Kelly’s Diagnosis.

As I’ve said, I’m lucky I was too lazy to move Roxanne off my table. So. I removed all of the cables going to Kelly’s motherboard to see if it would make a difference. Nope. So I took Kelly’s motherboard out, and hooked it up to Roxanne’s power supply. Solid green light on the motherboard, and a boot. However, Kelly’s power supply would not boot Roxanne.

Diagnosis? Another bad power supply. Hate to say it, but I kind of took a chance on a Rosewill entirely because it had the features I wanted. The replacement will be a Thermaltake or an Antec. It’s going to be a pain in the ASS hooking up the power cables to my solid state drives again, but that aside, it shouldn’t take me TOO long to get in a new power supply and hook everything back up. So goddamn glad I have a spacious case.

Again, I’m baffled that my power supply died IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT. With the power OFF. Attached to a SURGE PROTECTOR. What the hell?

On the upside, this gives me an excuse to upgrade my RAM to a full 16 gigs. Why? Why the fuck not? 16 gigs of RAM will mean I have massive testicles. I can deal with a lot of bottlenecks, but the bottleneck that frustrates me the most is lack of memory. YOU CAN NEVER HAVE TOO MUCH RAM.

Also, I may look at power supplies that are modular. As in, you only hook up the cables you’re going to use. Makes for AWESOME cable management. Big picture, I use about half of the cables that come with a power supply.

Poor Kelly. Cross my fingers, and newegg’s famously fast shipping will grant me a functioning computer by the middle of next week.