Frustration
I’m so frustrated I could sit down and cry.
And I’m just a step away from it yet for wanting to cry over this, after all that’s been happening, is so ridiculous.
Remember my processor woes? The bent pins?
Well day before yesterday I finally got my new processor, a AMD Sempron64 2800+.
I installed it last night and booted up into Debian and proceeded to updating/apt-getting.
I cancelled the apt-get upgrade as it was hogging bandwidth and Chennette had this desire to use the net. I ssh’d in later and updated a few 100kb. 11s to go and it froze. I rebooted and it said it failed crc check.
I booted into Knoppix (it’s installed on the harddrive) and eventually got kernel panic…twice.
And now I can’t boot the machine!
So, how am I even supposed to run memtest or fdisk?
Why can’t I boot the machine? Is something loose? Was it not the processor all along?
*sobs*
it’s all a learning experience – what has my life taught you if not that the bumps are the things that make it interesting…see what expertise you gain from this one
Comment by Chennette — Thursday 12th, October 2006 @ 11:35 pm
I know that and that’s why I was fine with the processor.
I think now I’m just so tired…I’m at the end of my rope! :-p
Don’t feel guilty! I don’t mind you being sick. I wish you weren’t but I don’t mind and it’s not an imposition and if we test positive I won’t hate you. That’s life.
But I think death, illness, fasting and now…I want to cry about the stupid computer. I *sooo* have my priorities right, no?
Comment by Lilandra — Thursday 12th, October 2006 @ 11:39 pm
What exactly is it doing? I know my father had a problem with the heat sink on the processor not doing its job. A lot of modern systems will just shut themselves down if they overheat. An extra fan fixed his problem. Since you’re obviously running a pretty powerful processor, check to make sure your cooling is sufficient. Just a hunch.
Comment by Tavis — Monday 16th, October 2006 @ 12:44 am
It was the RAM!
It works now…however…however…I trashed Debian.
Comment by Lilandra — Monday 16th, October 2006 @ 2:50 am