Hot Damn It. In preparation for
reinstalling NT on my home
box, I open the case to see what all I have in there. I'm kind of hoping I have a
hard drive I had
forgotten about, but
no such luck. In fact, I discover the
CPU fan isn't fanning.
How long has this been going on?!? After
20 minutes of cooling, the heatsink is
cool enough to touch. So I'm off into the
freezing goddamn cold to
wrangle a new CPU fan. Of course, now I have to shop drives, because with a new hard drive, I could reinstall NT fresh and have my previous installation for reference.
PC Warehouse in
Rochelle Park doesn't have the 20GB drives they advertised, but they do have
Canon BJC1000 printers for $60
(after rebate). I resist the
temptation; maybe next month.
"I'll take one." I continue north on
SR 17 to
CompUSA. "I'd like to
buy a vowel, because,
O my God!" There are 40GB drives here. The
clerk watches me carefully as I
stare at them and
chuckle aloud.
Access denied. The CPU fan installs smoothly, but of course the drive
has to hassle me. While ascertaining that my
motherboard won't recognize the
full capacity of this
UltraDMA/66 drive, I accidentally
render unreadable the drive where I currently have NT installed. So much for a
working reference... Fortunately, I can beg a
Promise UDMA/66
controller card that will support the
gi-antic drive. Unfortunately, it will probably be a week before I receive it.
Tomorrow is another day...