Yippie!!!! J/K

Wednesday, June 22nd, 2005 | Uncategorized

I was happy to see that my newegg order showed up today. It contained a PSU for a customer, a super quiet 120mm fan for me, and a new quiet cpu heatsink/fan. So I immediately tore apart my computer and unscrewed the current cooling device I had on it. Good idea right? Wrong.

Well I already had a non-stock cooling device on my p4. No big deal, except that the device that was on there had required me to remove the plastic part that was attached to the motherboard that is supposed to hold the cpu cooling device secure. So I figured I would still have it laying in with my computer junk.

However I could not find it!!!!! This is not exactly a part that you can just buy either. The only way I know to get one is to get a p4 motherboard. So I called around to see if anybody had a dead p4 laying around etc… but nobody that I called did ;(

Now in the process of unscrewing this I made a big mess of my computer, I mean it was disassembled all over the place and I didn’t want to reassemble it just to put the old cooling device back on, so I just left it sit there in pieces and went on to another project.

My roommate brought over a computer that was messed up from the lady that works at his shop that painted my wheels. So I decided to turn that on and see how bad it was.

Well within 10 minutes I had MANUALLY without any programs deleted over 4000 virus from the windows directory, and that was just on a quick glance. Then the real killer. This computer had multiple profiles. Which to somebody who fixes computers is murder, because each one of those profiles has it’s own temp directories etc.. So when you run an actual virus/spyware program it has to scan through all of those files. Well that is unless you can manage to delete it all first, which on this computer was just as hard of a task since it only had 128 megs of ram ;(

That was pretty much an all day project, it should be mostly fixed now, just needs a little more cleanup. Wasn’t expecting to have to do actual research to figure out how to remove some of the programs, but they were in there deep. When I got sick of it I went running, hottubing etc.. Seemed a better way to end the day than to be fixing a computer to me.

               

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