\nBattling endless PC assembly problems, but I am back on the web. Lessons learned:\n<\/p>\n
\nNever, ever buy a 1.4GHz Athlon.<\/em> Sure, the price\/performance looked good at the time. \nAll temperature measurements are with the Asus motherboard probe. Some say this \nNever, ever use Microsoft Outlook Express.<\/em> Well, ok, everyone says this. \nMicrosoft does have a very clearly-written technical article (#Q176267) \nSo if you’re using Outlook Express, you might as well scrawl your old email messages \nNever assume that if you buy a new piece of hardware, the shipped drivers are current.<\/em> \nNever assume that PC assembly and compatibility problems improve or go away with time.<\/em> \nAt this point, it’s time to start calling technical support for the various vendors. So if you’re using Outlook Express, you might as well scrawl your old email messages in cuneiform on the back of your motherboard. ‘Cause they ain’t leaving your hard drive, ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nBut I am suffering from severe overheating problems, and my system is still freezing
\nup about once an hour on average. Now that I’ve factored in the time, money, and heartache
\ndealing with this problem (I calculate heartache at roughly $20\/hour), it would have been far
\nmore efficient to go with a fast PIII. So far, here’s what I’ve tried.\n<\/p>\n\n
\nprobe is off by up to 10 degrees. Some say it’s pretty accurate. Heck, I don’t
\neven know if the temperature is uniform across the chip. Nor do I know what magic
\ntemperature will eliminate the freezing problem completely, although I hear rumors
\nthat 50 degrees is pretty close. Welcome to the mystical world of Computer “Science”.\n<\/p>\n
\nHere’s what gets me<\/em>: the total inability to
\nexport old email messages. You can’t export messages into *.PST files in Outlook Express
\nwithout getting MAPI errors. You can’t import *.PST files either, because the import
\nfunction refuses to deal with files… just “identities”. Huh?\n<\/p>\n
\non this subject, with step-by-step instructions. Unfortunately, the
\ninstructions don’t have anything to do with reality.\n<\/p>\n
\nin cuneiform on the back of your motherboard. ‘Cause they ain’t leaving your hard
\ndrive, ever.\n<\/p>\n
\nI hear the crowd saying, “Duh”, so let’s move on.\n<\/p>\n
\nSee sidebar.\n<\/p>\n
\nPerhaps they’ll be helpful. Isn’t it pretty to think so?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"