Snow Day!

I get Protestant Work Ethic points for trying to go to work today, don't I? Alas (or yay), the road was so bad that triadruid and I working together were only able to make it .9 miles from the house before getting stuck, getting stuck again, witnessing all the other people getting stuck in vehicles much more equipped to handle snow than Asmodeus (which is to say SCHOOL BUSES), and turning around.

On the bright side, Asmodeus started without any difficulty this morning.

On the other bright side, I'm at home all day. IM me or something. ;)

Snow Day!

I get Protestant Work Ethic points for trying to go to work today, don't I? Alas (or yay), the road was so bad that triadruid and I working together were only able to make it .9 miles from the house before getting stuck, getting stuck again, witnessing all the other people getting stuck in vehicles much more equipped to handle snow than Asmodeus (which is to say SCHOOL BUSES), and turning around.

On the bright side, Asmodeus started without any difficulty this morning.

On the other bright side, I'm at home all day. IM me or something. ;)

And I always tell people a monkey could do hardware... I guess I'm not much of a monkey

Anybody local got a spare SATA drive sitting around? I've built triadruid's new PC, and for some reason which is not clear to me, the BIOS does not believe in the hard drive which is installed. I have checked relevant BIOS settings, switched out the SATA cable, turned the SATA cable 'round (even though they are allegedly omnidirectional), plugged the cable into a secondary site on the mobo (when it failed to work in the primary site), and generally done everything I can think of short of offering it virgin sacrifices.

So, if you know something about this sort of thing and have an intelligent question to ask ("Is the computer plugged in?" is not an intelligent question - please don't respond if you don't know anything about hardware), or if you have a spare SATA drive lying around that you could loan me so I could test to see if the drive itself is crapped out, I'd like to hear from you.

And I always tell people a monkey could do hardware... I guess I'm not much of a monkey

Anybody local got a spare SATA drive sitting around? I've built triadruid's new PC, and for some reason which is not clear to me, the BIOS does not believe in the hard drive which is installed. I have checked relevant BIOS settings, switched out the SATA cable, turned the SATA cable 'round (even though they are allegedly omnidirectional), plugged the cable into a secondary site on the mobo (when it failed to work in the primary site), and generally done everything I can think of short of offering it virgin sacrifices.

So, if you know something about this sort of thing and have an intelligent question to ask ("Is the computer plugged in?" is not an intelligent question - please don't respond if you don't know anything about hardware), or if you have a spare SATA drive lying around that you could loan me so I could test to see if the drive itself is crapped out, I'd like to hear from you.