New motherboard installed
I never got around to blogging about this when it happened, but here goes; When I first got my new computer, the power-supply exploded (literally), shooting flames, sparks and loud, angry noises at everything in its immediate proximity, taking two fuses and a sizable portion of my nerves with it. Unfortunately, this was after I had hooked everything up, and it gradually became clear that the motherboard (or CPU or RAM, I didn’t know for sure) had sustained some damage.
The symptoms were fairly perculiar; whenever there was a lot of sustained traffic on the machine, either disk I/O or a lot of video card activity, the machine would spontaneously reboot. (A short side note; backing up your system is a great source of a lot of disk activity. Great time for a crash, eh? No? Bingo.)
Anyway, yesterday I finally got my replacement motherboard, and it has been performing nicely so far. Due to the strange nature of the errors I’ve been seeing I’m not regarding myself 100% safe yet, but things are looking good so far. Whee. =)