It gets worse! (by )

Well, my rough week has now reached seven days - it started last Wednesday - and is still going strong.

The late hardware arrived, but it doesn't work - with just the CPU on the motherboard (which came preinstalled in the case), and either of the two DIMMs in either of the two sockets, it doesn't start executing the BIOS. So either the CPU or the mobo is probably dead. I'll try running it with no DIMMs in; if the DIMMs are both bad (or, more likely, wrong for the motherboard) then the thing should at least complain about the memory error - assuming the BIOS is written to run the POST purely from registers, until it's tested the RAM.

Tomorrow I will order new parts, and play the combinations game until I get it working.

And on top of that, I had a horrible cough Monday and Tuesday, which I'm just getting over.

Oh, and did I mention that the dishwasher is broken, and Jean is unhappily teething, so poor Sarah is struggling with the domestic workload? There's now heaps and bags of washed and unwashed clothes all around the place, I'm out of clean underwear, the kitchen is starting to smell, and there's very few clear flat surfaces (floors, tables, worktops, chairs, ...) in the entire house.

Bleargh!

When we've been paid for the current project, I'm going to start by tidying the whole house. Then looking after Jean so Sarah can have a break. Then buying some nice books, reading them, and sleeping lots.

1 Comment

  • By Derek, Tue 7th Feb 2006 @ 5:10 am

    I'm sorry, you're a parent. You don't get to sleep anymore.

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