Solved One Problem...
Feb. 2nd, 2004 08:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
my_window_seat...only to find another. Which is the way it always seems to fucking work.
Replaced the (thankfully) unsoldered CMOS battery - and rebooted to find that my RAM has gone from 500 to 333. And before some smarty-pants says 'hey, that's not possible - RAM doesn't come or go in those increments' - thank you, thank you, I KNOW this - but my COMPUTER does not know this. It has had screwy RAM counts ever since I got it 5 years ago, and is a primary example of what one gets when one doesn't know jack about buying a computer - but does so anyway - off of E-Bay.
I have always had screwy RAM counts, and now I am 1/3 less of the screwy RAM I had. Which effectively makes this box nothing more than a fancy web browser, for all intensive purposes, until I can get it fixed. Because Photoshop and the rest of the apps I need are only going to gargle and wheeze and more than likely crash if I even attempt to use them at present rates. Which I'm not even going to try to do, because it will only make me more frustrated than I already am.
This week started out shitty, and hasn't yet shown signs of improving.
Fuck me gently with a chainsaw...
Replaced the (thankfully) unsoldered CMOS battery - and rebooted to find that my RAM has gone from 500 to 333. And before some smarty-pants says 'hey, that's not possible - RAM doesn't come or go in those increments' - thank you, thank you, I KNOW this - but my COMPUTER does not know this. It has had screwy RAM counts ever since I got it 5 years ago, and is a primary example of what one gets when one doesn't know jack about buying a computer - but does so anyway - off of E-Bay.
I have always had screwy RAM counts, and now I am 1/3 less of the screwy RAM I had. Which effectively makes this box nothing more than a fancy web browser, for all intensive purposes, until I can get it fixed. Because Photoshop and the rest of the apps I need are only going to gargle and wheeze and more than likely crash if I even attempt to use them at present rates. Which I'm not even going to try to do, because it will only make me more frustrated than I already am.
This week started out shitty, and hasn't yet shown signs of improving.
Fuck me gently with a chainsaw...
