Well I’m now starting back at college… *yawn*. So that’s my new excuse for posting even less on here than normal, although I will post a fair bit if there is anything remotly interesting :P

Oh and I’m now waiting for Royal Mail to give me my insurance money for my graphics card; I sent the form today so in a day or two I hope to have a cheque or something…
Edit: I’m still waiting…

- Fr3d

I guess this is getting pretty boring now… Oh well… :P

I have emailed Royal Mail and Overclockers several times over the last couple of weeks, and I hope things are getting better. I got a claim form to send off (which I will send tommorow) to claim for my graphics card, which is good news at last.

Apart from that, I don’t have much else to write about… Well I started back at college a few days ago, but that’s hardly what I would call interesting…

I’ll try to think up some better stuff soon! :P

- Fr3d

Well isn’t this wonderful?!… Not.

First my motherboard broke (see here and here for more info), and now my graphics card is broken! It was a (pretty much) brand new card, I’d only been using it for about 3 or 4 days after I got it before the motherboard packed in.

And now, to top it all off, Royal Mail and/or Overclockers UK have managed to misplace my almost-brand-new, £200 graphics card! :|
(Also, as I was on holiday it’s been lost now for over two weeks so what hope have I/they of finding it now?!)

I am in contact with OcUK and will be in contact with R.M. too if this isn’t sorted out very quickly… Back to gaming at 800×600 with no AntiAliasing or AnisotropicFiltering for now I guess…

Well I have been in email contact with DFI (the manufacturer of my motherboard) and I would swear by now I’ve tried every combination of hardware I can…! With the TechSupport’s help and advice I seem to have narrowed it down to my graphics card being at fault in regards to the errors with it, although the Tech guy also said that my Chipset heatsink shouldn’t be as hot as I said it was (far too hot to touch) and they may need to take another look at it.

*Sigh*… Why they couldn’t look at it when they had the board last time I don’t know, but I’m not sending it off untill my graphics card works again.

So I’m back on my GeForce 4 Ti 4200 for now, although I fixed my RAM issue! The board limits the speed, unless it’s manually set, when you have more than one slot occupied! Stupid, but at least its easily avoidable…
Perhaps a case of RTFM!! :P

Well as some of you know (or don’t know) I haven’t been on my normal PC for the last three weeks to to a motherboard failure (so I used my Server as a PC instead) but I received my board back yesterday!

This is all very well and good, except that the repair guys seem to have broken more than they fixed

For a start, I can no longer reboot my PC! I have to fully shutdown the computer, wait a few seconds and then boot it up again, or windows does not recognise my Graphics Card properly and I get “glitches” all over the screen. Also, my hardware accelerated sound no longer works. I can’t play any games whether or not Windows has detected my card, as it crashes the PC.

Also, the board often refuses to detect either my shiny new 160GB Maxtor harddisk, or my slightly older 80GB one, also a Maxtor. Both are SerialATA and also in good condition.

Oh yes, last but not least, my memory! It runs at 333MHz when I have my 512MB and 1024MB sticks in… But at 400MHz (which is the normal speed for it) when I only have the 1024MB stick in… So it seems to me that yet another thing is broken! It’s funny though, as I’ve just been using that same stick in my server and it was working fine there…

Anyway, I’m waiting now for a reply to my two thousand character technical support email… Zzz…

Oh yes another thing..: I was forced to reinstall Windows again yesterday… So you’ll have to excuse me from being a little lazy to post on here as I’m still getting the system the way I like it…