Hello Aleatorylamp,
We shall see how much I can accomplish today.
There are some holes in the case for various things like DB25 serial and parallel ports, DB15, and DB9 ports which I need to close up for good airflow but don't have the right size plates to cover them. I guess it is time to make a few.
Attempting to update Internet Explorer (which was necessary to install MS Visual Studio) was actually the most likely cause for the general system unreliability and crashes (besides disk and video weirdness).
The occasional missing volumes issue started a few years ago but was generally manageable with a reboot.
I don't know the cause, but perhaps it was the motherboard hinting that it was having problems.
We shall see if the new motherboard fixes those issues.
The odd program crashes pretty much started with the attempt to update Internet Explorer.
I hope that those issues were fixed with replacing files as recommended by the SFC utility.
The video problems probably started a few months ago and ended a couple weeks back.
I actually don't mind having extra muffin fans in the case and possibly even extra fans mounted on the case surface, but to have a fan mounted externally is really asking for trouble. My Desk is usually quite cluttered and the Computer needs to be as snag free as possible.
At this point, I want to just get it put back together to see how well it performs and then consider improvements.
There are also the possibility of getting a couple more machines in place and then maybe I will go back to the replacement Development Machine.
- Ivan.
- Ivan.
We shall see how much I can accomplish today.
There are some holes in the case for various things like DB25 serial and parallel ports, DB15, and DB9 ports which I need to close up for good airflow but don't have the right size plates to cover them. I guess it is time to make a few.
Attempting to update Internet Explorer (which was necessary to install MS Visual Studio) was actually the most likely cause for the general system unreliability and crashes (besides disk and video weirdness).
The occasional missing volumes issue started a few years ago but was generally manageable with a reboot.
I don't know the cause, but perhaps it was the motherboard hinting that it was having problems.
We shall see if the new motherboard fixes those issues.
The odd program crashes pretty much started with the attempt to update Internet Explorer.
I hope that those issues were fixed with replacing files as recommended by the SFC utility.
The video problems probably started a few months ago and ended a couple weeks back.
I actually don't mind having extra muffin fans in the case and possibly even extra fans mounted on the case surface, but to have a fan mounted externally is really asking for trouble. My Desk is usually quite cluttered and the Computer needs to be as snag free as possible.
At this point, I want to just get it put back together to see how well it performs and then consider improvements.
There are also the possibility of getting a couple more machines in place and then maybe I will go back to the replacement Development Machine.
- Ivan.
- Ivan.