really on the ball. I should have the bulk of it (allowing the build) by this weekend. Maybe Sunday. I’m planning on blogging the build, with pictures and blow-by-blow commentary. We’ll see when it happens. [...]

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Embarrassing – Postlude

Well, they’re gone, and the house is clean. The dump trip hasn’t happened yet, but it will this weekend one way or the other. If I can’t get one of my friendswith a van to help me out I’m gonna just do multiple car trips. USA Canteen gig on Thursday and Players (Bay Cafe) gig [...]

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Motherboard Success

I won the ebay auction on the motherboard I want…. and I got it for less than half the retail price. Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe, not OEM, it comes with all the accessories and stuff (except for one thing, and I already have one of them.) So, I have case and motherboard. CPU (AMD 6000+ x2) [...]

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Productive

Having the main computer out of commission for a while, I’ve brought the laptop up to speed to temporarily take it’s place, as I described in the last post. Well, that paid off yesterday and today, because I’ve written and sequenced a brand new song. All that remains is to record the vocals. The lyrics [...]

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The autopsy is complete.

But no cause of death was found. There is no burnt component smell, nothing obvious pointing to why my frankenbox desktop computer became completely and inexplicably inert. It was probably the motherboard. At this point, that means replacing mobo, mem, and cpu, because what if it wasn’t the motherboard? I did find a dead potato [...]

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Der Komputer ist Kaput.

Tried a good power supply and nothing… it’s the motherboard. Or the CPU. Or any one of a dozen other fricking things. I’ll spare you a colorful description of the swearing I did. Can’t catch a break. On a happier note, my best friends youngest childs baptism was today. Adorable. The park later was fun [...]

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Woe. Woe I say.

So Friday, before going to my gig, I decided to fire up the computer (the tower, my main computer) so I could print out some sheet music our trumpet player needed. So I hit the power button. Nothing happened. I flipped the power switch up and down, and then hit the power button again. Nothing [...]

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