Computer Went Kaput

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My computer's water cooler died so my computer can't function right now without major heat issues and throttling. No coding for me until I get it fixed, unfortunately. Also, no video until then. I actually had plans on doing it yesterday evening and that's when it broke.

Computers always seem to die just before you are going to work on them. It's a curse I tell ya. My CPU and/or GPU fan is throttling pretty well lately, a sign that I need to get in there and clean out the dust. There, I did it, just cursed myself. Expect me to be offline for a few days too.

Ohh... I've been there, almost 20 years back, and it forced me to choose only laptops from that point forward. I had a desktop towercase computer I thought was awesome and I vowed it would be the rest of my life in personal computing with that thing. A year went by which everything was just fine, then suddenly BSOD from WindowsXP. I wound up taking that computer to the shop five times, at 40 dollars at least a trip on taxis. No charge in the shop, however, but by the fourth time it was getting pretty embarrassing. Once I took it to the shop because the soundcard wasn't seated correctly and stupid Windows choked on that.

Only in the first visit to the shop, it was agreed that I had to become involved opening the case and cleaning out dirt from the motherboard, and never, ever using a fan in a fairly-dusty room to help cool the CPU. (It was Intel Pentium 4 full-blown at 2.0GHz, was surprised after I purchased it because the order originally said it was the slightly older 1.8GHz model.)

I did almost nothing major with this computer, only play games and used MAGIX software to create music. With QuickBASIC I had written a program that created a playlist of songs from CD's, to make sure there were no duplicates and to keep songs from the same record as far apart as possible.

I still have the 80GB hard disk of that computer housed in a Maddog case I bought at CompUSA... but these days it's coming up with read errors galore.

About five years later I passed by the neighborhood of the shop and discovered they were no longer in business. Their name was something like "Computer Advantage". :/