http://www.jasondunn.com/more-technology-dysfunction-100 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:54:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.jasondunn.com/more-technology-dysfunction-100/comment-page-1#comment-145 The Personal Blog of Jason Dunn » Blog Archive » My Technology Life is On Hold Fri, 19 Jan 2007 16:39:05 +0000 http://www.jasondunn.com/more-technology-dysfunction-100#comment-145 [...] That’s a picture of the guts of my Shuttle SD11G5 rig - 2 GB of RAM, 2.13 Ghz Pentium M CPU, 16x DL DVD burner, and a 150 GB Western Digital RaptorX drive. Where’s the Shuttle? I had to send it back to Industry City, California, under RMA to get looked at because of that problem with the video cards. So I’ve been using my 17″ widescreen Fujitsu laptop to do all my real work on. My friends sometimes laugh at how many computers I have in my office, but this is one instance where having computing redundancy saved me. The combination of hosted Exchange and FolderShare remains absolutely killer and core to my ability to work on any PC I have configured with those two solutions. [...] [...] That’s a picture of the guts of my Shuttle SD11G5 rig – 2 GB of RAM, 2.13 Ghz Pentium M CPU, 16x DL DVD burner, and a 150 GB Western Digital RaptorX drive. Where’s the Shuttle? I had to send it back to Industry City, California, under RMA to get looked at because of that problem with the video cards. So I’ve been using my 17″ widescreen Fujitsu laptop to do all my real work on. My friends sometimes laugh at how many computers I have in my office, but this is one instance where having computing redundancy saved me. The combination of hosted Exchange and FolderShare remains absolutely killer and core to my ability to work on any PC I have configured with those two solutions. [...]

]]> http://www.jasondunn.com/more-technology-dysfunction-100/comment-page-1#comment-108 Damion Chaplin Wed, 03 Jan 2007 03:52:40 +0000 http://www.jasondunn.com/more-technology-dysfunction-100#comment-108 I had a problem about this time last year where the motherboard was being fried by surges coming in through the video card. It could be a surge, generated by a faulty monitor PSU, that's frying each card you're putting in. It may have even travelled through the vid card and hurt the mobo a little... I had a problem about this time last year where the motherboard was being fried by surges coming in through the video card. It could be a surge, generated by a faulty monitor PSU, that’s frying each card you’re putting in. It may have even travelled through the vid card and hurt the mobo a little…

]]> http://www.jasondunn.com/more-technology-dysfunction-100/comment-page-1#comment-107 Jason Dunn Tue, 02 Jan 2007 21:04:18 +0000 http://www.jasondunn.com/more-technology-dysfunction-100#comment-107 Did some more debugging, called Shuttle...they suggested I try the on-board video. I had completely forgotten that this thing even HAD on board video - my last Shuttle didn't. So I yanked the video card, and voila, it now boots. So what are the odds that I had TWO dead video cards? I'm suspecting that perhaps the Shuttle is killing the video cards, but that's hard to imagine. I'm going back today to swap out this video card and we'll see what happens... Did some more debugging, called Shuttle…they suggested I try the on-board video. I had completely forgotten that this thing even HAD on board video – my last Shuttle didn’t. So I yanked the video card, and voila, it now boots. So what are the odds that I had TWO dead video cards? I’m suspecting that perhaps the Shuttle is killing the video cards, but that’s hard to imagine. I’m going back today to swap out this video card and we’ll see what happens…

]]> http://www.jasondunn.com/more-technology-dysfunction-100/comment-page-1#comment-104 OSUKid7 Tue, 02 Jan 2007 18:23:41 +0000 http://www.jasondunn.com/more-technology-dysfunction-100#comment-104 D'oh! aroma, never say something like that - figures, now <a href="http://www.jasondunn.com/thoughts-media-server-problems-104" rel="nofollow">something far worse</a> happens. :( Best of luck fixing everything. D’oh! aroma, never say something like that – figures, now something far worse happens. Best of luck fixing everything.

]]> http://www.jasondunn.com/more-technology-dysfunction-100/comment-page-1#comment-103 ctmagnus Tue, 02 Jan 2007 18:10:41 +0000 http://www.jasondunn.com/more-technology-dysfunction-100#comment-103 I had the no video/full RPM thing on my Tecra M4 a while ago, but that's where the similarities end. It's scheduled to go under the knife today. :worried: I had the no video/full RPM thing on my Tecra M4 a while ago, but that’s where the similarities end. It’s scheduled to go under the knife today. :worried:

]]> http://www.jasondunn.com/more-technology-dysfunction-100/comment-page-1#comment-101 aroma Tue, 02 Jan 2007 14:13:18 +0000 http://www.jasondunn.com/more-technology-dysfunction-100#comment-101 Surely it can only get better from here, right? Surely it can only get better from here, right?

]]>