Gaming Computer Down

So Friday night I go to install a drawing program that I want to use to help design things for the woodcarving business my husband is starting and my optic drive won't open.  So I take the cover off and figured out that it was definitely not due to it being loose or poorly seated.  As I'm checking it out with the computer still on so I can keep tesing if I can get it open, the power supply suddely starts doing a weird surging of the fan.  Needless to say, I got that turned off, pulled that out and it is DEAD!

So do to multiple things going on and wanting to be sure the way the power supply died, the computer is sitting over at the little home town tech's shop I've used before for computer issues.  Timing would not have been any different if I tired to do it myself since it turned out he didn't have my size of power supply.  So you won't see me around much until we get this all sorted out.  On a good note, I tuest this guy and even with him doing the part ordering rather than myself, the price range is right in there with what I was looking at for the brand he recommended anyway.  He actually doesn't like the brand of power supply I did have and well I don't either since it was loud and finally died.

I decided to go computer shopping and found a disturbing trend when actually going to retailers for them.  It seems they are going for selling dumb downed desktops and all in ones.  All of them needed a video card added and probably needed a power supply upgrade to do it on top of the prices they were already charging for them.  Seeing this trend, I'm thinking if I wanrt better processing and video card, I'm going to just have my tech guy do it with the case I have already since it is a good one.  I'm actually disappointed in one retailer where I used to go in and play with any computer and they always high end options so I could compare and then lug home if I needed something in a pinch.  Those days are gone.

Anyway, I'll be back in the game at some point here in the coming week, but still have this laptop to touch base.  Boy, it is going to be interesting trying to do my job on this thing.  I probably could see if I can get my big monitor to work on it for visability help, but the fun issue will be a touch mouse with not so touchy feeling fingers.  HA!

:(  Hope it comes back nice and ready to go with minimal issues, and good luck with the job in the meantime!

Good Luck with it!

Actually biting the bullet and upgrading the 5.5 year hold motherboard and updating the graphics card that is about 4 years old just so the system is pretty much new and might stay with the times for another 5 years before I have to fork out money at it.  HA!  Definitely not going high end as the parts are putting the cost 800 bucks over what I'm going to fork out right now, but it should keep up for a couple years and then maybe slow down a bit after that for games.  Though I can't say I have every had a computer system that would crank out more than 30FPS in my life.  So this should be interesting!  Shiney new computer stuffs and my reliable fiber to the house - YES the boonies can see modern technologies even if I live 13 miles from my ISP with lots of deer and other critters and three neighbors within a quarter mile of my house.  

So this means I'll be without the desktop a little longer, but should be good for some time to come when all is said and done.

Miss you Bri! When will you be back online with us?

Got the computer back with a new power supply.  A really nice modular one so no need to have all them extra cables in there.  Upgrade parts are on order so it goes back to get that all worked out once they are all in.  So I has the old setup for now and will be around in the next few days.