What a differnce 36 hours will make.

OK so it wasn't some weird goofy thing (goofy bad not goofy funny) that was making my HD go all Wacky. I've traced it down to the actual Southbridge RAID controller chip on the Motherboard. Neither old nor new drivers are seeming to fix it.

So I'm going to do what a normal computer type person will do... I order a SATA hard drive controller card. If that doesn't work then I will have a 200GB hard drive for sale.

So while I was dicking around with my computer last night I heard this "click" and then a second later "whirrrrrrrrrrrrr" and then nothing. I look over to my LINUX box and it's no longer on. OK time for a little background. My LINUX box is now about 3 years old, being state of the art 4 years ago. I built it for about $300 and some spare parts I had lying around. The only problem that box has ever had was the motherboard goes goofy (goofy bad) after about 840 hours of uptime (thats about 35 days) . This box wasn't just sitting there either I actually had it doing stuff; such as Web Server, Mail Server, Secure telnet Box, experimination, spare parts, looking for aliens, looking for a cure for cancer, dns resolution. Oh and don't forget the most important part... it was my main file server till about 3 months ago. Now it's just my main porn server.

Now that everyone is on the same page, I start trouble shooting.... now given the problems I've been having with "Heritic" as of later I started to think that maybe just maybe it was the motherboard. Wait though I've eaten a couple of power supplies on this puppy... Lets try that first... plug in Power Supply from other computer. "Click WHIRRRRR" ah it works.

The good news is it's easy to fix. The bad news it's a couple of days before I get the Power Supply since I'm not feeling like paying more then $20 for it.

Ok so that is a summary of all my computer problems for the last 36 hours. I know tons of fun.. then again your that goofy pair of eyeballs that just read it. (goofy funny, not goofy bad)