It's been a while since I posted here because I was quite wistfully estranged from enthusiast gaming/computing a few years ago (finances lol) and purchased a comfortable little notebook to work on.
I post here now because I really couldn't think of anywhere else to say this.
I just stumbled across the vestiges of my old 775/DDR2/PCIE2 gaming rig — the last upgrade I'd purchased was a Corsair H60 v1 so that I could have a semi-silent computer, for once.
It was lying in a studio where it was used it for audio production, and I'd left the chassis open to help cool it down a bit in the stagnant air.
I later found out that there had been a mouse that snuck in through a hole drilled for an air-conditioning conduit and...I don't know. Panicked? It pissed and shit on everything it could find while the studio was unoperational, so when we found the (creative. evil.) disarray, I took the computer back.
After I'd salvaged it, I was unsurprised to see it refuse to boot — since desktops have been historically temperamental and infantile little shits when it comes to long-term reliability, in my experience, at least.
So, the usual: No RAM, no GPU, stripped down, power button... wouldn't beep.
I didn't expect this, though.
As it turns out, the thirsty little f***er (f***eress?) stumbled across it and decided to help itself to some coolant.
I've had — and heard of — other animal species attempting to use technology before; bumbling cockroaches sneaking into Mac Minis on inadvertent kamikaze missions, a*****e bedbugs that had to be extracted straight from the drivers of my headphones, a spider that tried to pit-stop in the passive cooling vents of my rMBP, but this was too much.
Not only was it motivated by self-interest, it could have had the decency to chew through the water bottle that was right next to the rig.
Is PET not your fancy, sir? Do you have to chew through FEP instead? A plastic polymer connoisseur? I can't let that go. F**k you.
Well. Anyone have a spare 775 cooler? Pretty sure I need a mobo too.
On a serious note, let me know if someone has one to sell, or donate.
/rant
I post here now because I really couldn't think of anywhere else to say this.
I just stumbled across the vestiges of my old 775/DDR2/PCIE2 gaming rig — the last upgrade I'd purchased was a Corsair H60 v1 so that I could have a semi-silent computer, for once.
It was lying in a studio where it was used it for audio production, and I'd left the chassis open to help cool it down a bit in the stagnant air.
I later found out that there had been a mouse that snuck in through a hole drilled for an air-conditioning conduit and...I don't know. Panicked? It pissed and shit on everything it could find while the studio was unoperational, so when we found the (creative. evil.) disarray, I took the computer back.
After I'd salvaged it, I was unsurprised to see it refuse to boot — since desktops have been historically temperamental and infantile little shits when it comes to long-term reliability, in my experience, at least.
So, the usual: No RAM, no GPU, stripped down, power button... wouldn't beep.
I didn't expect this, though.
As it turns out, the thirsty little f***er (f***eress?) stumbled across it and decided to help itself to some coolant.
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I've had — and heard of — other animal species attempting to use technology before; bumbling cockroaches sneaking into Mac Minis on inadvertent kamikaze missions, a*****e bedbugs that had to be extracted straight from the drivers of my headphones, a spider that tried to pit-stop in the passive cooling vents of my rMBP, but this was too much.
Not only was it motivated by self-interest, it could have had the decency to chew through the water bottle that was right next to the rig.
Is PET not your fancy, sir? Do you have to chew through FEP instead? A plastic polymer connoisseur? I can't let that go. F**k you.
Well. Anyone have a spare 775 cooler? Pretty sure I need a mobo too.
On a serious note, let me know if someone has one to sell, or donate.
/rant
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