Hi folks, two of my computers failed last week, both with hard drive errors. I've sort of managed to rescue the spare, this one, but it's suddenly very flaky and crashes regularly. It (usually) reboots each time, but just occasionally I get a Kernel Panic, before a successful reboot.
The other machine, my main machine, will run from a live distro, but not from the main HDD. I've managed to archive all, or most, or my stuff to a NAS, so hopefully I've not lost any work,
So now I'm going to have to do two full rebuilds. The flaky machine (this one!) I'm ripping the mobo out and I've bought myself a brand new MSI B450 tomahawk max with 32M of ram, an SSD and a Ryzen 5 3600X. I'm putting the XFX Radeon RX 580 GTS XXX graphics card from the other machine into it, as well as some other bits and bobs including 4TB of SATA HDD's in a RAID array. Hopefully it'll be a spanking gorgeous machine afterwards, and will become my main machine.
The current main machine I'm just going to completely replace the HDD's, but otherwise downgrade it to my spare.
And then, of course, I just have to put the OS back on and reconfigure it all again.
How long this will all take I've really no idea, but hopefully I'll be back by the time the next chapter of Maquis is due to be published in twelve days.
I bloody work in IT! Why do I have to do this sort of stuff at home as well? :(
Wish me luck folks!
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