{"id":26,"date":"2006-07-16T10:08:06","date_gmt":"2006-07-16T15:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nynaeve.net\/?p=26"},"modified":"2019-12-13T17:43:36","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T22:43:36","slug":"nothing-a-little-cardboard-wont-fix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nynaeve.net\/?p=26","title":{"rendered":"Nothing a little cardboard won’t fix…"},"content":{"rendered":"

The box that I have been hosting this blog on has been having hardware problems lately, or so it seems. Well, that’s never a fun thing, certainly. It’s been hard-locking periodically for awhile now, enough that I can’t get anything out of it via the “Special Administration Console” (SAC) – the Windows version of a serial console. I can’t even break in with the kernel debugger when it locks up, so I’m fairly sure it is hardware related.<\/p>\n

Now, a bit of background; this isn’t exactly a new box, and in fact I got it used (for free), so I can’t really complain too much about it. But, suffice to say it has seen better days. There is only one screw<\/em> holding down the motherboard (!) and both of the NICs that the box came with, well, suck – a Netgear FA310 (the predecessor to the infamously terrible FA311) that doesn’t even have drivers past NT4, and a VIA NIC that occasionally stopped receiving traffic until reboots. Well, I’ve since replaced the NICs with good ol’ reliable 3COM 3C905C-TX-based cards and that at least stopped the NIC-related problems the box has had. (The box needs two NICs as it is my gateway system that sits in between the cable modem and the rest of my LAN here.)<\/p>\n

Anyways, there still remained the problem of the periodic complete system lockups. I tried repositioning the computer a few times (on its side, put it sitting up straight, etc), but nothing really helped. This was getting fairly annoying, as it would die every couple of days, naturally in the middle of some extremely inconvenient situation in which to be disconnected in Wow. Since the box only had one motherboard screw, I suspected that it might be shorting out against something (as is not really very well secured against the case). Unfortunately, I didn’t have any screws compatible with the motherboard\/case on hand (my other computers here are laptops). So, I set to looking for other solutions; what I came up with is none other than cardboard<\/a>. Specifically, I ended up just slipping a chunk of cardboard in between the motherboard and the part of the case that it seemed most likely to be shorting out against.<\/p>\n

Ever since, I’ve been lockup-free for at least a couple days now. Hopefully this will tide me over for now until I manage to grab some screws…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The box that I have been hosting this blog on has been having hardware problems lately, or so it seems. Well, that’s never a fun thing, certainly. It’s been hard-locking periodically for awhile now, enough that I can’t get anything out of it via the “Special Administration Console” (SAC) – the Windows version of a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nynaeve.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nynaeve.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nynaeve.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nynaeve.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nynaeve.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.nynaeve.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":696,"href":"http:\/\/www.nynaeve.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions\/696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nynaeve.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nynaeve.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nynaeve.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}