So I got home last night and thought that I haven’t used my pc in a couple of days so I decided to go online and surf a bit.

 Computer says No! Bugger! The computer didn’t want to boot. In fact it didn’t see its boot partition or even the drives at all.

I tried a few things after covering myself in dust by pushing my overweight body under the desk to remove the sidecover of the box. Alas all looked fine apart from the Northbridge fan being stuck (although this happened a while ago and I decided to ignore it putting my faith in God and the fans that surround the area.

I replaced the leads to the to SATA drives and tried to boot again. The BIOS didnt even see the drives at all. This was concerning as they were there and were spinning up. I thought maybe the entire bus was dead so I shoved the sata cable leading to the boot drive in another socket and it detected the drive.

hmmmm. This is alarming so my detective work proceeded to check the rest of the BIOS settings. That is when I discovered that the bios had been wiped back to defaults. Ahhhh!

So I reset up BIOS as I am no stranger to the almost mystical secrets of amibios and I rebooted the system. It booted. Cool I thought.

My celebrations however were short lived as I decided to run a virus scan (just as i do when things have issues without an action to blame events on. It discovered some and then it wanted to runa  scan after a boot. I said yes ok then and then the machine booted but then proptly died again losing its settings. Bah! I reset the bios settings yet again and then ran the low level virus scan and booted up again.

It seems to be holding together now but I reckon it is on its way out. So I decided to find out what the current market is so I can ready myself to be the proud new owner of current technology and not the unhappy victim of the great old tech swindle.

hmmmmm (again). I consulted my friends Felix and Nick and we have come up with teh following spec:-

ASUS P5KR–Raid,1394            $145
Intel 775pin Q9300                $332
2G Kit-667(2x1G) Kingston x2  $ 98
Asus 512M 9800GTX              $405
Seagate SATA 750g x2          $358
Antec Nine-Hundred              $164
Antec “NeoPower” 550W        $148
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                                       $1650
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This ofcourse is the beez knees. However after the initial jubilation and many pats on the back from and to all, I realised I dont have the cash for this. So I drew up another spec (lower) to see what can be achieved  on a budget.

I came up with the following: -

ASUS P5KR–Raid,1394            $145
Intel 775pin Q6600                $245
2G Kit-667(2x1G) Kingston x2  $ 98
Asus 512M 8800GT                $242
Seagate SATA 750g x1          $179
Antec Nine-Hundred              $164

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                                       $1073
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Still not got that so I guess I am going to have to wait and save a bit.

Suffice to say I will endeavour to get the new pc after some saving.

The Reverend

Can I get an amen?
Can I get an ayyyyy men?
Can I get a hallelujah?
I said can I get a Haaa laaa leww yaaa?

The Reverend hasn’t blogged from up on high for a while. Well well well where to get started? I have looked upon the face of evil and have seen it unclean. I then realised it was a mirror so i cleaned it. I digress…

Many people have asked me when The Seen will come back. I am unsure my brothers and sisters. I will however say that it will rise again one day in the future. The Seen is sorely missed by a lot of fans out there as is The Gaskats. All I know is that when The Seen does reform I will probably incorporate some of the tunes that we wrote in The Gaskats. This is ok because The Gaskats was actually a Seen Project.

My brothers and sister’s many of you have expressed a keen enthusiasm for my building of The Dalek. I thank you all and will let you all know when it will be completed. It will have a birthday party when it is complete and you will all be invited.

Those of you interested in The Reverend’s roots (as in geneology), I have restored many photographs of my family. They are at http://www.segal.com.au go to the historical section.

That’s all for now

The Reverend