{"id":887,"date":"2008-12-13T23:21:17","date_gmt":"2008-12-13T12:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/?p=887"},"modified":"2008-12-13T23:21:17","modified_gmt":"2008-12-13T12:21:17","slug":"my-computer-has-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2008\/12\/13\/my-computer-has-died\/","title":{"rendered":"My computer has died."},"content":{"rendered":"

The title says it all.<\/p>\n

I haven’t worked out what the problem is. <\/p>\n

Vista complained a couple of times that S.M.A.R.T. reported that the HDD was about to fail – and then pointed to a healthy RAID set, which undermined the claim.<\/p>\n

The machine would reboot without notice – well unless you count one wailing beep of the motherboard as the system shut-down.<\/p>\n

I am hoping it is just an extreme recurrence of my CPU overheating issues<\/a>, but after clumsily cleaning away the dust just like last time, the machine now won’t even stay up for a few seconds.<\/p>\n

My plan is to buy some new thermal paste, clean it up more thoroughly and hope. If that fails, I am in the market for a new fridge<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I haven’t paid any attention to the CPU and chipset market for 3 years. I have been reading (on my fall-back machine: a Pentium 2, 233 Mhz, 128 MB RAM. Wheee!) a few articles on selecting between chipsets and I have been impressed with how poorly they are written. <\/p>\n

Any recommendations on good reading? (or, please, just tell me what chipset to buy! You know I trust you for recommendations!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The title says it all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32,31],"tags":[226,326],"class_list":["post-887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-oddthinking","category-geek","tag-computer-parts","tag-motherboards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=887"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":889,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887\/revisions\/889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}