Hardware

My latest mini-hardware problems have been solved! I think anyway. I suddenly started getting random lockups when going into 3d Games. I would start up UT2k4, or Quake3, and a few seconds in I’d hear a click from the hard drive (like a park and unpark) and then it’d go on full and my system […]

Well, once again it’s after midnight and I’m just thinking “Ok, so I’ve gotten the prelims down, time to get to work.” I hate it when that happens, especially for the third or fourth night in a row. Anyway, I picked up a new DVD drive today (an Optorite DD1601, which does dual layer (8.5G)

Anyone local got an old monitor that I can have? Nothing special, 15″ would be fine. I used to have three or four of these hanging around here and there, and it’s great when you’re playing with a new system (as I am now), but I seem to have given them all away to people

Hehehe, from the latest kernel config help. I originally was going to post this before the election, but I forgot it was here and left it sitting as a draft. Does this mean I have RAID6 to blame? CONFIG_MD_RAID6: WARNING: RAID-6 is currently highly experimental. If you use it, there is no guarantee whatsoever that

Bah, hardware seems to hate me. I spent, literally, all weekend fixing my latest batch of issues. Ever since I’ve gotten the computers up and going at the house my webserver has had these odd random freezes. Late last week I figured that it seemed to be one of the SATA harddrives that houses the

Well, not that sort of dual, but with the addition of an overpriced, and overly large wall-wart-ed power adapter, I now have both my Windows and Linux box with dual monitors. The KVM that doesn’t like wireless mouse from a few months ago gets it’s power from the ps/2 connection, but had a 9V connection

md1 : active raid5 hdg1[3] hdh1[2] hdf1[0] 156301184 blocks level 5, 32k chunk, algorithm 0 [3/2] [U_U] [>………………..] recovery = 0.6% (513408/78150592) finish=254.4min speed=5084K/sec Many thanks to Cat5 who picked up and dropped off a new hard drive for me. Decided to go with the larger 120G drive so I have a bit of extra

Ok, so my earlier relief about the computer that houses arcterex.net being ok has been unfounded. A couple of lockups tonight were isolated to a hard drive that was dying, and after it was pulled out and attached to a different system, died. An 80G drive that probably cost me $200 a year decided that

Normally I’m pretty good at troubleshooting hardware, but sometimes I just miss stuff. On sunday I did some summer cleaning of computers, blowing out dust, making sure connections were tight, etc. I did naked, the arcterex.net server last sometime sunday afternoon or evening. After blowing out all the dust I put things back together. My

Looks like my old Hawking 2 port PS/2 KVM is starting to bite the big one. It can’t seem to deal with my wireless mouse anymore, which means I have a KV, which is far less than 1/3rd as useful as a full KVM. I ran into town this evening and found a little I/O