After two days in hardware hell I’m finally back in business.
It began with an apparently dead motherboard on Monday morning. Since Radio Userland is a client-side tool I couldn’t just move to my laptop and not worry about things. I had to get this box fixed. The quest involved swapping out the motherboard; buying new memory because I failed to account for the fact that the new mobo used DDR memory (but thank god memory’s cheap these days); then throwing my hands up in despair as the new hardware exhibited the same apparent symptoms as the old (no video out, no BIOS “beep” on startup).
Thanks to the amazing support resources on the Net I eventually figured out that what I had to do was hold a paper clip to a pair of solder points on the motherboard in order to reset the CMOS. I am not kidding. It’s 2003 and we’re still poking paper clips into our computers to get them to work.
In any case the computer is up again, Radio is running once more, and all I have to do is spend hours now reinstalling the rest of my life onto this new computer (I had to reinstall the OS too — the hardware transition was too much for the old Win2K installation).
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