livejournal-related news.

[baratron]

I've finally caught up with reading everyone else's livejournals! This might not sound like a big achievement, but Richard put some new memory into the computer the other day, and it doesn't seem to be completely compatible with the motherboard. Now, instead of Netscape crashing every hour or two, it won't stay up for more than a couple of minutes at a time. I've had to switch to using Opera, which is a lot more reliable - but even that's been crashing a couple of times a day! You try reading people's web journals when you can't get a bloody web browser to stay up!

Oh, and before anyone does - don't even mention lynx!

I put some new userpics up last week, so I now have the full complement of 10 that I'm entitled to as a paid user. I really like all of them, particularly the arty ones - they're all images I've made myself, although obviously I didn't take all of the original photos :) The pic accompanying this post is my absolute favourite of them, though it doesn't seem appropriate to use as my default userpic.

Comments

[lovingboth]

What memory in what motherboard? The blazingly obvious thing to do is to take it out again and see what happens...

[lovingboth]

Oh, I've an unwanted 64M/100MHz SDRAM lying around here if you want to try that.

[baratron.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the offer, but it won't help. The original memory is 64 MB of 60 ns FP DRAM - the new (incompatible) memory is 256MB of 100 MHz SDRAM. The motherboard is (apparently) a "crappy old TX Pentium motherboard".

Nah, we've swapped back to the original memory and things seem to be fine again. We'll have to get a new motherboard. Richard estimates that it'll cost about £200 to upgrade the computer with a new motherboard and case - he has a new processor spare from work machine shuffling, but needs a Pentium III motherboard to put it on. Don't suppose anyone's got one of those handy? :)

[lovingboth]

Er yes, that would cause problems.

The prices of new computers are falling rapidly at the moment as manufacturers seek to shift stocks. At the moment, I don't think you can build them yourself for the same money, but £200 for a P-III m/b and case is sixty to eighty pounds overly pessimistic.