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I think that my recent computer troubles may be the result of something "just" as "simple" as a loose connection.
Namely, the SATA connection going into my D: drive (the older drive).
That is to say, the one that I broke off literally two weeks shy of 11 years ago, but which still worked after that, when I kind of shoved the loose metal connector pieces up into the broken off plastic piece that was shoved into the end of the SATA cable itself, even though the plastic piece that broke used to be part of the HDD. And I've still been using that same drive for the past ten years now, and it has worked just fine until now. I might have just bumped that cable somehow by accident without realizing it. My computer has been acting like a piece of fuck all day today, even worse than the previous several days, and on a whim, I reached over and wiggled that cable (while the PC was running, risking electrocution and all that good shit) and viola, the computer magically started working normally again. Right now, I've got a fucking twist-tie around the SATA cable, attaching it to a cable above it, which is holding it up "in position." How long that kludge may work, I have no idea. Fucking thing might work for another 10 years, for all I know.
Still... yeah... ...I really think I'm gonna get a couple of new SSD drives anyway, and probably sooner than later. ¬_¬
(EDIT) And it looks like the CPU might be starting to run hot again, as well. Guess I'll be redoing the thermal paste shit on that before too long, again. Seems like I have to do it every two or three years or so. Might go ahead and do it over the weekend or something. (/EDIT)
Namely, the SATA connection going into my D: drive (the older drive).
That is to say, the one that I broke off literally two weeks shy of 11 years ago, but which still worked after that, when I kind of shoved the loose metal connector pieces up into the broken off plastic piece that was shoved into the end of the SATA cable itself, even though the plastic piece that broke used to be part of the HDD. And I've still been using that same drive for the past ten years now, and it has worked just fine until now. I might have just bumped that cable somehow by accident without realizing it. My computer has been acting like a piece of fuck all day today, even worse than the previous several days, and on a whim, I reached over and wiggled that cable (while the PC was running, risking electrocution and all that good shit) and viola, the computer magically started working normally again. Right now, I've got a fucking twist-tie around the SATA cable, attaching it to a cable above it, which is holding it up "in position." How long that kludge may work, I have no idea. Fucking thing might work for another 10 years, for all I know.
Still... yeah... ...I really think I'm gonna get a couple of new SSD drives anyway, and probably sooner than later. ¬_¬
(EDIT) And it looks like the CPU might be starting to run hot again, as well. Guess I'll be redoing the thermal paste shit on that before too long, again. Seems like I have to do it every two or three years or so. Might go ahead and do it over the weekend or something. (/EDIT)
